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Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. It may also affect speech. DCD is a lifelong condition, formally recognised by international organisations including the World Health Organisation. DCD is distinct from other motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and stroke, and occurs across the range of intellectual abilities. Individuals may vary in how their difficulties present: these may change over time depending on environmental demands and life experiences. An individual’s coordination difficulties may affect participation and functioning of everyday life skills in education, work and employment. Children may present with difficulties with self-care, writing, typing, riding a bike and play as well as other educational and recreational activities. In adulthood many of these difficulties will continue, as well as learning new skills at home, in education and work, such as driving a car and DIY. There may be a range of co-occurring difficulties which can also have serious negative impacts on daily life. These include social and emotional difficulties as well as problems with time management, planning and personal organisation, and these may also affect an adult’s education or employment experiences. Many people with DCD also experience difficulties with memory, perception and processing. While DCD is often regarded as an umbrella term to cover motor coordination difficulties, dyspraxia refers to those people who have additional problems planning, organising and carrying out movements in the right order in everyday situations. Dyspraxia can also affect articulation and speech, perception and thought. What causes dyspraxia? Although the exact causes of dyspraxia are unknown, it is thought to be caused by a disruption in the way messages from the brain are transmitted to the body. This affects a person’s ability to perform movements in a smooth, coordinated way. Research has shown that our unconscious mind makes 90% of our decisions and that behaviours are established at a very young age. The unconscious mind’s primary function is to protect us. However, behaviours learned at a young age are not always helpful in dealing with issues that we face as adults. Although our conscious mind knows how to deal with situations rationally, the unconscious mind which is the driving force, can create a raft of limiting and unhelpful behaviours because of early programming. Life changes, and so can you! Call Stuart: +44 7825 599340 / 0121 403 3163
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Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. It may also affect speech and makes life a little more challenging . Problems can also include balance and movement , thinking , memory and life skills . Anxiety , frustration , anger and overwhelm can all make the symptoms worse .
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
IBS is a gastrointestinal problem which can physically cause nausea, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bowel incontinence and bloating. In addition to these problems it can also affect people mentally in terms of anxiety regarding living with it and when it will strike and this can often subsequently affect their mood.
The exact cause of why Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) occurs has never been confirmed but it is thought to possibly be a cause of food passing through your gut too quickly, oversensitive nerves in your gut, stress and sometimes a family history of the problem.
The stomach is the most emotional part of your body and there is a connection between your brain and your gut and as you respond to difficult and adverse life experiences your gut responds accordingly. This is evidenced by the fact that there is more serotonin contained in your gut than in your brain.
The connection between your mind and your gut is a linked pathway whereby the sensations in your gut reach your brain through a network of nerves in your intestine, which is transferred through your spinal cord to your brain and the connection can work both ways. If the brain is affected the gut reacts and vice versa.
The mayo clinic in America reports that any person can experience stomach pain and bowel irregularities with stress and anxiety, but in IBS sufferers the stress related symptoms of diarrhoea and pain occur with far greater regularity. This affects their sense of well-being, activities in work and in family life. In America Irritable Bowel Syndrome accounts for the second leading cause of absenteeism from work.
This is why hypnotherapy is such a useful tool in combating Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In its purest form hypnotherapy will induce a state of deep relaxation in addition to ego strengthening and helpful suggestions of improvement to your less analytical subconscious mind whilst in trance.
The ego strengthening may involve encouraging you to build tolerance to the problem promoting your confidence and your resilience in controlling it, and normalising digestive function. It depends on how any one individual experiences IBS but different approaches may involve direct suggestion such as no more pain, no more discomfort and that you can control when you need to go to the toilet
In hypnotherapy I encourage you to pay less attention to your symptoms, and to ignore the uncomfortable sensations and to not be too fixated on them. This is because often, if people have lived with the problem for a long time, they can be hyper vigilant to it which only heightens their anxiety. we focus on calming the digestive tract which subsequently prevents heightened focus on pain and discomfort in the body.
Hypnotherapy in recent times is proving a popular alternative to conventional treatments and helps not just with the actual symptoms but also improve quality of life and there is substantial evidence in particular that it alleviates abdominal pain and bloating in particular. In Sweden hypnotherapy is the primary approach for dealing with IBS. In a more recent study in 2002 it was found that from 250 people surveyed those receiving hypnotherapy for IBS reported more than 50% reduction in severity of symptoms and improved quality of life. There was significant improvement in terms of managing abdominal pain, distension (bloating), bowel problems and also overall quality of life.
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Dyspraxia (historically known to doctors as ‘clumsy child syndrome’) is a developmental co-ordination disorder that can have an effect on basic and fine motor skills, organisation and spatial awareness. Sufferers often have trouble placing themselves in space and time, struggle with basic everyday tasks and are often viewed as clumsy. But this clumsiness is not just absent mindedness on their part – but instead a result of an abnormality in brain function. While doctors are able to identify it, they struggle when it comes to measuring and treating the underlying causes of the condition.Dyspraxia originates in the brain stem, with a small group of cells known as the inferior olivary nucleus. The brain stem separates into two sides, and the group of cells on each side of the divide send electrical impulses to the cerebellum, up into the brain and back again. These impulses control movement, and allow us to do things like fastening a button with both hands at the same time. But in a person suffering from dyspraxia, these impulses are out of sync, and this can cause issues in movement. On top of this – the cerebellum sends impulses to the posterior parietal lobe (which controls spatial awareness), and these communications are also interrupted or delayed, causing the clumsiness commonly associated with dyspraxia. While we typically are aware of where our limbs are all the time, with dyspraxia this awareness is not present – meaning you could literally trip over your own feet because your brain isn’t aware of where your feet are.
Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. It may also affect speech. DCD is a lifelong condition, formally recognised by international organisations including the World Health Organisation. DCD is distinct from other motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and stroke, and occurs across the range of intellectual abilities. Individuals may vary in how their difficulties present: these may change over time depending on environmental demands and life experiences.
An individual’s coordination difficulties may affect participation and functioning of everyday life skills in education, work and employment.
Children may present with difficulties with self-care, writing, typing, riding a bike and play as well as other educational and recreational activities. In adulthood many of these difficulties will continue, as well as learning new skills at home, in education and work, such as driving a car and DIY.
There may be a range of co-occurring difficulties which can also have serious negative impacts on daily life. These include social and emotional difficulties as well as problems with time management, planning and personal organisation, and these may also affect an adult’s education or employment experiences.
Many people with DCD also experience difficulties with memory, perception and processing. While DCD is often regarded as an umbrella term to cover motor coordination difficulties, dyspraxia refers to those people who have additional problems planning, organising and carrying out movements in the right order in everyday situations. Dyspraxia can also affect articulation and speech, perception and thought.
What causes dyspraxia?
Although the exact causes of dyspraxia are unknown, it is thought to be caused by a disruption in the way messages from the brain are transmitted to the body. This affects a person’s ability to perform movements in a smooth, coordinated way
Symptoms of Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia is present from birth, and it is usually spotted in children between the ages of 3 and 5. Children will be more accident prone than their classmates, often bumping into other children, walking into walls or even falling off their chairs for no apparent reason. They will often struggle with fine motor skills like writing, and will find sports very difficult due to the high level of co-ordination needed. It is at this age that a lot of dyspraxics start to be teased and taunted by their peers, who do not understand the trouble they are having.As adults, the condition has a large impact on day to day life. It’s common to have issues with organisation, and dyspraxics will often find themselves repeating words or sentences due to difficulties organising the content and sequence of their speech. Various sensory sensitivities start to set in, and this can manifest in many ways. Poor visual perception, difficulty distinguishing specific sounds from background noise and over or under sensitivity to light, pain, touch and temperature affect a large amount of sufferers. Difficulty in motor skills continues, along with all the problems encountered in childhood. This can make simple tasks like using public transport, getting ready in the morning or making a sandwich extremely difficult.While you cannot cure dyspraxia, there are a number of methods and treatments designed to help sufferers cope with the symptoms and improve their day to day lives. Neuroplasticity is the idea that the brain changes throughout life, and even in adulthood you are able to work with the brain to aid healthy development, learning, memory and recover from brain damage – the perfect therapy for a dyspraxia sufferer. It is well-known that Hypnotherapy can help with giving up smoking, controlling weight, gaining confidence etc. but it can also be effective for helping concentration, relieving anxiety, learning and improving sports, musical instruments, public-speaking etc. Hypnotherapy can be effectively applied to people with dyspraxia, for relieving some of the symptoms, and programmes have been developed that address some of the issues faced when, walking, eating (particularly in front of other people), learning to drive, passing the driving test and many more. Hypnotherapy is a very powerful tool that can, and does, make a positive difference to many people’s lives. Even if you have dyspraxia, you could be one of those people. Research has shown that our unconscious mind makes 90% of our decisions and that behaviours are established at a very young age. The unconscious mind’s primary function is to protect us. However, behaviours learned at a young age are not always helpful in dealing with issues that we face as adults. Although our conscious mind knows how to deal with situations rationally, the unconscious mind which is the driving force, can create a raft of limiting and unhelpful behaviours because of early programming.
Life changes, and so can you!
Call Stuart: 0121 403 3163 / 07825 599340 for a free 30 minute confidential telephone consultation to discuss in more depth how hypnotherapy can help with dyspraxia .
