Knee Pain & Injury Treatments
Knee pain can arise from multiple injuries, and the consequence of surgeries. I work with your body’s intelligence, to relieve pain and restore easy movement.
Tag Archives: pain relief
Bodywork and Mild Frontal TBI
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
Anger to Forgiveness: Emotions in the Body
Why am I stuck in anger?
Anger can be the most difficult emotion to master. Partly because it can feel so intense. It has a lot of energy. And partly because it has been used as an excuse to hurt other people, to act outwardly. With that as a model, all feelings of anger are then judged as “wrong” or “bad”.… Read the rest
Principles of Ortho-Bionomy® in My Practice
Ortho-Bionomy®: a way to follow your body’s intelligence
- 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.
Fibromyalgia Treatment: Exercise, Massage, O-B
Fibromyalgia Treatment is continued from Fibromyalgia Cause is Still a Mystery.
People 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
Fibromyalgia Diagnosis: Disbelief to Documented
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
Understanding Fibromyalgia Pain
Understanding Fibromyalgia
continued from previous post–Fibromyalgia: From Disbelief to Documented
Over the past 18 years, doctors have recognized fibromyalgia as a centrally sensitized pain condition. (This was written in 2013, updated 2015. Research has improved since then in terms of understanding fibromyalgia.) Central sensitization means there may be changes in your brain that affects your experience of pain. Or, a part of your brain that normally regulates pain perception doesn’t work well.… Read the rest
Ortho-Bionomy® Testimonials
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
Chronic 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
Thoughts, Beliefs, Emotions in the Body
Beliefs and emotions in the body
Your thoughts may become embedded physically or stuck as emotions in the body. Thoughts are powerful. And mindfulness is a vehicle to change them. As Louise Hay says, “Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back. What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us.”
Your body reflects your negative self-talk: sometimes by contraction, making yourself small; sometimes by inflation, puffing up.… Read the rest