PEACE OF MIND & CALM HEART
  • Peace Project
    • Travel
    • Daily Peace Challenge
    • Tiferet Journal Poetry Essays Workshops and more
    • Trees, Healing, and You
  • Self-Care
    • Free Book Thursdays
  • Mistaken For A Man
  • Jewish Poetry
    • Heschel and King Marching to Montgomery A Jewish Guide to Judeo-Tamarian Imagery
    • Music Carrier of Intention in 49 Prayers
    • Jewish Music
    • Torah Parsha >
      • Achrei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16-18): Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
      • Metzora: Leviticus 14:1–15:33 Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
      • Pekudei: Exodus 38:21-40:38 Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
    • Jewish Books
  • Brain Health
    • Kimberly Burnham Bio >
      • Consulting Services
    • Brain Health >
      • Brain Health News
      • Memory Exercises
      • Parkinson's Disease Exercises
      • Parkinson's Walking Online Class
      • Ataxia / Balance Exercises
      • Memory & Dementia Exercises
      • Pain & Consciousness
      • Spokane FAVS
      • Fibromyalgia Solutions
      • Neurotheology
    • Consulting Services
    • Client Intake Form
    • Free Walk Better Video Class
    • Blog
    • Amazon Offers
    • Vision >
      • Color Poetry for National Poetry Month Challenge
      • Vision Exercises for Basketball Players
      • Macular Degeneration Exercises
      • Keratoconus Exercises
      • Color Vision Meditations
    • Health Coaching >
      • Immune >
        • Multiple Sclerosis
      • Circulation Issues >
        • Heart Attack Recovery
        • Stroke Recovery
  • Writers
    • Poet's Corner
    • Authors
    • LGBTQ Memoir Writers
    • Publish Your Memoir This Year
    • Children's Weekly Writing Class
    • Consultation Services
    • Color Vision & Words Blog
    • Peace Words Blog
    • SpokaneFavs Blog
    • Raising Consciousness Now Blog
    • Community of Humanity Blog
    • Children Write >
      • Kid's Year Long Writing Class
    • Published! >
      • Medium Blog
      • Life Consider It a Joy by Diane D. Gunning
      • The Dragon Garden
      • Beyond The Now Essays On the Heart of Enlightenment by Jason Shulman
      • Take Your Cookies When They're Passed by Jean Galt Coblents
      • Finding Santa by Paul Burnham
      • Division of Labor by Bruce A. Labenz
      • About the Dybbuks: Jewish Historical Fiction from Pittsburgh's Hill District by Sue Lindenberg McClelland
      • Keys of My Life: A Memoir by Carla Olman Peperzak
      • My Greece: Mirrors & Metamorphoses by Ambika Talwar
      • The Healing Heart by Barbara Meyers
      • Love Among the Gods: Myths of Relationship by Shirley Kiefer
      • The Year of the Poet Monthly Book
      • United World Movement For Children (UWMC)
  • Garden
  • Poetry
  • Link Page
  • New Page

​Palpating Circulation Rhythms for Manual Therapists by Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine)

9/4/2017

0 Comments

 
Integrative Manual Therapy practitioners, Craniosacral therapists, Osteopathic Manual Therapists and many other practitioners use their hands and palpation skills to find areas of dysfunction and treat them. Recently further validation of palpable rhythms in the body, which can be used to assess the circulatory system have been published.
 
In a 2006 article entitled "Recording the rate of the cranial rhythmic impulse." in the Journal of the America Osteopath Association, Nelson, Sergueef and colleagues noted, "the rate of the cranial rhythmic impulse can be obtained by both palpation and instrumentation."
 
The cranial rhythmic impulse has been demonstrated to be synchronous with the Traube-Hering oscillation, measured in blood flow velocity. Their study demonstrates that physicians tend to palpate the cranial rhythmic impulse and Traube-Hering oscillation in a 1:2 ratio.

[Full Article] 
 
--Palpable Vascular Motilities and Joint Circulation on LinkedIn Pulse https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140610021752-39038923-palpable-vascular-motilities-and-joint-circulation

Palpating and Improving Circulation with Manual Therapy by Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine)

            Trauma, compression, atherosclerosis can all contribute to decreased abdominal blood flow, which can contribute to back pain, radiating shoulder pain, dysmenorrhea [menstrual dysfunction], cysts, hematomas [pooled blood] and cancers of the abdominal organs. Circulation problems related to trauma are especially common among athletes. (Holt, J. 2004)
            Hypovascularized sites or areas of compromised blood flow are particularly common in the celiac artery. Stenosis of the celiac artery, a branch off of the aorta (the main artery leaving the heart), is found in up to 24 percent of the general population. Many of these people have no symptoms. (Park, 2001)
            The most common cause of celiac axis stenosis or a narrowing of the celiac artery is external compression on the artery, according to Park, 2001 in "Celiac axis stenosis: incidence and etiologies in asymptomatic individuals." Atherosclerosis is the second most common cause. Often the compression is caused by the median arcuate ligament, a ligament that comes off of the respiratory abdominal diaphragm. Because the ligament is attached to the diaphragm, the tension on the celiac artery can be release on inhalation or breath in. The arcuate ligament starts as a thickening of the connective tissue of the psoas muscle at the lumbar spine and hip. The medial arcuate ligament goes from either side of the first lumbar vertebrae to the respiratory abdominal diaphragm. A compression in this area can lead to decreased blood flow and back pain.
            Massage and manual therapy is often used to decrease pain and tension in the area of the low back, spine, hip muscles, including psoas and the respiratory abdominal diaphragm. Breathing exercises can also help decrease tensions in this area. The most common symptoms of decreased blood flow in the abdomen is back pain and abdominal pain right after eating. Vomiting is another common symptom.
            Caution is wise when treating the abdomen as the most common reason for find an asymptomatic stenosis or narrowing of the celiac artery is a scan or diagnostic procedure for some kind of abdominal cancer, liver, stomach, gallbladder, or pancreas. The literature is not clear about whether the lack of blood flow proceeded or in any way influenced the development of the cancer.
            Manual therapists use palpation to feel for areas of tissue density, temperature changes and rhythms reflective of circulation. They can use this diagnostic information to treat the soft tissue area of dysfunction. Advanced Strain and Counterstrain (Wheeler, L. 2004 in Massage Therapy Journal) and Myofascial Release (Weiselfish-Giammatteo, S., J. B. Kain, et al. 2005. Integrative manual therapy for the connective tissue system : myofascial release) are two ways to decrease tensions and normalize circulation through the tissue.
            In 2000, Arutiunian in "Effects of manual therapy on pain reflex syndromes and various hemocoagulation parameters in patients with ischemic heart disease after surgical treatment", recommended manual therapy after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS). The researchers concluded, "the addition of manual therapy to the complex of rehabilitation measures in coronary patients early after CABS eliminates postoperative anginal attacks in 70% cases." A year earlier, researchers noted, "pressure on acupoints can significantly influence the cardiovascular system" (Sudmeirer, 1999). A placebo controlled study using a color doppler sonograph, found that reflexology, positively influenced blood flow in the kidneys. Researchers found a "significant decrease of the resistive index during foot reflexology in the verum group indicates a decrease of flow resistance in renal vessels and an increase of renal blood flow."
            A 2006 study on vascular surgery concluded, "low back pain was improved by merely performing treatment for the vascular system and might provide support for the presence of vascular backache." (Takeyachi and Yabuki, 2006). Another study recommended manual therapy as part of an intensive rehabilitation program. They concluded, "intensive rehabilitation in combined treatment is shown to improve external respiration function, central hemodynamics, tissue blood flow, sleep, appetite, healing of bedsores, and to enhance cough reflex." (Kachesov, Kartavenko, et al. 2004).
 
—Originally published at Burnham, K. (2008). "Palpating and Improving Circulation with Manual Therapy." Health and Goodness.  healthandgoodness.com/Therapies/imt_circulation.html.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine)
    860-221-8510 phone and what's app. Skype: Kimberly Burnham (Spokane, Washington) 
    [email protected]
    View my profile on LinkedIn
    Free SkillShare Classes

    4 Month Brain Health Coaching Package $600 includes: 8 one hour session (twice a month) plus ... Details Here

    Regular Rate $120 per hour

    Free 20-30 minute consultations available.. Call 860-221-8510 PST or email [email protected] for an appointment this week.

    Tip Jar
    Thank you.

    Archives

    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    April 2014
    November 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    February 2013
    March 2012
    February 2012
    October 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    January 2011
    September 2007
    August 2007

    Categories

    All
    30 Inspirational Ideas To Live Your Best Life Now
    5best
    ABI Magazine
    Academia.edu
    Acupressure
    Acupuncture
    Aleph
    Alternative Medicine
    Alzheimer's Disease
    American Academy Of Religion
    American Schools Of Oriental Research
    Andrew Aloha
    Angie Azur
    Anthologies
    Anxiety
    Aquired Brain Injury
    Autonomic Nervous System
    Avatar
    Balance Exercises
    Basia Alexander
    Believe In A Ray Of Hope
    Blinking Exercises
    Blog Column
    Blood Flow Exercises
    Blood Flow To Eyes
    Blood Pressure
    Blue Morphos Butterfly
    Book Club
    Books A Million
    Boundaries
    Brain Exercises
    Brain Health
    Breast Cancer
    Buddhism
    Cancer
    Cataracts
    Celine Cloutier
    Chemotherapy Side Effects
    Chiropractic Treatment
    Chocolate
    Christian
    Christine Kloser
    Chronic Pain
    Circadian Rhythms
    Circulation Exercises
    Client Intake Form
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
    Cognitive Therapy
    Collapsing The Wave
    Color Therapy
    Color Vision
    Columns
    Communication
    Complementary & Alternative Medicine
    Complementary Medicine
    Consciousness
    Cornea & Corneal Dysfunction
    Council On Foreign Relations
    Cranial Rhythm
    Cranial Sacral Therapy
    CranioSacral Therapy
    Daniel Tigner
    David Rock
    Dementia
    Describing Exercise
    Diabetes
    Digestion
    Dopamine
    Doreen Fulton
    Energy Medicine
    Environment
    Eyes
    Eyesight Recovery
    Facebook
    Faith And Healing
    Fatigue
    Fibromyalgia
    Free Report
    Gallbladder Meridian
    Giving Voice
    Grants
    Green Tea
    Guided Imagery
    Haiku
    Hands-On Self-Care
    Happiness
    Happy New Year
    Hazon Cross USA Bicycling Ride
    Headaches
    Healing
    Healing Through Words
    Health Blog
    Health Coach
    Health Coach Training
    Hearing Exercises
    Home
    Human Rights
    Huntington's Ataxia
    Hypnosis
    Immune Function
    Immunotheology
    Information Medicine
    Inner Child Press
    Inspiration
    Integrative Manual Therapy
    Integrative Medicine
    Interfaith
    Interfaith Resources
    Interview
    Iran
    Iraq
    Islam
    Islamic State
    Jewish
    Jewish Renewal
    Jewish Values
    Jim Conroy
    Joint Health
    Journal Article
    Keratoconus
    Kimberly Burnham
    Kosher Food
    Kurds
    LDS
    Lens Of The Eye
    LGBTQ
    Life
    LinkedIn Pulse
    Liver Function
    Low Back Pain
    Macular Degeneration
    Manual Therapy
    Margo Royce
    Marshall Rosenberg
    Massage Therapy
    Matrix Energetics
    Medical Research
    Meditation
    Meet The Neighbors
    Memory Exercise
    Mesothelioma Cancer
    Middle East
    Mindfulness
    Mormon
    Morphic Field
    Motivation
    Motor Imagery
    Multiple Sclerosis
    Music
    Music Therapy
    Muslim
    Nausea
    Neil Harbisson
    Nerve Whisperer
    Neurobiology
    Neuroscience
    Neurotheology
    Non-Violent Communication
    Nutrition
    Organic Food
    Osteopathic
    Osteopathic Manual Medicine
    Pacific Northwest Region Of The American Academy Of Relgion
    Pain Relief
    Palpation Exercises
    Parietal Lobe
    Parliament Of World Religions
    Pattern Recognition
    Pattern Recognition Exercise
    Peace
    Peace Poetry
    Pearl Of Wisdom
    Pebbles In The Pond
    Peripheral Vision
    Placebo Effect
    Poem
    Poetry
    Poetry Contest
    Poets
    Protein And The Eyes
    Psalms
    Psychiatrists
    Psychological
    Quantum Physics
    Rabbi
    Raising Consciousness Now
    Reality
    Red
    Reflex Points
    Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
    Reform Judaism
    Reiki
    Religion
    Remembering The Future
    Rhythmical Exercises
    SCARF Model
    Self Care Exercises
    Self-Care Exercises
    Sensational Medicine
    Sharon W Giammatteo
    Sikh
    Sivana Spirit
    Sleep Exercises
    Social Media
    Society Of Biblical Literature
    Soft Tissue
    Special Needs
    Speed Up Vision
    Spirituality
    Spokane Favs
    Spokane Radish Project
    Spokane Washington
    Story Contest
    Stress
    Sufi
    Support Groups
    Sustainability
    Sustainable Food
    Synchronizers
    Syria
    TED Talks
    Thalamus
    The Burnham Review
    Tibetan
    Tibetan Eye Exercises
    Torah Poetry
    Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Transforming The World One Person At A Time
    Trauma
    Traumatic Brain Injury
    Trees Healing And You
    Tree Whisperer
    Tu B'Shvat
    Turkey
    Unattanium
    Vascular Motilities
    Vegan Food
    Veronika Tracy Smith
    Video
    Vision Exercise
    Vision Recovery
    Vision Story
    Visual Perception
    Visual Processing
    Vitamin B
    Vitamin C
    Walking
    White Matter
    Word Cloud
    World Peace
    Writing Teazurs
    Year Of The Poet
    YouTube

Proudly powered by Weebly
Photos from TrotterFechan, OnTask, BLM Alaska, Eric Kilby, Theo Crazzolara, wuestenigel, _Pek_, Kiwi Mikex, VinothChandar, Dean Hochman, eLife - the journal
  • Peace Project
    • Travel
    • Daily Peace Challenge
    • Tiferet Journal Poetry Essays Workshops and more
    • Trees, Healing, and You
  • Self-Care
    • Free Book Thursdays
  • Mistaken For A Man
  • Jewish Poetry
    • Heschel and King Marching to Montgomery A Jewish Guide to Judeo-Tamarian Imagery
    • Music Carrier of Intention in 49 Prayers
    • Jewish Music
    • Torah Parsha >
      • Achrei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16-18): Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
      • Metzora: Leviticus 14:1–15:33 Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
      • Pekudei: Exodus 38:21-40:38 Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah
    • Jewish Books
  • Brain Health
    • Kimberly Burnham Bio >
      • Consulting Services
    • Brain Health >
      • Brain Health News
      • Memory Exercises
      • Parkinson's Disease Exercises
      • Parkinson's Walking Online Class
      • Ataxia / Balance Exercises
      • Memory & Dementia Exercises
      • Pain & Consciousness
      • Spokane FAVS
      • Fibromyalgia Solutions
      • Neurotheology
    • Consulting Services
    • Client Intake Form
    • Free Walk Better Video Class
    • Blog
    • Amazon Offers
    • Vision >
      • Color Poetry for National Poetry Month Challenge
      • Vision Exercises for Basketball Players
      • Macular Degeneration Exercises
      • Keratoconus Exercises
      • Color Vision Meditations
    • Health Coaching >
      • Immune >
        • Multiple Sclerosis
      • Circulation Issues >
        • Heart Attack Recovery
        • Stroke Recovery
  • Writers
    • Poet's Corner
    • Authors
    • LGBTQ Memoir Writers
    • Publish Your Memoir This Year
    • Children's Weekly Writing Class
    • Consultation Services
    • Color Vision & Words Blog
    • Peace Words Blog
    • SpokaneFavs Blog
    • Raising Consciousness Now Blog
    • Community of Humanity Blog
    • Children Write >
      • Kid's Year Long Writing Class
    • Published! >
      • Medium Blog
      • Life Consider It a Joy by Diane D. Gunning
      • The Dragon Garden
      • Beyond The Now Essays On the Heart of Enlightenment by Jason Shulman
      • Take Your Cookies When They're Passed by Jean Galt Coblents
      • Finding Santa by Paul Burnham
      • Division of Labor by Bruce A. Labenz
      • About the Dybbuks: Jewish Historical Fiction from Pittsburgh's Hill District by Sue Lindenberg McClelland
      • Keys of My Life: A Memoir by Carla Olman Peperzak
      • My Greece: Mirrors & Metamorphoses by Ambika Talwar
      • The Healing Heart by Barbara Meyers
      • Love Among the Gods: Myths of Relationship by Shirley Kiefer
      • The Year of the Poet Monthly Book
      • United World Movement For Children (UWMC)
  • Garden
  • Poetry
  • Link Page
  • New Page