The Healthy Gut Podcast Ep.33
Visceral mobilisation with Alyssa Tait
If you are experiencing pelvic pain alongside your gut issues, did you know that the two can be linked? This week Alyssa Tait joins Rebecca to talk all about visceral mobilisation. Alyssa Tait is a physiotherapist and naturopath with a special interest in abdominal and pelvic pain disorders, the gut and urogenital issues. Alyssa and Rebecca talk about the reasons why chronic pelvic pain can have an effect on your gut’s effectiveness. They also look at what the risk factors are for adhesions and how visceral mobilisation can help to relieve the pelvic pain that these cause.
In Today's Episode
In Episode 33 of The Healthy Gut Podcast, we discuss:
✓ What to expect from visceral mobilisation treatment
✓ What to expect from visceral mobilisation treatment
✓ What the risk factors are of abdominal surgeries and how these can make your gut issues more complicated
✓ What sort of pelvic floor issues you could be experiencing if you have adhesions
✓ Whether to treat your SIBO or your adhesions first
✓ How a mobility function test can help to assess any issues with visceral tissue adhesions constraining movement
✓ Why it’s important to go at your own pace, making sure that you are listening to your body, during visceral mobilisation treatment
✓ How internal treatment works and what it’s particularly useful for
✓ What gadgets/tools can be used to assist with bowel opening
✓ Why just treating issues in the rectum isn’t enough and why it’s important to  investigate gut  issues from the mouth down
✓ What you can do to help your body limit adhesion issues if you have abdominal surgery coming up
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Resources mentioned in today's podcast
✓ Alyssa’s website
✓ Alyssa’s Facebook
✓ Alyssa’s Twitter                                 Â
✓ Visceral Mobilisation Practitioners site
✓ The Barral Institute
✓ Sue Croft’s book about abdominal surgery recovery
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Alyssa Tait (B Phty, Adv Dip Naturopathy, Grad Dip Health Sci (Nutrition Medicine)) is a physiotherapist and naturopath with a special interest in abdominal and pelvic pain disorders, the gut and urogenital issues. Her initial interest in gut health stemmed from her postgraduate studies in physiotherapy, focusing on constipation and other bowel disorders in incontinence and prolapse. She then completed studies in nutritional medicine and naturopathy, and she is currently completing her Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Her management of gastrointestinal tract dysfunction includes the use of visceral mobilisation, a gentle manual therapy that aids the body’s ability to release restrictions and unhealthy compensations that cause pain and dysfunction.
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Hi,, i messaged you before about my Fusion L5S1 in 2011 and adhesions from this..
Also had an ablation in 2007..
How can Help with all this..
Please touch base when you are free..
Thanks
Hi had fusion L5S1 in 2011… low back pain getting worse and now i have SIBO… can this be related the adhesions..Thanks
Hi Marilyn
Any surgery can cause adhesions and internal scar tissue, so yes, your disk surgery could have caused scarring which could cause pain.
Rebecca