The Family Osteopath - Ben Court

😀Another Happy Baby & Family!! Radiant smiles all round.
This little one came in at 8 weeks old, cross all the time, no smiles, mum understandably upset and concerned. This message sent two days later was such a joy to receive. Soft happy baby faces are the expectation, tricky births, pregnancy and post natal complications can get in the way of this natural state. Cranial Osteopthy at its best 🙏

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Saturday clinic OPEN 3rd Feb with spaces available

As you all know, I don’t normally work weekends but due to a diary logistical wobble I am this Saturday.

There are some spaces available for children that usually can’t get in during the school week, please DM me if you’d like to arrange a time for either a follow up or new patient slot.

See you soon. Bx

How can your past effects your recovery from surgery?

This study shows clearly that the more ACE scores a patient has in their childhoods, (Adverse Childhood Experiences, eg death of parent, alcoholic parent, abuse, domestic violence, absent parent etc), the lower the success rate of their spinal surgery.

If this is the case for surgery, what other day to day pains and illness’s are we living with as a result of our upbringing?

Dr Gabor Mate, my teacher, talks about his Compassionate Inquiry approach.

Compassionate Inquiry | With Dr. Gabor Maté This interview took place at Wisdom 2.0, in partnership with Fetzer institute and Unlikely Collaborators.The full interview is at: https://youtu.be/osew41SrN...

https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

How to make stress your friend Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positiv...

Your Body Knows the Truth...try a simple exercise for the next week please.

Notice what happens in your body when you say 'YES' when you mean 'NO'? They'll be some tension, holding, grimace somewhere for sure.

Now imagine you're saying 'YES' a lot when you actually want to say 'NO', how is your body coping, what aches, pains and ills is it holding simply by not expressing your true authentic self?

Please be compassionate with yourselves, don't make yourself wrong, just notice and from there check in with the story you're telling yourself (inside) to make the 'NO' impossible and the 'YES' a better idea (eg. they won't like me, I'll loose out, its the done thing etc).

Good luck, let me know what comes up for you and how your body feels.

Bx

❤️ this book! It’s a must read for anyone having a tough time, simple explanations and advice very thoughtfully given.

https://youtu.be/YTTSXc6sARg?feature=shared

Still Face Experiment Dr Edward Tronick Copyright © 2007 ZERO TO THREE http://www.zerotothree.org Ed Tronick (http://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/Ed_Tronick), directeur van Infant-Parent Mental Health Pro...

Did your baby have a really good first cry?

Why is this so important to cranial osteopaths?

Often we see babies who have struggled to gain weight, or get over colds, delays in development and more…

What we feel when we assess their cranial mechanisms is a lethargy, floppy quality that doesn’t have the potency and drive that is ideal. In more cases than not, but not exclusively, this is when there has been NO first cry or not a strong one, and yes this is more likely in c-sections but also shows up in vaginal births, particularly if they are quick or with significant foetal distress.

This is just part of the full cranial assessment, but a very important one to note.

I hope that helps.

Best, Ben

Baby Sleep issues?

Trauma from a tricky pregnancy, birth or post natal issues can all contribute to your baby’s nervous system being held in a state of fight or flight.

Metaphorically speaking, they sleep with one eye open, so they can scan their environment for threat. This doesn’t allow them to enter the deep delta wave sleep cycles and can make them unsettled easily with the slightest of sounds/disturbances.

Back pain stealing the joy from your life, steadily decreasing the activities you enjoy most because of fear of hurting yourself?

This is all too common and doesn't have to be the case.

Education on what is the root cause of your pain, can help dramatically, and I'll give you a clue, its rarely your back thats the problem, as wear and tear, spinal degeneration, 'slipped discs' and more have been clinically proven to be 'normal occurrences' in pain free people.

Stressed out?

Oxytocin is your bodies natural antidote to Cortisol (your stress hormone), HUGS, walks in nature, stroking a pet, have all been clinically proven to reduce stress by increasing Oxytocin levels.

So here's to more hugs, walks and pet love in 2024! Bx

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Your pain is real...

sadly countless patients experience doubt/confusion by of their medical support and or family/friends over whether their pain is real.

Pain is always real, its laid down in neural pathways by your brain, eg. your leg isn't actually hurting, its your brains pain pathways that tell you it is.

What we now know, is that pain pathways can be created and or reactivated by emotional stress that mimics physically traumatic injuries, giving you REAL pain.

Have you or your family suffer from chronic pain, want to know more, give me a call?

Growing Pains whilst Common are NOT Normal.

Countless parents I meet, have been told that their kids growing pains are a normal part of growing up and that rest and time will be the healer. Thats not my view and experience.

Often we see strained bodies that have no flex in their fascia (connective tissues), as a result of large developmental leaps (particularly common in boys as they seem to surge in growth, whilst girls are more steady and linea).

What this means essentially, is that the anatomy has out run the physiology, this seems to be the reason for the pains. Adjusting the tone of the fascia and allowing some easement in the whole, is what is required, and yes whilst time can do this, at what cost.

Want to talk it through, give Ben a call?

https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en

Fascinating reshaping of our views on stress, well worth 14mins of your time to watch. Enjoy!

How to make stress your friend Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positiv...

Back Pain - shall we take a different look? Evidence shows in this study that well over 75% of PAIN FREE 45yr olds, had on MRI scan, disc herniations, tears to the disc ligaments and degenerative changes!!! This clearly shows that the architecture of your back is not the one and only source of YOUR PAIN. Want to know more…Let’s chat? Bx

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/unlearn-your-pain/201412/mindfulness-cbt-and-act-chronic-pain-part-two

Mindfulness, CBT and ACT for Chronic Pain Part Two Always helpful, often necessary, but rarely sufficient

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/unlearn-your-pain/201412/mindfulness-cbt-and-act-chronic-pain

Mindfulness, CBT and ACT for Chronic Pain Always helpful, often necessary, but rarely sufficient

Cranial Osteopathy is very much a full osteopathy approach to the treatment of the whole of you.

We just don't crunch bones and twist you about to get you better.

Instead we use gentle, thoughtful, rebalancing techniques to help the whole of you get back to shape, painlessly, no matter what the condition. Bx

Angry Children?

This is not a natural state for a child, and is rarely a psychological issue.

If your Childs attitude has flipped to become withdrawn, cross, shy etc, particularly following a General Anesthetic, Life Traumas, Change of school, House move, new siblings etc, then its very likely that the behaviour is an EFFECT of this.

What we feel as cranial osteopaths, is a tightening of the dural sac that holds the central nervous system (CNS), this should have mobility and when it doesn't, behaviour changes result, I term it "Immotion" due to the relative lack of motion available to the CNS.

If this is affecting you and your family, then please ask me, we can chat it through as see where we can offer some easement to calm calm calm.

Best, Ben

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