Research, Articles & Case Studies

Visceral Lymphatic Balancing A Combination of Osteopathic Techniques to Improve Patient Outcomes

This review article explores how sensory neurons detect stretch in internal organs like the stomach, bladder, and airways, and how this neural input shapes behaviors such as breathing, digestion, and urination. It highlights key mechanosensory pathways—including vagal and spinal afferents—and sensory structures.

For manual therapists, this research provides valuable insight supporting how manual work on these organs may influence autonomic regulation and neural signaling.

This review article explores how sensory neurons detect stretch in internal organs like the stomach, bladder, and airways, and how this neural input shapes behaviors such as breathing, digestion, and urination. It highlights key mechanosensory pathways—including vagal and spinal afferents—and sensory structures.

For manual therapists, this research provides valuable insight supporting how manual work on these organs may influence autonomic regulation and neural signaling.

Article about how Everything Is Connected: What is Visceral Manipulation and How Does it Relate to the Pelvic Floor?

Sometimes all the body needs to activate the healing process is a gentle touch by a skilled hand - one that can read the body's signals and perceive where an underlying restriction may be inhibiting proper functioning.

CarnioSacral therapy works by helping the body's natural healing mechanisms dissipate the negative effects of stress on the cranial nervous system. This is accomplished through utilizing a physiological body system called the CarnioSacral system, which maintains the environment in which the central nervous system functions.

Previous studies have reported that visceral disturbances can lead to increased musculoskeletal tension and pain in structures innervated from the corresponding spinal level through viscerosomatic reflexes. We designed a pilot randomised placebo-controlled study using placebo visceral manipulation as the control to evaluate the effect of osteopathic visceral manipulation (OVM) of the stomach and liver on pain, cervical mobility, and electromyographic activity of the upper trapezius (UT) muscle in individuals with nonspecific neck pain (NS-NP) and functional dyspepsia.

Our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), is the conductor of the inner orchestra in our body, responsible for the control of our bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, blood pressure, sweating and digestive processes. The ANS is always humming at a certain beat and how well it operates, determines our physical, mental and emotional health. 

How Tapping into ‘‘Energy’’ Can Trigger a Paradigm Shift in Biomedicine

This article is about new ground in how researchers view the skeleton: Not only do bones provide a structural support and serve as a repository for calcium, they issue commands and talk to our brain. They also play a huge role in regulating our blood sugar. 

READ this truly inspiring story presented by Emily Francis, LMT, about her daughter's incredible developmental improvement after adding CranioSacral Therapy to her treatment plan.