I have been considering the advice of health professionals to limit face-to-face exposure during the coronavirus pandemic. I’m also considering the risks of overwhelming our health care services. If we can “flatten the curve”, it will decrease the rate of community transmission, and slow the demand for acute care services.
Mental rehearsal and mindfulness are the rage in elite sports training. From Olympic gymnasts, to college football, imagery has helped athletes perfect their performance for decades. Athletes (and non-athletes) now also use mental imagery to heal from injuries.
The body and mind are not separate. The key is to harness the mind to benefit the body. That takes training.… Read the rest
This poster came about because a client hadn’t been able to do her favorite sports for years. She first wanted me to solve a problem with her knee pain. I did that. Then she mentioned a perception of instability, that made skiing, snowboarding, and inline skating feel unsafe. However, it turned out that her ankle, not her knee, was the culprit.… Read the rest
As massage therapists, we treat functional symptoms all the time. Functional symptoms means you may have pain or other complaints, but the doctors can find no cause. Nothing shows up on scans.
This can be frustrating to doctors. But for those of us who work with the body, it is normal. We figure out how to resolve your pain or stiffness by getting your body to function better.… Read the rest
Rosi! Not another auto accident!?I have had head injuries before. After I was rear-ended in an auto accident, May 2015, I wouldn’t let them cart me away in an ambulance because I didn’t want “to take care of a bunch of doctors!” (I agree, that was evidence of impaired judgment.)
Within 10 minutes of the auto accident, I was having continuous seizures and could not speak or walk normally.… Read the rest
Public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is growing. That’s a good thing.
Unfortunately, disability and the need for care of people with TBI is also growing. Sports-related injuries, war trauma, whiplash or concussion in an auto accident, even toxic chemicals and stroke can result in TBI.
Mild to moderate frontal brain injury, or frontal TBI may give people trouble with memory, reasoning, emotions, and social relations.… Read the rest
Ortho-Bionomy®–healing art or science?Is Ortho-Bionomy® a healing art or science? Currently, science is mostly viewed from a medical perspective. Although great strides have been made in medical research in the last hundred years, most well-funded medical research is about treatments that can be done to a person, rather than what we can do to heal ourselves. That doesn’t mean that our self-healing capacity is not science-based or evidence-based.… Read the rest
Elder Massage–benefits where you liveIf you are retired, you don’t need to feel tired–you may just need some elder massage! You may have assumed that pain, loss of mobility or various chronic ailments are natural. They are not. They are often the result of putting everything and everyone else first, and not attending to your body’s needs.
It is not selfish, but healthy to retrain habits, to sit, stand, and walk more easily.… Read the rest
