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How Holistic Pain Management Works?
“Are you someone who has gone through some kind of physical pain? Here in this educational video, Dr. Manon Bolliger who is a naturopathic physician explains holistic pain relief. She is in favor that whenever there is pain it's because of physical and emotional aspects and so holistic pain management is a better way of dealing with it. Her holistic pain management includes assessment, naturopathy, acupuncture and lifestyle changes.
Moreover a research paper described various holistic pain management approaches including overall physical functioning of the body and psychological aspects.
Learn more about holistic pain relief techniques from NourishDoc.
Reference
Shealy, Cl. (1980). Holistic management of chronic pain. Topics in clinical nursing. 2. 1-8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16298439_Holistic_management_of_chronic_pain”
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hello everyone well pain management most of us have have gone through some type of opinion whether it's you know whether it's some kind of a shoulder pain or knee pain but what what are the holistic ways that we can manage it that is the topic of discussion today with Manon Bolger she has 30 years of experience as a naturopathic physician helping people like us get over stress and pain management welcome so much thank you well thank you for having me here and um I think it's really the main difference with holistic pain management is that we're not just dealing with shutting up the body in other words if the body is in pain we're not just finding a way to just make it quiet we want to get to why it has this pain so we're we're digging deeper into the whole person and the thing is there's no such thing as a part of the body that you know is the the sum total of you that's in pain it's you're in pain manifesting in your shoulder or your neck or the trauma from the car accident which could have a physical component which is often the case with physical pain but it also has an emotional component and so what happens many times when you know people for example have a car accident and that's a common pain that you need to manage and deal with they they go to their Doctor Who says okay you know you're we you need to see somebody who does some sort of physical therapy usually at least in Canada you go to see a physiotherapist and they're working the muscles The Joint the rehabilitating before dealing with the trauma to the person so what happens is they don't heal very quickly it may take a year two years three years so in my practice and now I'm retired but in my practice I would see people that I'd say well what happened and they said well I had a car accident and what I recognize is that people must deal with the trauma of the shock the trauma of what happened and that's not typically being addressed with people who go with physical therapy because they're just working on the body and then if you go you know and get help with just emotional therapy then they're not working with the fascia which is really the the whole circulatory system of the body it allows everything to flow and communication throughout the body so that the body can rewire and heal so I guess what I'm saying when people are in pain you've got to find out what came with it what what was happening to you at that moment and usually there that's where we start finding the answers so what you're saying is uh whatever the Real Pain could be knee pain I had a shoulder pain but this is not only the physical part of it there's also the emotional part that has to be done together so that the pain can go away easier right that that's what I'm understanding correct and you know and of course there's a spectrum so sometimes if you have a shoulder pain we just do a little bit of work on the shoulder and it might be fine but many times when people are in chronic pain it's because there was some sort of quick fix approach that didn't deal with the whole person and that's what makes it different in a holistic view of the person we deal with anything that triggers and sustains pain so what would be your approach we want to tell the viewers you know if they are suffering from any pain it could be for any reason uh what would be approach like they should see us physiotherapist as well as see counseling or emotional or or Diet I mean what would be the framework that's what we want to understand yeah so I mean the framework I use is called Bowen therapy you know I'm the CEO of Bowen college so it's it's definitely my my pet passion but the reason it's so important it's a therapy that where less is more so we're not massaging we're not um cracking things we're not like families can do this to each other it's actually very gentle very effective and very simple so but it has a context so all the practitioners who have been trained through Bowen College do a general assessment of what's going on for that person the etiology where when it happened and also are aware of the mind-body connection so that we might use aspects of Chinese medicine uh all of that what's available for us to know what is the best way to treat that person and one of the things and why why I'm so excited about Bowen college is because we need a physical approach in so many cases but we don't want to be working on the body we want to be working with the body in other words it's it's an it's a bit more interactive and it allows the body to reset so we're not like playing God like we're gonna fix this we're giving the body information with the understanding that it's not actually broken it just needs rewiring and we allow the body to reset itself but in so doing so many clients or patients or family members depending who who's doing it have a renewed sense of trust and and love for their own body's ability to heal so it's really it's profound work and yet it's so simple okay so can you give us an example uh like of a client that I just want to make sure we tell the viewers a little bit more kind of a specific as to what what are the steps so uh a little bit about any client that you did for example acupuncture plus the naturopathy for this diet that's kind of the level I would like us to uh at least uh share with our time with our viewers okay so so let's take a a patient who has um a diagnosis of um tortically so they they their neck is injured from a car accident that would be a a great example now as a naturopath I might look at like you you've mentioned other therapies other modalities like Homeopathy like acupuncture like all of these other things but my emphasis in my practice was Bowen therapy and the reason I work with bone therapy it's it's because the understanding the philosophy behind that is that the body has the blueprint to self-repair if you can you can trigger it if you can allow it and speak to it so a person for example that has um Whiplash that type of injury and it came from a shock because they weren't expecting the sudden bumping of the car and maybe they had their child in the car and their they were you know very surprised shocked and also in fear for their their life because at first you don't know how bad the accident is if they would come and into my practice I would do kidney move which the kidneys are the organ of fear in Chinese medicine so I would do in Bowen therapy the kidney move to allow the fear to dissipate I might work on the respiration by doing a move on the on the diaphragm so that they can take that breath many people say it took my breath away well we can give the breath back and and doing it structurally with the autonomic nervous system so we always we're always in trying to be in balance between our sympathetic and parasympathetic system but it's the parasympathetic system that allows the body to heal that's why you know breathing meditation all of these wonderful other um self-help techniques work they put you in parasympathetic same with bone therapy but it happens during the treatment so I would then do the reboot treatment deal with their kidneys address their neck and typically within two to three visits they would be finished they would not have any more neck issues and they would be like relieved their their anxiety is gone there they wouldn't have any residual side effects and and I know this because I've seen so many patients let's say after a car accident that didn't do bone therapy they went for physio they went for counseling because they had night night dreams and um and they were worried about the they have flashes of car accidents and but they couldn't heal and so that's why I can kind of compare to the people that come um for bone therapy how this can really speak to the body and allow the body to heal very quickly so that would be an example of a whiplash and what one would do okay well we just wanted a quick 10-minute session today thank you so much yeah and anything else you'd like to add I'm I just like to keep it very succinct and and uh you know so that people can digest the information rather and we are launching uh our whole platform where people would be able to uh go through a lot of content at their own pace yeah I'm trying to think what else I could add um is it worth me mentioning them the Mind Body reboot the the part where sometimes you know what I'll say it you can you can just not use it if it doesn't make sense okay um so the other aspect is that so I gave an example of something that truly is physical but has it mental emotional components and um sometimes it's the other way around it will manifest physically but the cause is mental emotional and a very common example is um is you know when when patients wear their shoulders like earrings right you know you see them you see it in their structure they're not at ease they're not comfortable they're not how could they be breathing properly you know their their body doesn't feel right right but it's not ultimately the body's problem it comes from a Mind Body Connection so um so another workaround another door there's so many doors you can open to allow the healing process but another door is is bringing to consciousness what the body is holding unconsciously so the body's holding the stress and you don't know why but when you bring it out and you can you're trained to be able to speak about it then um it's like an Insight oh yes that's that's what's going on and you learn then to reposition to get a better posture Etc but it may be because of something undealt with you know so that's an example sure you know for us to understand what why the holistic approach is so important for taking care of pain management uh well uh thank you so much for for being with us to all the viewers keep supporting us we are over 220 000 I've stopped counting but uh we are launching a platform with all of your support and and of course all the expert support so stay tuned and and have a great rest of the week thank you Namaste thank you very much
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