Manual medicine

Manual Medicine includes elements of fasciology, functional osteopathy (the gentle techniques from the field of fascial, visceral and craniosacral osteopathy), physiotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine. Manual therapies have the goal of restoring an inner balance in the body. In the treatments, I mainly work with methods of fasciology, acupressure and massages. I can influence the entire fascial web with fascia treatments. Fixations can be released and pain can be relieved. Positive long-term effects on immunological health can be promoted and physiological functions can be improved, so that nervous system, circulation, lymph flow and blood circulation function without restriction. Weak points of the body can be compensated. Disease-causing processes are changing and well-being is growing. We can stimulate the self-healing of the patient and provide the best conditions for the prevention of diseases and maintenance of health.

However, I was also confronted with the limits of conventional medical possibilities, especially with regard to chronic diseases or autoimmune diseases.
The treatments are often limited to symptomatic therapies for already manifest diseases without regard to holistic relationships in the body. Unfortunately, this can lead to relapses and chronic manifestations of diseases.
In the long run, conventional healing methods can be fraught with significant side effects
Ideally, conventional medical methods and manual therapies are supplemented with each other, which can achieve the best possible result for the patient.

Medicine as a whole

Examples of when manual medicine can help your pet, manual therapy for dogs, cats and other small animals :

• Lameness and or back pain
• Chronic diseases or susceptibility to certain diseases (especially digestive problems, but also respiratory infections or skin problems)
• Autoimmune diseases
• After operations for faster recovery
• In case of misalignment to reduce secondary problems
• After traumatic experiences to normalize the nervous system

On request, I will be happy to give you instructions on how to perform physiotherapeutic exercises and massages with your animal, so that you can positively accompany the rehabilitation of your animal and contribute a lot to her/his recovery yourself.

Integrative trauma work and de-stress

Trauma is the excessive strain of the organism to deal with a deeply stressful situation. The resulting post-traumatic disorders and blockages can be both physical and mental in nature and extremely restrict a living being.

We assume that wild animals are able to deal with trauma in a natural way. Their organism regains balance through self-regulation. In humans and domesticated animals, this process is often no longer possible. They get stuck in a permanently increased level of stress of the nervous system, which can have far-reaching health consequences and significantly negatively affects the joy of life. As a consequence of the unity of body and psyche a trauma never only affects the psyche or only the body.

Often in animals, a physical trauma due to injuries, accident or abuse is at the beginning and fears as well as uncertainties develop from this. Due to the permanent state of stress, somatic (physical) complaints also occur, which often cannot be classified in conventional medicine. With manual therapy, I work both on the effective structure of a tissue (for example, a muscle or organ), with the stabilising and hanging system (fascia, ligaments, vertebrae) and with the energy of the tissue (micromovement, blood circulation, lymphatic flow, nervous system). This allows me to harmonize the nervous system and the flow of energy, so that traumas stored in the body and associated emotions are stimulated to process. The organism is supported in this way in the direction of self-healing.

We know today that the biology of stress affects the tissues and organs of the hormone and immune system as well as the intestinal mucosa. *
A so-called stress axis leads from the brain (hypothalamus with pituitary gland) to the adrenal cortex.

The anchor for trauma treatment and de-stress (stress reduction), healing is the breath.
That’s why I create deep relaxation in animals through massages. The animals breathe calmly and deeply, their pulse rate as well as their release of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline decreases.
The physical homestasis (state of equilibrium) can thus stabilize again.