08/14/2024
Gillespie Approach - Craniosacral Fascial Therapy is one of the new techniques I use in my integrative practice 🥰
Female patients with pelvic floor issues are common in our culture. The Gillespie Approach can be the key factor for authentic healing.
A thirty-year-old mother presented with pelvic floor pain with trouble defecating. She had weekly therapy for 2.5 months without success before she gave birth.
During her delivery, she had a grade-three tear. Being in the medical field, she believed that the new resident sutured her incorrectly. After two more unsuccessful visits of physical therapy, she scheduled with me.
She had other lifetime traumatic issues, including boxing and rugby injuries with many concussions and whiplash traumas. When she was a child, she had swallowing difficulty, was a mouth breather, and wore a headgear and braces. She had a zero-second brain cycle and had fascial restriction throughout her body.
In therapy her pelvis was showing many layers of trauma. The benefit of the Gillespie Approach is that we are working with the entire fascial web. Her conventional physical therapist, as is commonly done for pelvic floor patients, was just releasing isolated muscles and working internally.
I believe this approach can be futile. I have seen many women who have had weekly visits for a year or more, and therapy never moved the needle.
These therapists missed the big picture. The Gillespie Approach needs to be done first, and then, if needed, internal work can proceed.
This patient had a good response to therapy, and I expect her to do well over a series of visits. Gillespie Approach Training for providers can be the key to successful pelvic floor outcomes.
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