From Chris Gauntlett;

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"Completing NM1 and NM2 has taken my Barral practice to a new level on a range of different fronts. I now have a more comprehensive understanding of which structure I am treating and why. Learning to treat the nervous system is an essential complement to working with the viscera and has enabled me to achieve more effective and longer lasting clinical results. The precession and lightness of touch required to effectively assess and treat the nerves has also had the follow on effect of improving my overall technique and assessment skills when working with the viscera."

 

Here are Chris's Case Studies - NM1 and NM2 to read and enjoy.  www.resiliencemt.com.au

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Chris Gauntlett

Clinical Myotherapist

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FROM KRIS ESGUERRA;

 

After completing NM1 - I was so excited to have done this technique (Crainofacial Junction) with one of my patients a couple of weeks ago! I had a very clear head listening and the local listening was sutural and took me anteriorly, slightly on the left. The maxillae and frontal bones initially started to compress and then sheared in opposite directions before finally unraveling and releasing. It's interesting how different it feels when you do it with someone just to practice the technique vs on someone who really needs it- it just feels "right"

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Kris Esguerra

Osteopath

 

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From Phil Patton;

 

Throughout my career I’ve always wanted to do my best for my patients. However, at times, despite putting in a huge amount of effort, I still found myself being less effective than I hoped. This has lead me to study many different manual therapy curriculums throughout the world with the hope to just help my patients a bit more.

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After discovering Visceral Manipulation I realised that there’s a large part of the body which is ignored by the musculoskeletal-focused modalities. When we start to become aware of the significant influence that the organs have over our patient’s experience (pain, movement, proprioception, control, etc.), we can become truly holistic practitioners.

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If you find yourself wanting to be more effective and to be able to offer your patients something more, I’d recommend you do a Visceral Manipulation course and discover how treating the organs can help your patients.

 

Phil Patton

Master of Sports Physiotherapy

BAppSc (Physiotherapy)

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From Liz Dunn;

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I come from a ‘traditional’ musculoskeletally-based taught background, the same as a lot of Physios. I’ve done the same pummelling, mobilising, stretching as many manual therapists, as well as wondering why patients come back with the same complaints over time. When I did my first Barral course, it opened a whole new exciting world of how we can help our patients with looking at the body as a whole, and which structures are actually causing the main dysfunctions. Here, Jean-Pierre Barral teaches us how to find and first treat the restricted areas (be it organ, nerve, muscle or joint) instead of the symptomatic and compensating ones. This amazing work has entirely changed the way I treat as a Physio, as well as look at the whole body, including anatomical and physiological aspects I hadn’t thought about since Uni! The amazing and often far-reaching results speak for themselves, and most importantly assist our patients to regain movement and pain-free lives. Do your patients and yourself a favour, and do a course to find out!

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Liz Dunn

Physiotherapist

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From Carine Dougherty;

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Barral Courses

The  Barral institute courses cover a range of topics from Visceral Manipulation, to Neural, and Vascular topics, however they all complement one another. It helps not to have too much information in one go, and breaking down the work into different topics allows students to learn part of the work while practising precise skills. The more practise you get applying the work, the more you realise how much the human body inter-reacts as a whole. The courses utilise the precise skills, and links discovered and tested along the many years of practise of Jean Pierre Barral, Alain Croibier and their close collaboration to their peers. This has enabled the Barral Institute to develop a method of understanding, of how to be specific in what we do by listening to the patient’s body and interactions, and finding the causality of problems as opposed to treating the symptoms. If practitioners are bored doing the same thing at work day in day out, need inspiration, and want to know how to further help clients, these courses might be what they need to develop a deeper understanding of might be going on, and why they are perhaps not getting the results they want.

• Carine Dougherty (Osteopath)

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Alan Croibier courses in Australia

 

I attended two courses taught by Alain Croibier in Australia. He is such an amazing person to learn from – not only because of his work experience, but also his humbleness and patience to help other people, while transmitting his knowledge. Each time I attend a course I learn something new, not only about different ways of inter-acting with a type of tissue, but also about myself – depending on my posture, the way I utilise my body, the way I listen to the patients’ tissues, and how I make sense of it. Alain’s courses also gave me a whole new dimension of understanding of the human body. The more I think I know about something the more I realise it is more complex and there is still so much more to understand. Attending these courses also enabled me to reflect on my work, see what I can modify to be more specific, play around with concepts and ideas, look for the causality of a problem as opposed to treating the compensation or symptoms, and review what I know about anatomy, and the complexity and variation of the human body. These courses have helped me to be more specific in my practice, and to help a wide variation of clients, that previously, I may not have known where to start off from. 

• Carine Dougherty (Osteopath)

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New Zealand Conference Feedback

 

The Osteopathic conference was an amazing event, which brought different minds together to express their thoughts and understanding of helping people via different life experiences and skills. Alain Croibier spoke at the conference about the background of the Barral Institute’s work, what has led the Institute to where it is now, and how it can best help patients and transfer knowledge down to its peers. Over time the Institute has developed a model with a co-link in between seven sub-systems, which all inter-react with one another. These sub systems are also influenced and governed by a person’s emotional, psychological, social and hormonal state. This model enables us to understand and link the inter-relation of the human body and its complexity, how to best determine the causality of problems as opposed to treating only the symptoms. The courses offered by the Barral Institute helps to break down the complexity of the human body into different sub categories to better understand the link and connection around the body. 

• Carine Dougherty (Osteopath

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