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Face-to-Face Clinical Sessions<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Face-to-face clinical Somatics sessions are the quickest way to begin to restore muscle function, improve freedom of movement, and eliminate your particular pattern of habituated muscular pain. It uses a variety of Somatic techniques which are all designed to help you sense and feel the muscles which are the focus of attention so that you can gently contract and then slowly release them to rest.<\/p>\n

Clinical Somatic Educators undergo a three year programme of training to ensure that they can use the somatic techniques effectively with a wide range of functional issues, each tailored to the client’s specific needs and habituated reflexes.<\/p>\n

The sessions last between an hour and an hour and a half and consist of a full assessment of the client’s problems, their history and posture followed by a clinical session. Clients are then given a series of somatic movement exercises which continue the work done in the session. Ideally these are done on a daily basis between the clinical sessions.<\/p>\n

Clincial sessions are best done at weekly intervals. The majority of clients require only four or five sessions by which time they have learnt how to deal with their own functional problems. More complex problems such as scoliosis might need more sessions.<\/p>\n

Some clients like to return at intervals for re-assessments or if their situation has changed.<\/p>\n

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A typical clinical session includes the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • First there is a\u00a0discussion\u00a0about the nature of your issues and your history as it relates to those issues.<\/span>\u00a0This is followed by an assessment of your walking, posture, the tonus of your back muscles, both standing and lying.<\/li>\n
  • This is followed by hands on work to help you sense the range of current movements and then a series of controlled and assisted pandiculations that help your brain to reset your muscle length and ease tensions.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • We work on a range of muscles that affect the reflex being addressed or the particular functional issue. I say we, because Somatics requires two people.\u00a0 It’s not a fix or a treatment but a re-education process where we work together to help your brain re-connect with forgotten muscles and any SMA that is present.<\/li>\n
  • Most of the session is done lying down so that your muscles are not working against gravity.<\/li>\n
  • As with the Somatic exercises there is no stretching and you work slowly and gently within your comfort range.<\/li>\n
  • You will also learn some of the core exercises which will help you to continue the progress made in the session when you are at home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Face to Face clinical sessions cost \u00a360 per session.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Online Clinical Sessions<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Where it is not possible to meet up for face-2-face clinical sessions you can to get one-2-one help from an online session. This can also work if the distance to travel to me is too great.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sessions are done using the Zoom video conferencing platform and I provide links and guidance for you in accesing Zoom and setting up your camera for the session. You can use a laptop, tablet or phone for the sessions although the easiest to set up is a laptop where you can adjust the screen to show yourself in different positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Online Clinical sessions usually last around 60 minutes.<\/p>\n

    At the end of the session I provide links to audios of the movements that I have taught and also notes on the movements so that you have both visual and aural prompts.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Online clinical sessions cost \u00a340 per session.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Obviosly it isn’t possible to provide hands on work using an online approach but an online session can provide:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • A thorough discussion of your problem\/issues and a full history so that I am aware of the background and such factors as your work, hobbies, sports, injuries or surgeries on the past. This helps me to understand what are likely to be the important factors affecting the muscular tension that is present.\u00a0<\/span>We also discuss what measures you have taken so far to remedy the problem and their impact.<\/li>\n
    • I then use the webcam to assess the way that you stand, your posture and if possible the way that you walk. We discuss how your weight is balanced on your feet, any specific muscular tension that you can feel as you stand or move.<\/li>\n
    • Following this assessmentI can then decide which Somatic movements I need to teach you in order to start to address your particular issues. <\/span><\/li>\n
    • After teaching these movement we review the session.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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