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Advanced Visceral Manipulation: The Brain
Prerequisite AVMTB: Listening Techniques 1; An Integrative Approach to Evaluation (LT1), or having attended VM6 prior to 2008 Prerequisite AVMTB2: Advanced Visceral Manipulation: The Brain (AVMTB)
Advanced Visceral Manipulation: The Brain (AVMTB)
The brain has always fascinated the medical community and
scientists. The various investigative tools of the brain have made exceptional
progress. For example, functional MRI can highlight not only structural, but
also functional problems. Even so, the brain has remained a mystery despite all
the research for which it has been a subject.
Jean-Pierre Barral has been interested in the brain for over
forty years. After treating many people with head trauma, stroke, brain
diseases, and psychomotor disabilities, he has developed original techniques to
help these patients. Barral demonstrates how to work simply with what is
considered the most complex organ of the human body—the brain. He addresses the
brain and its associated nervous and vascular connections as the ‘content’ of
the human head, which, characterized by its bony and membranous enclosure, is
regarded as the ‘container.’
The course is organized into two parts—a structural approach
and a functional approach:
--The structural approach is aimed at the vascular, nervous,
meningeal, ocular, barometric, and cerebrospinal fluid circulation systems.
--The functional approach explores the sense of smell,
hearing, sight, language, coordination, proprioception, emotions, etc.
The material assists manual therapy practitioners to view
systemic diseases in a new light. This includes discussions about such
conditions as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Multiple Sclerosis.
Such pathologies and the limitations of manual therapy with regards to helping
people with these conditions will be discussed, as well as how a manual
approach to the brain may transcend these limitations and help alleviate
symptoms that people are experiencing due to these diseases. Barral shares how precise
manual therapy may encourage the central nervous system to self-repair and thus
may help people with certain conditions. The practitioner will also learn ways to
help people who have had a stroke or ictus.
Because the brain is inherently plastic, the tools that the
practitioner will learn enables him or her, in Barral's own words, to help restore
'inner bridges' within the brain, which is vital to the life of those facing
difficulties.
In short, the principle underlying this work is the striking
of a balance between the ease of minimum manual effort and the finesse of
maximum manual precision.
Advanced Visceral Manipulation: The Brain 2 (AVMTB2)
Jean-Pierre Barral continues his exploration and treatment in
this second class level.
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