Ivanhoe Massage, Craniosacral and Bodywork in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Beauty, cosmetic & personal care

Ivanhoe Massage, Craniosacral and Bodywork

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 416 846 940

Address: Stanley St, Ivanhoe 3079 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.craniofascial.com

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24.01.2022 Umm, nothing in first column, but two in second and one in third column. Should I re-title my Australian Cranio/fascial Therapy School? Worrying (not)

23.01.2022 Open over the holiday period Experienced bodywork incl. several massage styles, gentle joint release and craniofascial therapy for connective tissue release Low back pain, sciatica, back and neck stiffness, headaches, stress... Priv. health ins. rebates See more

22.01.2022 Are you missing summer and feeling a bit /lot creaky? I can't offer an outdoor massage in the sun, but I have a nice warm room with a heated table

21.01.2022 I'm pro-yoga but good technique and process is so important. By fluke my first teacher ever happened to be Shandor Remete, doyen of Iyengar yoga in 80's Melbourne. Even though my own stretching is very spasmodic (no pun) these days, I still remember his teachings. My bodywork practice with yoga teachers, however, has taught me that stretching has limited benefit for tendons though, and that cross-fibre techniques like Bowen are beneficial.... Yoga teachers' tendons don't feel much different to the average, despite all the stretching. The moral of the story? Do both. Brief self-therapy before every yoga session, especially the adductor tendons. Now, to only follow my own advice ...

21.01.2022 Open Again* As a remedial massage therapist, Victorian Dept. of Health & Human Services current advice allows me to resume practice if the case is 'critical'. If you need treatment and haven't traveled recently or have 'flu symptoms, then give me a call.

20.01.2022 New client limped in, older man who has Restless Leg Syndrome, but never any high quality bodywork before. Hmm, quite a session with masses of twitching and joint releases. Right at the end I discovered the scar from his back (sacroiliac joint) operation 5 years before, where his hip bone had been chopped to make more space for his sciatic nerve. It is bizarre and tragic that different parts of the healthcare system are so disconnected and rely on the client to figure it out or stumble on something helpful.

18.01.2022 The School has found a home

17.01.2022 Sequential unfolding. I've given it a name for the purpose of this post. I don't recall hearing or reading much on this topic, so I wanted to share it here, prompted by a client this morning. I hadn't seen her for a year, but we have had many sessions over many years in the past.. Recent acute low back pain after lifting was her prime issue. My somatic memory registered that her pelvis felt different to her usual compensation pattern when I was passively palpating her sacrum ...and ilia. There was a distinct change from one state to another better state with each application /variation of technique. This is very familiar to me but today there was not just one overlay of compensation with its (false?) indications of what was wrong. As we worked with her pelvis for the entire hour+ I would regularly reassess, as I usually do, with subtle leg traction using the 'tablecloth' analogy to help locate the restriction pattern at that time. Hope I'm not losing you. Each time her ilia levels were changed, but still not balanced. There is more to it than this, but let's stick just with the ilia in the transverse plane (meaning were each hip the same distance from her head?). We went through perhaps five quite distinct phases, or 'layers', of her patterns during treatment. This was the most 'layers' I have ever consciously encountered. It had been a year, so her body had built up a few 'layers'. To bring this description to a single point: if I had assessed her only once at the beginning, I would have been working in the wrong places and her hips would 'never' had leveled up. This is how I work.

15.01.2022 I'm not that into strengthening in my practice, most of which is about connecting mechanically isolated areas, loosening and restoring physical balance as a starting point, so that subsequent strengthening from natural use can positively affect a balanced body, not further distort a twisted, compressed body.

13.01.2022 "The claim that foam rollers could help with sore muscles , made by a team in 2015 ... was based on a study of just 8 people". A pair of researchers developed a statistical method called magnitude-based inference (MBI) in 2006 .. which quickly became popular with sports scientists ... Papers using this technique, which are confined almost exclusively to sports science, have been banned by top journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise "The sad thing is that such 'findings' are seldom replicated and soon pass into the minds of coaching consultants as 'scientifically proven' when the evidence is super weak". Liam Mannix The Age newspaper 16/11/19 (edited)

12.01.2022 bleach massage now available grammatical distancing observed sanitizer massage with referral... crossed fingers therapy specialist

08.01.2022 Someone else's words: Here are a few statements (that are supported by current evidence) Massage can feel good. Massage stimulates the nervous system in ways that can trigger a variety of changes throughout the body. Massage is recommended as a first-line intervention for low back pain (before any pharmaceuticals) by the American College of Physicians, Massage can help mitigate the symptoms of anxiety.... Massage can help mitigate the symptoms of depression. Pretty short list huh? Most of what I do is not supported by acceptable evdence at this time. In the meantime, do I 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'? Is it unethical to continue to practise as I do, or is it unethical to deny clients what I do because of evidence problems? Lack of evidence does not mean evidence of lack. You clients aren't deluded when you choose treatment. Luckily you don't have to justify your choices.

07.01.2022 Late Valentines Day advice