ACE's and physical therapy

Hi Fred,

While I don't know of any "case-studies," as a physician I've seen many patients in whom pain is not well controlled, and muscles are stiff in a setting of unaddressed ACEs. Take a look at what the sympathetic nervous system does to muscle tone and how activities that decrease this (and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system) like deep breathing, yoga and relaxing stretches (nothing too aggressive). If patients (and practitioners) understand WHY the body is doing what it is, they may be more likely inclined to follow the required steps to get the body back into balance.

Let me know if you have further questions or thoughts

Thanks.

Hi Fred, Sounds like the missing link here might be their understanding of  somatization-- how to diagnose when that is the problem, (using metaphor language is one way,) and what to do about it. I taught a 1/2 day workshop for PTs a few years ago and as per a show of hands, NONE of them knew when unresolved emotional trauma was holding the patient's physical pain or dysfunction in place. The healing component that I taught the PT class and which is also in a 90-minute video of a CE class on my website, ("Beyond Reason") is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, aka "tapping" which in my experience (20 years) is the safest, simplest, non-drug, non-retraumatizing trauma healing technique on the planet.  

Hi Sue:

Thanks for that information. I will look into EFT.

Hi Sue

Is that video available and how can I watch it

Hi Neville, 

That video was retained by the PT who sponsored the class, but there are others. Go to my YouTube channel (Sue Hannibal) and click on "Reboot the Brain Without Pain." That was a continuing education class I taught for Sovereign  Health, an international dual-diagnosis company. We also have the International Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and I know there are colleagues in South Africa. (See "find a practitioner") www.energypsych.org. 

Sue