Interview with Jennifer Price (Part 2): "Liver-Lash" and how the Viscera Get Overlooked in Assessing Musculoskeletal Problems

Thanks for reading Movement Detectivery! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Jen Price is back for part 2! If you haven’t yet listened to part 1, check that out HERE. I got some lovely feedback about our first conversation, and I didn’t even get through half of what I wanted ask Jen about. In this second conversation I wanted to ask Jen about some ideas and concepts that are mulling around in my head in the sphere of health, movement, and bodywork, including:* Should you have to do exercises to integrate a manual therapy session? Or is the treatment enough on it’s own?* What is “health”? (because it’s more than just the absence of disease…)* What role does artificial intelligence have in the future of bodywork? Will we ever have something that resembles a massage robot? Or will human touch always be in style?* How the viscera are involved in many of our chronic pain problems, and in particular, the significance of the liver. Ever heard of “liver-lash”?, i.e. whiplash of the liver.And so much more. I felt like we could have kept talking, yet again. I really think you’ll enjoy this conversation with Jen, I learned a lot and I hope you will, too!I hope you enjoy this conversation and get as much from it as I did.Here’s a little more about Jen:Jennifer’s interest is in the human body's ability to heal itself with a little help from the correct forms of treatment and diagnosis using both modern and ancient knowledge informs the basis of her practice. She believes a health practice where all modalities work in consultation, with the integrated care from all therapists brings the best outcome for the patient. This is why she set up ESOLAB in 2013 and has steadily increased her team to include senior practitioners from many modalities.Her interest in nature and biology began growing up in a farming community in Victoria observing the seasons and animal health and then living in Eastern Asia for two years in her early twenties where she was exposed to Ayurvedic, Tibetan, and Chinese medicine but had already experienced Chinese herbal Medicine successfully as a teenager for eczema. Upon returning to Australia she enrolled in an Acupuncture degree completing it in 1996. A Master's degree in Chinese Herbal medicine was awarded in 2012.During her last 28 years of full-time practice in Chinese medicine in Melbourne, she has undertaken further studies in Bioregulatory Medicine, with the Biomedic Foundation in London UK, Craniosacral with the Upledger institute in London UK, and Visceral Manipulation with the Barral institute around the globe.Jennifer’s passion is to provide quality holistic allied health care with the team at ESOLAB South Melbourne. She is passionate and dedicated to ongoing learning Visceral Manipulation techniques to release restriction in the physical tissues allowing better metabolism, endocrine function, and general vitality. Multiple presenting pathologies, post-viral chronic fatigue, menopause, and psycho-emotionally presenting disease and its multiple manifesting symptoms are some of the most common presenting disorders she treats.If you’re in Melbourne, come visit Jen’s clinic and book in for an appointment here: www.esolab.com.au Get full access to Movement Detectivery at monvolkmar.substack.com/subscribe