What is Visceral Manipulation?
French osteopath Jean Pierre Barral's clinical work with the viscera (organs) led to the development of a specific form of manual medicine: visceral manipulation (VM).
All of our organs are suspended within the musculoskeletal system via specific fascial connections. Visceral osteopaths recognise this relationship and use their palpatory skills to assess the motion of the viscera and its fascial attachments. Gentle techniques are then applied to release any tension present.
Visceral Manipulation and Osteopathy
Visceral manipulation is a specific technique used to treat and improve the fascial attachments of your viscera (organs).
Eastern Osteopathy has four practitioners highly trained and expertly skilled in the area of Osteopathic Visceral Manipulation. Mia, Nicole, Meg and Kathryn will apply visceral manipulation along with their osteopathic principles and philosophy to create a holistic treatment plan according to the needs of each individual patient.
Meg Withers is also trained in the area of nutrition, and combines this knowledge and understanding with her osteopathic and visceral manipulation training to help her patients achieve their health goals. Meg has a particular passion for helping patients of all ages with with concerns in the areas of GUT health and constipation.
Mia Di Ciccio is also trained in pilates, pelvic floor rehabilitation and diastasis recti (abdominal separation). She combines this knowledge with visceral manipulation to help improve the body's pressure management system; which can lead to reflux, prolapse, incontinence and diastasis. Mia also enjoys using visceral manipulation to help improve the function of the musculoskeletal system.
Nicole Cukierman has a passion for treating children and perinatal women. Her knowledge of visceral manipulation allows her to help patients with their preconception care and postpartum after either a vaginal or cesarean birth. She also enjoys using her knowledge of visceral manipulation to assist patients of all ages with digestive issues, post surgery and in circumstances where dysfunction is not arising from the musculoskeletal system. Nicole loves how visceral manipulation aligns with holistic osteopathic principles of the whole body being interconnected.
Kathryn Johns has been using visceral manipulation as part of her holistic osteopathic practice for 20 years, with training in both internal and external visceral facial techniques. She has completed numerous courses in the areas of obstetrics, the urinary system, male and female reproductive system, fertility, respiration and the gastrointestinal system. Kathryn is no longer taking new patients in the visceral manipulation field, unless their main complaint involves the urinary system or required internal rectal or vaginal work - if this is the case we recommend you book a pelvic health consultation. Kathryn has a long wait time for initial consultations and does recommend booking to see one of the other osteopaths trained in visceral manipulation to start your journey healing prior to your appointment with her.
Our osteopaths all have similar training, and gather regularly to grow and learn from one another, they have a collaborative approach and regularly refer to each other based on the individual needs of the patient.
