Gut Health PT
Gut health is more than a diet. Your structure matters. Your emotions matter. Your stress matters.
The air you breathe matters. How you breathe matters. All of your past injuries and infections to your body matter. It all matters.
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Hi I’m Kim Zevin, DPT. I am a physical therapist who is passionate about gut health and restoring normal function to your gut. It seems like every chronic disease stems from the gut these days, so we better try a bit harder to prevent this. There are some great expert doctors out there giving you all the recent science and data on the microbiome and tools to improve your gut health with diet, exercise, meditation and lifestyle changes. I love them. I’m actually obsessed with them and their information. I guide patients to their podcasts and books and I use what they have taught me to also help my patients. Sometimes, that’s enough. But, the truth is that, there are still people out there who are suffering from digestive issues who have tried all of the diets and tools. That’s where I come in. I want to rehab your gut and restore it to its normal function.
Did you ever think that your gut issues could be structural? What does this mean?
Did you ever think that your gut issues could be structural? What does this mean?
The easiest way to think of this (in the context of gut health) is to think of scar tissue. Scar tissue is a natural thing that happens in our body in response to tissue trauma such as infection or surgery. Let's say a woman has to have a c-section. That deep cut is going to form some scar tissue. Thank goodness it does. But sometimes that scar tissue gets a bit crazy and organs, such as the small intestine loops, get restricted into the normal and natural healing of that scar. This can happen with any surgery in any location. The thing is, your organs need to MOVE. So, your small intestines are unhappy to be moving less and now you start having gut issues. This could take years to manifest post c-section or after any abdominal or pelvic surgery but regardless, those loops of your small intestine need and can be freed so they can move again. How? My hands are trained in visceral manipulation. But that’s not the whole story.
Have you ever bumped your head really hard, had a concussion, a head surgery, dental surgery, or sinus surgery? Now although the scar tissue will form with the surgeries, what happens with the bumps and concussions? And why am I talking about the head when I am the gut health PT?
Well, one the number one things I treat for gut issues is the head and mouth. When I started to treat a lot of gut patients, such as Constipation, SIBO and Irritable bowel, I noticed that their bodies were always guiding me to their heads. And after years of doing this type of work, you start to see the patterns. The trauma from those bumps and concussions, stays in the tissues of your head. Mostly the cranial membranes that surround your brain, but also your brain. Your vagus nerve is the nerve that controls most of your gut. That originates on the brainstem and traverses through a space in your head called the jugular foramen before it dives out behind your ears and down to your organs. We want this nerve to be happy. We want its path to be clear and we want the vagus nerve to be able to MOVE. How can you make sure that is happening? My hands trained by French MDs and Osteopaths in advanced cranial membrane release and Brain release. I can release the trauma from the tissues in your head and brain and make sure your vagus nerve has the freedom of movement. Movement is Life in all the tissues. This vagus nerve also controls some sphincters in your body such as the Iliocecal valve. This valve must be functional to make sure the bacteria in your colon are staying in the colon and not having a free passage to the small intestine thus causing chaos. Its simply not their home and as a result of their trespassing you get gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, etc. etc. We need the valve to have a clear nerve signal but we also need the tissue tensions of the colon and small intestine to be in harmony.
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