ADHESIONS AND BEYOND : with Isabel Spradlin
Jen Owen is a Nurse Pracitioner in Portland, OR with over 26 years of unique knowledge in health care. She specializes in integrative/functional medicine, herbal medicine, pelvic care, and mind-body awareness. It was such a pleasure to get to get to interview her about internal pelvic care and more! We spent the first half of … Continue reading …
One of the things that can be most difficult to grapple with when recovering from abdominal distress is the change in how the nervous system acts. Whether you’ve had surgery or not, different kinds of trauma can affect the nervous system in various ways. From digestive changes to neuropathy to new and unexplained pains or … Continue reading …
(Interview starts at the 1:15 mark.) I have been working with a lot of moms during this past year . . . helping them with painful or numb c-section scars, digestive changes, changes in their pelvic floor, and more. As a part of this work, I’ve had a chance to get to know Dr. … Continue reading …
There are certain commonalities among the folks who seem to have the most success in fully resolving their abdominal adhesions, pain and distress. Usually there is not just one thing they are doing, but a combination of things over time that helps to get the full resolution most people are seeking. Of course, I always … Continue reading …
I know that bowel obstructions – mainly, avoiding them – are a really big deal for a lot of you. So, to that end, I interviewed one of my favorite abdominal teachers about this very important issue. As I always feel about these interviews with other practitioners, I am so deeply grateful to Marty for … Continue reading …
For a long time, this topic of diet and nutrition has been my achilles heel – especially when it comes to abdominal adhesions and other abdominal distress. Over the years, it has become so clear to me that the way that diet and nutrition affect people is deeply individual. There is no one-size-fits-all. For most who … Continue reading …
“Nag, nag, nag…” My students sometimes toss this out in class when they’re trying to tease me about my repeated attention to detail. But secretly they love it! Right? Anyway, here are a couple of things that I talk about very often as they are soooo easy to incorporate into everyday life for the overall … Continue reading …
Amazing! This timed perfectly with last week’s Abdominal Adhesions Newsletter about the pelvic floor. (I’m sure YI did that on purpose. 🙂 ) Anyhoo . . . Wow, this is SUCH a great article. The agni sara abdominal exercise is such a necessary and fundamental part of a yoga practice and it is discussed and taught … Continue reading …
For some reason this always cracks me up (and not always in the funny way, sometimes it’s in the Lady Macbeth wrenching of the hands way). I think I’ve just been working with adhesions for so long it’s hard for me to understand the idea of using drugs or surgery to break up what is … Continue reading …
When I was growing up, my parents subscribed to Prevention magazine. At some point, the magazine told them to eat a banana every day for optimum health and feel-goodness throughout the day. And they did. For years, they both ate a banana every day and swore by the health benefits they felt from it. It … Continue reading …