Posts by Michael Hahn
Healing Whiplash at the Root: Restoring Motion, Not Chasing Pain
Whiplash is often treated like a soft tissue injury. Ice it. Stretch it. Strengthen it. And sometimes that helps… a little. But if you’ve worked with enough people, you already know the truth: many never fully recover. The pain lingers. The neck stiffens. The nervous system feels “off.” Something deeper is being missed. From the…
Read MoreHelping the Body Heal from Complex Injuries
Complex injuries rarely come from a single problem. Someone may arrive with neck pain, back pain, headaches, or lingering symptoms after surgery or an accident. Often they have already tried physical therapy, chiropractic care, massage, or medication. Sometimes those approaches help temporarily. Sometimes they don’t seem to reach the deeper issue. What many people discover…
Read MoreA Deeper Way to Work with the Body: My Upcoming 12-Month Practitioner Training
In every manual therapy practice there comes a moment of quiet frustration. You’ve trained extensively. You know anatomy. You’ve learned technique after technique. And yet some clients plateau. Some chronic conditions don’t fully resolve. And occasionally you leave a session feeling like you were close to the root cause — but not quite there. This…
Read MoreHealing in Bend, Oregon
Good day! Having a hard time recovering from an injury, fall, car accident etc? Often after an accident it can take months for the body to find a new equilibrium and often the function of your anatomy has been reduced. That loss leads to global restrictions, leg length imbalances and pain throughout the body. It…
Read MoreActivate your Inner Healer
Good day. How are your body and soul holding up during this time of grief, loss, civil unrest and exaggerated division among humanity? When I work on you in person, I did the work. Now I can show YOU how to release your dura, balance your organs, spine and cranium while also tuning into and…
Read MoreAdvanced work with joint capsules.
A man in his 50’s came in for a first session to help restore movement in his body that has slowly been lost over the decades. The most limiting area in his body was a shoulder that had been “frozen” for years. He left the office with almost full range of motion in his shoulder.…
Read MoreLung restrictions are often part of TMJ dysfunctions.
The human body is designed to move in very specific ways. Many chronic pain issues, including TMJ dysfunction have their origins rooted in body restrictions often poorly understood, rarely assessed and usually not treated. The lungs are covered in a membrane called the visceral pleura, the ribcage is lined with a continuation of that same…
Read MoreThe often overlooked systems.
Many chronic pain issues are caused by strains and adhesion’s in systems that rarely get treated with hands-on therapies. The work of Visceral Manipulation addresses these systems to restore function and hep the body to heal itself. Visceral Manipulation treats all the tissues of the body including: nerves, arteries, bones, joints, the cranium and of course organs.…
Read MoreVisceral Manipulation can help heal hiatal hernia’s
When the valve from the esophagus to the stomach becomes dysfunctional, acid from the stomach finds its way up into the esophagus. If this persists the esophagus can become damaged resulting in many complications, some potentially more serious than others. The work of Visceral Manipulation aims to restore proper mobility, glide and function to the…
Read MoreWhat is the craniosacral rhythm?
Our spinal cord and brain are wrapped in a strong membrane called dura mater derived from the Latin “tough mother”, it is tough, inflexible and leather-like. The bones of the head are bonded to the the dura and it attaches to the first three vertebrae in the upper neck before it glides through the…
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