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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 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 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…
Read MoreA 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…
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