Breeze Therapies

Remedial Massage

There are many advanced remedial techniques for pain relief, tissue therapy and joint problems.

These will be personalised, for your specific areas of concern.

There will be pre-assessment of various aspects of structure, balance and function.

Likewise there will be re-assessments - at various intervals - of structure, balance and function.

The results of these re-assessments will inform subsequent decisions about what and how I need to work on next. This is an ongoing consultative and dynamic process.

Remedial work is focused on your problem areas, but is also likely to include work on the actual root-causes of your problems - which may be in a different locations.

This includes the remedial techniques using the many different types of reflexes derived from Feldenkrais and Ortho-bionomy as well as Muscle Energy Technique (MET), Trigger Point Release and Cranio-Sacral Therapy (CST) in its several forms.

NOTES: The word reflexes (above) does not refer to the discipline of Reflexology which can involve strong and painful pressure on targeted points of the feet, hands - as well as elsewhere on the body.

I studied reflexology early on, and as part of my diploma - but I no longer use it.

Likewise: Deep Tissue Massage (DTM) - which uses forceful pressure on the soft tissues (muscles tendons, ligaments and fascia - I deprecate in most cases - see next paragraph. Also, finding a trigger point can be temporarily painful, but the VR1 treatment of it is not painful.

Painful Treatments

I have formed the view that - where rehabilitation is the goal, due to accident, injury or perhaps after surgery (typically scar tissue is the problem) - some therapeutic value may be gained by using painful means. But generally, pain is counterproductive because it results in tissue tightness due to a contractile response by the nervous system. This is the opposite of relaxation! Relaxation occurs when the nervous system calms, and relaxation facilitates massage. Relaxation helps you regain better muscle-tone and improves pain-free movement in joints such as the ankle, knee, hip, sacrum, spine ribs and neck.

As an aside...

• That is why I do not believe the aphorism: "No pain, no gain!"

Volitional Release (VR123) works by turning down the already tense muscle (spasm), rendering simple massage much more effective and without any acute pain. Is massage ever simple?

Additionally, treating the plates of the skull/cranium, together with Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD), are the focus of the Perrin Technique and Cranio-Sacral methods. There is no force involved in these treatments.

Neuro-physiological aspects

Explore transformative aspects of neuro-biology to enhance your mental and physical well-being.

This encompasses how to develop new habits, or re-develop forgotten habits (postural or mental habits).

For example, this might involve the re-development of improved habits of breathing, resulting in better upright posture and consequently reduced loading on your musculo-skeletal system and consequently more energy for life!

Some of the techniques of this section are implicit in the Remedial Massage section. There is some overlap.

For example, we might use the reflex methods of Ortho-bionomy, Feldenkrais, VR123 or Cranio-Sacral Therapy.

It is common for people have limited access to the diaphragm breath (the tummy breath). Also common is poor chest breathing which is hampered by tight inter-costal (between the ribs) muscles. Those muscles, along with the diaphragm, largely perform breathing in, and out. Likewise, the neck muscles are vital aspects of the breath - they aid in elevating the sternum of the chest, while breathing in. These sorts of problems result in shallow breathing and generalised under-performance of your body and mind

Habit:

The role of habit, and how to evolve yourself past it, is fundamental to postural improvement and is part of vital self-care.

The role of mental/emotional factors is likewise fundamental to posture, and other aspects of life-in-the-body.

Volitional Release (VR123)

Volitional Release (VR123) is an innovative protocol - developed by Stuart Young.

You will be empowered to use it in any therapeutic situation - and in your vital self care.

That is - you will be able to use it to magnify the effectiveness of any type of therapy - as well as using it in vital self-care at home or at work.

There are three levels of the VR protocol: VR1, VR2 and VR3.

VR123 involves using an easily understood process involving some fundamental insights into how to make choices. Choices - conscious choices, made in such a way as to affect your subconscious mind. Those choices (or Volitions) can be brought into effective use for releasing subconsciously held patterns, such as:

• Physical tensions in body tissues. (I just can not relax!)

• Historical decisions (in remembered, or even forgotten, events) which may be blocking your intrinsic self-healing processes. "Forgotten" events are remembered by the subconscious.

• "Stressors" are not the problem they are assumed to be. It is usually the (emotional) decision about them that is the problem. It is that decision, belief, reaction or memory which creates the stress and not the actual event itself.

• You can heal, or disarm emotional states, memories and even trauma which previously seemed to be beyond conscious repair.

• Habits, including any type of addiction can be successfully addressed with VR123.

• And finally, you will be able to use your VR123 skills in Vital Self-Care at home.

• Also, you can use VR123 whilst undertaking any other type of therapy. Your therapist, whatever their mode of therapy, does not need to know you do this. It is silent work!

  Their not knowing means they can just get on with it - while you get on with it!

And the new therapy unique to Breeze ...

The Perrin Technique

for Long Covid, FMS, CFS...

and other post-viral conditions.

UK osteopath Raymond Perrin has evolved the Perrin Technique. It is a research-backed UK protocol - (the topic of his PhD was: The brain and the flow of cranio-sacral fluids) - for the beneficial treatment of many types of post viral conditions, such as:

Long Covid, Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS),Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) - and others.

His treatments are not completely new.

The most fundamental part of his technique is known in Australia as Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD).

MLD has been commonly used world-wide, but particularly in Europe, to treat post operative lymph problems arising, particularly when lymph nodes have been removed, but is also useful in treating many other difficult conditions.

The Perrin Technique has a self-care component, done at home, which further facilitates your wellness program.

It works by supporting and accelerating your own natural immune response.

The specific Perrin Technique includes both:

• Therapy done in clinic...

• Instruction in Vital Self-Care at home.

Stuart Young is trained in MLD and has studied Perrin's professional Manual, intended for osteopaths and physiotherapists, and together with the procedures recommended by Dr Perrin, you can be confident to try the Perrin Technique at Breeze.

Perrin-type MLD treatments are very gentle, and of quite short duration. Typically around 20-30 minutes.

And a new technique from the UK...