GUNNEL BERRY
Alternative Adapted Reflex Therapy Specialist
Chartered Physiotherapist and Adapted Reflextherapy Specialist combating pain in acute and chronic musculo-skeletal conditions
Gunnel wishes to share her clinical experience of developing alternative ways of treating musculo-skeletal pain including whiplash.
She wishes to expand on the hypothesis of ‘neural adaptations’ and the theory of ‘counter-irritability’ in painful conditions.
Having worked in both private and NHS settings, Gunnel has acquired considerable knowledge from clinical observations.
AdRx Specialist
Adapted Reflextherapy (AdRx) was developed by Gunnel Berry combining medical and reflexology expertise.
It is a treatment that has been in use for two decades helping patients who suffer from musculo-skeletal symptoms by facilitating changes in levels of pain, irritability and hypersensitivity after injury and other unexplained discomforts.
It's all about changing the way we approach treating pain
COURSES & SEMINARS
Gunnel has recently presented papers and courses in:
Australia, China, Greece, Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA
on the hypothesis of neural adaptations and nervous system irritability.
Based on clinical observations and outcomes she wishes to share and compare her experience with other practitioners in the same field.
Adapted Reflextherapy, AdRx, arouse from theoretical interpretations of pain production and clinical observation treating patients in severe pain and with high irritability. It was found that symptoms from a whiplash injury were reduced by treating patient's feet, chronic pain patients were relieved of symptoms which they had endured for years and spinal mobility improved after only one or two treatments.
As demands on physiotherapy services in the NHS required short treatments sessions, AdRx became a therapy of choice to treat patients with musculo-skeletal pains especially those with high hypersensitivity after injury. AdRx has high task specificity and suggests a hypothesis based on neurophysiological events after injury. It combines neurophysiology, psychoneuroimmune (PNI) and theory of compromised neuroplasticity as a basis for pain where the therapy acts as a ‘counter-irritant’ to existing pain production.
BIOGRAPHY
Gunnel was awarded a Diploma of Physiotherapy at the Middlesex Hospital, London in the early 1970’s. Later in 1995 she gained a MSc degree in Advanced Physiotherapy at University College London, shortly after having qualified as a reflexologist in 1989 at the Bayly School of Reflexology.
Set up by a group of physiotherapists in 1992 she became a member of a CIG (Clinical Interest Group) known as the Association of Chartered Physiotherapist in Reflex Therapy, ACPIRT. This association further encouraged Gunnel to relate reflexology and reflex therapy in clinical work.
Gunnel was awarded a PostgradCert in Research Methods at the University of Brighton in 2009; she is a Chartered Physiotherapist in Sweden and was awarded the title of Clinical Specialist in Pain by the NHS in 1998.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Available purchases from Gunnel Berry
Contact Email: gunnel.berry1@gmail.com
Adapted Reflextherapy - AN APPROACH TO PAIN
by Gunnel Berry (Author)
This book describes the technique of AdRx in context of various cohorts of patients seen in a physiotherapy context. Case reports offer empirical evidence using clinical reasoning, outcome measures and physiological explanations of the direct impact the treatment may have in relation to previous medical history adaptions.
AdRx has been found to reduce hyper-sensitive states where no other treatment approach has been successful. It is hypothesised that alterations within the neural plasticity are accountable for the profound responses observed during and after a treatment. Comparative cost estimates are provided in a few cases.
£45.00 +p.p. The Book has 508 pages plus Indexs / Plus Posting
Work Manual for Adapted Reflextherapy (AdRx)
by Gunnel Berry (Author)
This offers and extensive number of case studies in various cohorts to support the use of AdRx. Although now retired from clinical practice, Gunnel continues to involve herself in educational matters.
This work manual facilitates your work further and that you share with others the benefits for patients who permit their feet into your hands. It is a relief for them to be pain free and a great joy for you as a therapist to find a solution to their suffering.
£12.50 + p.p. The Book has 44 pages plus Indexs / Plus Posting
