Shiatsu

[wobblypat]

To complement my

Yoga I am now having Shiatsu, a kind of acupuncture without the needles. I don't really understand the theory, but if my treatment had gone no any longer, I would have been asleep!

[SheffieldJane]

Good luck!

Mind you if I lie anywhere quiet, comfortable and ambient I am asleep ( for free).

[Soraya_PMR in reply to SheffieldJane]

Snap!

[Insight329 in reply to SheffieldJane]

SheffieldJane, that made me laugh. Thank you for that dose of medicine.

[Charlie1boy]

Hi,

I have had shiatsu throughout the two and three quarter years I have had PMR.

It doesn't cure the PMR , or I should say the inflammation, but it has definitely helped with other aches and pains which are not PMR related.

And yes, it is very restful - there has been more than one occasion when I have fallen asleep. I nearly always feel better after a treatment session.

Good luck

Paddy

[wobblypat in reply to Charlie1boy]

Looking forward to my next session. The effects of my last session were largely cancelled out the next day by having to drive to see my rheumy on my scooter, in the pouring rain, fed the resident vampire, then returned home, in the pouring rain.

[elbik]

wobblypat, it's good to know some PMR victims are helping themselves via alternative treatments. I don't have Shiatsu within travelling distance but use Mindfulness and talks with my subconscious to help healing, plus a manual physio who's getting rid of my pain and today I've started using herbs and following advice from a herbalist.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to elbik]

I like Bowen therapy - not for the PMR but for the add-ons. I also like therapeutic massage but it is too much for some people. I'm lucky enough to get it through the hospital and free!!!!! I am in Italy though...

[SheffieldJane in reply to PMRpro]

PMRPro, I find your posts so guiding and useful and try to follow the advice therein. I went to a local woman who purported to be a Bowen therapist. I laid on a therapy bed and she did some movement of hands over my body, then disappeared from the room for a while, this was repeated a couple of times with no explanation of the therapy. That was more or less it and she left me there to recover from whatever it was. I came away perplexed and unchanged.

What should I have expected?

Confused from Sheffield and relieved of an eye stinging fee.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to SheffieldJane]

Only a couple of times? It should have followed a fairly logical pattern - and yes, they do do a movement on a set of muscles and then leave you for about the same amount of time. A treatment should take about an hour, sometime a bit more but rarely less, and the basis set of movements would have covered most of your body. They start at the beginning - and advanced stuff comes later.

However, I'm not impressed she didn't explain what she was doing.

This explains some of the how and why

healthnorth.co.uk/treatment...

and this group in the Durham area is an excellent one - who provided services for Durham University Hospital Pain Clinic for a couple of years until NHS funding issues put paid to it. Joanne Hewitt on that site was my Bowen angel! While I appreciate that it is a bit far to go there for you, you might find their free phone consultation helps you understand whether your practitioner was a real one or one of the "I can make easy money" variety. Because they are out there needless to say. Maybe they could recommend someone - because Paula Esson (who I think is the head of the practice) teaches Bowen courses. And IMHO she is particularly brilliant as a practitioner.

[SheffieldJane in reply to PMRpro]

She barely touched me, some of it seemed to be having her hands hover over my shoulders for instance. I was confused when she left the room. I will look for someone else where there can be some semblance of a therapeutic relationship at least. For all I knew she'd gone away to text someone.

Thank you, she was so near my home, too good to be true I expect. Thanks for the link.

I would have paid double for a tangible result.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to SheffieldJane]

Oh no - there is always actual physical contact, albeit through clothes. They make a rolling or sliding sort of movement - for want of a better way to explain it. It isn't reiki or crystal therapy!!!! And in advanced moves it can be quite firm pressure.

Does this woman claim to be affiliated to any association? Because it could be alleged she is working under false pretences...

[SheffieldJane in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks PMRPro I found her by googling perhaps she thinks she's developed healing powers. 😡

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to SheffieldJane]

Give Joanne's lot a call and ask if they know of anyone who trained with Paula. Someone from your neck of the woods would go to Newcastle, you'd think. If it is Joanne you speak to - say Eileen Harrison sent you

[wobblypat in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks Eileen.

I see Bryan on Friday and will ask him then.

[wobblypat in reply to PMRpro]

I'm sorry, I can't help you with info about the Bowen therapy. Perhaps it was the eye stinging fee which neutralised any good effects of the therapy?

I consider myself very lucky. My Shiatsu man is in his third year of training, and as he isn't fully qualified only charges £10 an hour, AND he comes to the house!

[wobblypat]

Glad to find someone else who falls asleep easily, it's waking up that is the problem! 10 hours a night and two in the afternoon is the norm.

[elbik in reply to wobblypat]

wobblypat,I don't actually fall asleep easily! I'm an "iffy sleeper" probably because of being a very rural community midwife then had a lousy menopause! But I use relaxation to go into Alpha (as before sleep) learning how from a book. Don't try to wake up - I spent 3 weeks asleep before diagnosis of PMR, I had no choice - had to go with it, essentials were done but not much washing - too much effort!

[wobblypat]

Thanks for your reply. Sounds very similar to me before being diagnosed. I couldn't even hold my head up, and slept about 22 hours per day. Poor, patient OH was at his wits end.