Our Approach
Trauma Recovery Clinic Edinburgh, London
Trauma and traumatic stress can affect us both physically and psychologically. Often the two are interlinked. At the Trauma Recovery Clinic we use two broad approaches, combining them where necessary:
Nervous system and psychological / emotional work:
Somatic Experiencing®:
Somatic Experiencing® is an approach which works to restore the body’s own natural self-regulating systems for dealing with traumatic events. It does not necessarily involve hands-on bodywork or talking about your experiences, but allows you to enter your autonomic (unconscious) nervous system to help your physiology and nervous system to re-regulate and return to a state of ‘relaxed awareness’.
Where multiple members of the same family need Somatic Experiencing® Anne Cheshire works with Joolz Flynn, director of the Pain Recovery Clinic, who is an experienced Somatic Experiencing® practitioner in Edinburgh.
“Anne’s treatment was highly effective with amazing results. Relieved to find something that works.”
MJ, Edinburgh
For pain conditions we use the following approaches:
Myofascial Release (muscle – connective tissue – release):
Connective tissue, or ‘fascia’, becomes adhesed – literally ‘stuck’ – within the body when there has been a physical injury, or the body tenses in response to emotional or traumatic stress. We release the fascia to enable movement and reduce pain.
More about Myofascial Release and trigger point therapy
Trigger point therapy:
Trigger points are areas in muscle tissue which are painful to touch and refer pain to other areas in the body. We search for trigger points and release them along with the adhesed fascia surrounding them.
More about Myofascial Release and trigger point therapy
Craniosacral therapy:
Craniosacral therapy is a type of Myofascial Release which focuses on the fascia through the central nervous system, releasing and balancing fascial sheets within the cranium, the meninges, and further down the spinal cord, the length of the dural tube. At the same time the craniosacral rhythm (the production and draining away of craniosacral fluid) is balanced and freed through gentle manipulation of the cranial bones. Although this is an extremely light touch technique, the therapist seldom applying more than 5g weight, corresponding roughly to a British 20p piece, all bony structures within the cranium can be released and balanced this way.
Visceral manipulation:
The gentle release of adhesed fascia around the organs – liver, intestines, kidneys, stomach, bladder etc. When fascia is adhesed around the organs, this restricts their movement and can interfere with their functioning. It can also cause pain and other problems, for instance with digestion, causing IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Scar tissue and adhesions release:
Scarring and adhesions will occur in the body after surgery or wounds, inflammation or burns. Scar tissue release involves the gentle release of adhesions and excessive scarring.
More about scar tissue and adhesions
Other advanced massage techniques:
We employ other advanced massage techniques such as soft tissue release, harmonics, neuromuscular re-abilitation, positional release, specific RSI approaches and stretching techniques.
More about Myofascial Release and other bodywork approaches
Pilates movement:
We will teach you Pilates – based movement and stretches to do at home.