Posts by Michael Hahn
A gentle treatment for torticollis – Bend, OR Cranial Sacral Therapy for infants and children.
A gentle treatment for torticollis – Bend, OR Cranial Sacral Therapy for infants and children. It is very common for a newborn to come into this world with torticollis, basically muscles on one side of the neck that are short causing side bending and often rotation. It is not hard to imagine that after being…
Read MoreTime to heal that back pain!
Maybe a few years or decades ago you had a fall while skiing, playing soccer or wrestling with the yard waste bin (sounds odd, it happens). The possibilities are endless, although the end results are similar. PAIN! Often we do not think about or even know our spinal cords should glide within many of our…
Read MoreThe growth of our Brain
Information about the evolution of our brain… The hemispheres of what was to evolve into the human brain began to develop 250 million years ago.(1) 100 million years ago they developed lateral specialization, and very slowly began to grow in size. 65 million years ago protohominid brain volume had reached 30 cubic centimeters, 20 million…
Read MoreHealing headaches – Bend, OR therapist Michael Hahn
There are many types of headaches and the causes can vary dramatically. One of the underlying components with headaches is often swelling, pressure and restrictions in a variety of tissues. The osteopathic style work I offer allows for quick assessment of the body to determine the most potent places to work. The treatments usually include…
Read MoreAbout Rolfing. Bend, OR therapist Michael Hahn.
Rolfing® was developed by Dr. Ida P. Rolf over the course of her lifetime. Dr. Rolf studied yoga early on in her life and this helped inform how she developed the hands-on work known as Rolfing. She was greatly influenced by the work of Osteopathy and realized that the body’s relationship to gravity was a…
Read MoreHistory of Cranial Sacral Therapy
Cranial Sacral Therapy sprouted out of the work of Osteopathy. Cranial Osteopathy was originated by physician William Sutherland, DO (1873-1954) in 1898-1900. While looking at a disarticulated skull, Sutherland was struck by the idea that the cranial sutures of the temporal bones where they meet the parietal bones were “beveled, like the gills of a fish,…
Read MoreVisceral Manipulation treatments help you heal from surgery
There are many layers with in our body. These layers are all designed to move, glide and stretch a certain way. When we have a surgery to our body these layers are cut through and during the healing process loose a considerable amount of the original designed movement. Receiving Visceral Manipulation prior to surgeries helps…
Read MoreOn-line scheduling now available!
I recently added on-line scheduling to my website to make booking an appointment that much simpler. Basically, go to my website, click on the “Schedule Appointment” button and follow the few simple steps. I am using a local company named Fullslate and they are a wonderful company with a great eye for detail and simplicity.…
Read MoreCase history with lower back and arm pain.
A client in her mid twenties came in for visceral manipulation one year after being hit by a car as a pedestrian. She had broken the head of her right radial bone at the elbow and was now plateaued with her healing. She presented chronic pain in her right arm, elbow and hand along with…
Read MoreHealing TMJ issues. Bend, OR.
Stress to the TMJ is usually due to strains within the entire body. Often physical trauma such as whiplash and hard impacts can limit the proper functioning of the body’s tissues. A physical injury can often be enough to set-up strains and cause TMJ dysfunction. Nerves, arteries, ligaments, and tissues surrounding the spinal cord in…
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