East West Integrated Body Work

Theory

The ideas and techniques of Eastern and Western medicine can be very different and are often practiced as entirely separate disciplines. However, with sufficient training and experience it is possible to combine the insights and skills of different healing traditions to provide a dynamic, integrated approach to physical therapy.

Treatment

The meridians and points of Chinese medicine can be used to balance the flow of “Qi” in the body, while stretches and trigger points from Western physiotherapy are stimulated to relieve muscular aches and pains.

Tongue, pulse and abdominal diagnosis techniques from the East can provide important medical information alongside results from modern Western blood test.

Oriental Five Element Theory and concepts of energy centers can be used to understand the relationship between mind, body, and emotions while cranio sacral techniques can be employed to release stored emotion from physical tissue.

Traditional ideas relating to the balance of the yin and yang, hot and cold, excess and deficiency can be used to help formulate a nutritional plan that is also informed by Western nutritional science.

From a traditional Eastern perspective medical syndromes are identified by investigation into the state of specific functional and energetic relationships that are said to exist between the organs and systems of the body. This knowledge can be synthesized with modern Western anatomy, physiology and pathology to provide a deeper understanding of health.

East West integrated bodywork combines shiatsu, cranio sacral therapy, sports therapy (injury treatments), massage and nutritional advice.