by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Patients seeking care for pain want to know whether it is likely to improve or run a chronic course, not just its cause and how it might be relieved and managed. But it is difficult for the doctor to give a clear and reassuring answer. Korff and Dunn, in their book,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
As covered previously, the autonomic nervous system is comprised of both the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. In chronic stress, the sympathetic system, through several hormonal and neural pathways, maintains a state of chronic stress. While...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
We’ve seen over the last several posts that the standard explanations for pain related to whip last, tending to identify it with lesions and their effects, is increasingly challenged in the research literature. Few insightful studies demonstrate successful...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
In my most recent posts I considered the brain science on pain and how it indicates that a patient’s perception and experience of pain cannot necessarily be reduced to assessment of specific lesion events or their presumed effects. Let’s get into this a little more...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my last post we looked at the brain science on pain. Among the facts we observed was that there were two distinct pathways associated with pain. I have a couple more thoughts to add on the brain science front before we turn to a consideration of what this means for...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
In my last post I discussed the difficulties pain posed for effective assessment, given its subjective character, and how addressing pain first was the prime directive in my practice. Perhaps the most effective way of addressing the multifactorial,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
We started our first steps toward me telling you about my healing journey with MS. As preliminary to that, it was necessary to remind you of a couple important things. Including that each person’s journey will be individual. There are no cookie cutter solutions....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Over the next several posts, I want to tell you the story of my personal journey and life-changing encounters with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). First, a disclaimer: I hope that I have made it clear that just as there is no such thing as the “right” life journey for...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In previous posts it has been well established that the immune system is susceptible to the cascade of effects produced by stress, but what makes one person’s immune system more susceptible? Can stress have statistically measurable and quantifiable consequences for an...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Numerous studies show that stressors can have profound emotional and physical health consequences. Stressful events trigger cognitive and affective responses, which in turn induce sympathetic nervous system and endocrine changes that ultimately impair immune function....
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The earliest physicians understood that health encompassed the mind, body and spirit. This insight can be traced back to the 2nd century. with Claudius Galen, an influential Roman physician, who noticed that any part of the body can affect any other part through...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Recently, Dr. Daniel Amen has performed functional studies of tens of thousands of brains. Many “mood disorders” can actually be visualized as distortions and concavities in the actual brain and can be readily repaired with proper nutrition and “brain food.” When...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
The history of psychiatric medicine offers an illustrative example of just the kind of Cartesian-based misunderstandings about the mind-body connection that leads to ideas about emotional suppression which I discussed in my last post...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In another post (https://www.bowencollege.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-emotional-suppression/) I addressed the widespread myth of emotional suppression or repression and explained how this construct misunderstood and misrepresented the healing process and health...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my other post (https://www.bowencollege.com/emotional-release-and-good-health/) we explored the idea of suppression. The body is not equipped to suppress itself. Illness is either expressed through signs and symptoms or released through elimination or...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last post I recounted the story of Pasteur and Bechamp’s contributions to our understanding of the relationship between germs and disease. After initially promulgating the Germ Theory of Disease, even Pasteur, in response to Bechamp’s research and his own study...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my last post I introduced the dispute between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp over the chronology in the development of illness. Advance research methods and technology allowed Bechamp to challenge Pasteur’s Germ Theory of Disease. Bechamp demonstrated that in...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
I concluded my last post pointing out that as scientific evidence accumulates paradigms are forced to shift. I also suggested that our understanding of effective assessment would benefit from the perspective of some history that puts the currently popular health care...
