: Raymond Perrin
: Through the Looking Glass Diagnosing and treating long COVID using the Perrin Technique
: Hammersmith Health Books
: 9781781612576
: 1
: CHF 21.70
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: Erkrankungen, Heilverfahren
: English
: 360
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This practical handbook gives you the basics of WHY and HOW to use the Perrin Technique to underpin recovery from Long-Covid and restore healthy lymphatic drainage from the brain following Covid-19 infection or vaccination. Bringing together the post-pandemic context, the background science and Dr Perrin's clinical findings, this new book is a clear, concise account of the structural and neuro-immunological problems that can lead to the symptoms of Long-Covid and is ideal for patients wishing to gain an understanding of their complex condition as well as for health practitioners and physical therapists wishing to understand the basics. Through the Looking Glass takes readers through the confusion around what Long-Covid really is and out the other side where it is possible to have a much clearer view of what treatment will work and why.

Raymond N Perrin DO PhD was the inaugural Winner of the Institute of Osteopathy's 2015 Research and Practice Award. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Allied Health Professions, University of Central Lancashire, and a Registered Osteopath and Specialist in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and now Long-Covid. Treating a patient for back pain in 1989 led him to the concept that there was a structural basis to ME/CFS. He has spent over thirty years researching the medical facts and sifting the scientific evidence related to lymphatic drainage of the brain while successfully treating an increasing number of CFS/ME and, since 2020, Long-Covid sufferers and teaching fellow osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists the fundamentals of the Perrin Technique. He is the author of The Perrin Technique (a guide for practitioners, now in its second edition published in March 2021) and The Concise Perrin Technique (a guide for patients, published in August 2021) as well as being the co-author of some key research papers including Hives et al 2017 (DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017521). He continues to run clinics in Manchester and London specialising in treatment for ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and Long-Covid.

‘Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye.’

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, p. 13

Case: Iain’s story

At the end of January 2023 I burst into tears as I opened the front door of Perrin’s Corner and stepped outside. Dr Perrin had just declared it to be ‘D-Day’. I was finally discharged. What I hadn’t been consciously aware of until the tears gave me away, was that I had spent a long time uncertain that I would ever be well again.

I caught COVID-19 in April 2020. I had a bit of a sore throat and a headache. I hadn’t suffered any problems with taste, smell or breathing and felt that I had got off lightly. I was finding my daily duties of caring for my young adult daughter, who suffers with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia, increasingly difficult. I was spending more and more time either in bed or on the sofa. Another daughter couldn’t manage to go to work and joined me on the sofa where, on a good day, I got to experience her favourite Netflix shows. On a bad day, even watching TV was too much for me. I couldn’t cook, I could read very little, I couldn’t go out and see anyone or run errands, even conversation was difficult. I would be knocked out for a few hours if I spoke to my parents on the phone. Eventually, my wife connected the dots and had a conversation with the man treating our youngest for ME. A trip to see Dr Raymond Perrin revealed that I had post-COVID fatigue, as did my eldest and middle daughters.

You may remember that shopping involved queueing and going one way around the shop and scrambling for toilet rolls … and I could be of no help whatsoever. My wife, Michelle, as well as working full time, had to deal with these extended domestic chores, doing all of the cooking and cleaning and massaging three of us every day. She would get up, work online, get our breakfast, go back into her office, stop to get us drinks, lunch, do the shopping, get dinner and then massage us all.

After a few months of being treated with the Perrin Technique™ in the clinic and at home I saw some improvement and could manage a short daily walk around the block. However