PRE-MENSTURAL TENSION
PMT is a term used to cover the changes that occur just prior to a woman's period. Very often there are emotional as well as physical changes which can sometimes have quite profound consequences in relationships. A pre-menstrual woman needs great understanding which is not always forthcoming. Often the emotional side of PMT comes on incipiently so that by the time the woman has realised why she feels so ratty her period has started and the PMT has passed! Most women 'grin-and-bear-it' thinking its normal but their friends and relatives can go through hell. Excess fluid is often kept retained just prior to a period, which can cause a feeling of bloatedness and general discomfort.
TREATMENT
With Manual Lymph Drainage can help to reduce the swelling and enable the body to manage periods more easily. Medically hormone treatments or tranquillisers can be prescribed for severe cases. PMT can be helped by Connective Tissue Manipulation reducing the tension in the connective tissue around the nerves helping them to conduct impulses more easily and so improving hormonal control. Tension in the connective tissue around the brain and spinal cord is also reduced which allows the brain to function more normally giving relief to the emotional consequences of PMT
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Jacqueline is one of a few UK Physiotherapists combining Connective Tissue Manipulation, Manual Lymph Drainage, the MacKenzie Exercise Regime and Cranio-sacral Therapy in private practice. During the past four years she has successfully treated over 1,000 patients with spinal problems and a further 1,300 patients with other muscular skeletal problems in her Gillingham Physio Centre in Dorset. In order to offer her specialist techniques to a greater number of patients she started the London Physio Centre at 148 Harley Street. A Chartered and State Registered Physiotherapist, Jacqueline qualified at St Thomas's Hospital, London with additional emphasis in the treatment of backs and necks. She spent five years at the Leicester Royal Infirmary gaining experience in all branches of physiotherapy and became Senior Physiotherapist on the Medical Unit. In 1977 she created a private practice at the Leicester Clinic, eventually covering all orthopaedic, spinal and post-op physiotherapy. | |
