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Knee Pain Relief at Integration Massage

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yay-7045438 knee pain treatmentKnee pain happens for a variety of reasons. Integration Massage provides relief for many of these.

For example, knee pain can be from recent or old injuries, sports, arthritis or even surgery. Integration Massage uses techniques that are effective for most of these. In particular, Ortho-Bionomy®, neuromuscular and myofascial therapy and exercises work quite well for musculo-skeletal issues. However, some conditions require doctors or physical therapists.… Read the rest

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Bodywork and Mild Frontal TBI

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Public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is growing. That’s a good thing.

61991336 - whiplash effect on the brain can include TBI

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

Benefits of Elder Massage

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9318214_sElder Massage–benefits where you live

If 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

Anger to Forgiveness: Emotions in the Body

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Why am I stuck in anger?

Anger is not listening, attempt to prove I'm right. yay-9244844Anger is the most difficult emotion to master, for many people. Where does it come from? And why is it so hard?

  • Did you expect something to work out and it didnt?
  • Or, did you think you deserved something you didn’t get?
  • And perhaps you think someone is treating you unfairly.
  • Or, you may suspect someone misunderstands your motives?
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Principles of Ortho-Bionomy® in My Practice

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Ortho-Bionomy®: a way to follow your body’s intelligence

  1. Create comfort, don’t inflict pain.
    I may palpate for a tender spot, and then position the body, limb, neck or ribs around that tender spot, until we achieve a position of comfort for you. I can often feel the relaxation of tissue under my finger when the position is right. Or, I may ask you which position feels more comfortable.
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Fibromyalgia Treatment: Exercise, Massage, O-B

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Fibromyalgia Treatment is continued from Fibromyalgia Cause is Still a Mystery.

yay-1064623People usually consult their physicians for fibromyalgia treatment. Although some have found medication to be effective for pain relief and improved sleep, others prefer to supplement with integrative approaches. Still others like to do everything they can do themselves. Lifestyle changes with massage and exercises often reduce stress and benefit immune and nervous system response.… Read the rest

Understanding Fibromyalgia Pain

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Understanding Fibromyalgia

continued from previous post–Fibromyalgia: From Disbelief to Documented

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fibromyalgia tender points

Over the past 12 years, doctors have recognized fibromyalgia as a centrally sensitized pain condition. Central sensitization means the brain and nervous system are hypersensitive. How they interpret pain signals is not functioning properly. Also, a part of the brain that normally regulates pain perception doesn’t work well.… Read the rest

Fibromyalgia Diagnosis: Disbelief to Documented

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The struggle to define a fibromyalgia diagnosis has been a long one. It is an example of a reversal of scientific disbelief in the face of consistent reports of unexplained symptoms. Fibromyalgia doesn’t show up on tests. For many years, the mostly women were dismissed as hypochondriacs, or hysterical. Although it was called “muscular rheumatism” in the mid-1800’s to distinguish it from “joint rheumatism,” or arthritis, it wasn’t identified as a distinct syndrome until the last 30 years.… Read the rest

Ortho-Bionomy® Testimonials

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Ortho-Bionomy® is remarkably effective for releasing muscle tension, for increasing body awareness, and increasing awareness of our connection to others. It can sometimes unravel the causes of an injury, by revealing and then unraveling the pattern of holding you took on at the time of the injury. It follows the direction your body was going, completing the action that was stopped by a wall or the ground.… Read the rest

Chronic Low Back Pain and Research

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yay-6933066neck painful manChronic Low Back Pain Relief

If you have had back pain from a recent tweak (who hasn’t?), it often gets better without treatment. Chronic low back pain is different. Many people find relief from massage. This has more and more support from research. In one study testing non-pharmaceutical options for low back pain, the massage group “used the least medications…and had the lowest costs of subsequent care.… Read the rest