Having established that I have very tight hip flexors as I was curious if anyone thought this could explain the sensation of my adominals being pulled in and thus cramping my digestive process. For, I have experienced a sort of sickness feeling that my doctor assures me is not internally caused.

Thanks,
Nick

Hard to know how he/she can be so certain about this.

In any case, stretching the hip flexors is always a good thingóso ti rule out their involvement in your problem, try that.

cheers

KL

This sounds a bit like my problem. I have left sided lower abdominal pain and although there is a colon bowel element to it it is also muscular / trigger point pain. It feels like someone is inflating a ball inside my colon and when I manually squash the ball the pain receeds

I will add to the above that all backwards bending (and particularly the passive sort over a curved surface) is very likely to assist as well.

cheers

Kit

I'm not so sure about it. Jean-Pierre Barral told us about the connection between these two. Look for Visceral Manipulation Therapy. I expect this will help to solve your problem.

Hi,

as a Remedial massage therapist I have been told by many clients over the years that manual work, stretch and spray trigger point work and stretching to the psoas hes 'cured' their 'irritable bowel syndrome' - which I was unaware of at the time and was only explained later when the client noticed a cessation of symptoms. Psoas has a strong working relationship with the sympathetic nervous system, and is known to interfere with digestive processes (refer to Front to Back' by Aileen Jefferis from Adelaide). Having a taut band running through the abdomen has to produce some sort of problem. Trigger point therapy and good quality contract / relax stretching may indeed make a difference

Good luck


Michael Howse

Wiebe J Zweerts de Jong Wrote:
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> I'm not so sure about it. Jean-Pierre Barral told
> us about the connection between these two. Look
> for Visceral Manipulation Therapy. I expect this
> will help to solve your problem.

Which bit were you not sure about? Visceral Manipulation Therapy's effects can often be duplicated by targeted stretching, as can the effects of many other modalities—not that getting this manipulation would not be of benefit too, of course. Together, likely to be even more effective. In any case, I stand by my two posts.

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Kit Laughlin
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