Lorna Nicholson
Registered Nurse BAhons, SIRPA practitioner, Embodied Processing Practitioner, Trauma Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner, Buteyko instructor Body control, Pilates Teacher (level 4)
Lorna has worked as a registered nurse for over 25 years, now working as a Pain Nurse Specialist in primary care. As a SIRPA practitioner, she works with any Mindbody condition, but has particular interest in Long-COVID, Postural Tachycardia Syndrome,ME/CFS and pain syndromes such as Fibromyalgia.
Posts by Lorna Nicholson
4 November 2021 · 7 minutes
Hypermobility from a Mind Body perspective
The term joint hypermobility (also known as being “double-jointed”) describes the ability to move a joint through a wider range of movement than “normal”. Associated symptoms may include joint and muscle pain, joint dislocations, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, fast heart rate, low blood pressure, dizziness, fainting, irritable bowel, gastroparesis (where the food moves slowly though the gut), pelvic pain, headaches, interstitial cystitis, fatigue, prone to allergies, anxiety and…
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome and my cat
For many years I have had symptoms of Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This is a condition causing episodes of abdominal cramping, bloating, diarrhoea and constipation. There is no known cause, and no structural abnormality of the bowel is found on investigations. I also have Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) of which IBS is a commonly associated…
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