Services offered

+ Therapeutic Massage

+ Biofeedback Training

+ Supplements to balance inflammation and/or restore tissue

+Botanical medicine to reduce pain and balance the immune system response

Goals for Chronic Pain Management

The goals of pain management are to improve the quality of life by improving sleep, increasing mobility and regaining energy. Musculoskeletal pain can often be ameliorated. When the pain does not completely resolve, the perception of pain and quality of life can be improved.

Researchers looking at the use of massage therapy in hospital settings noted that one of their more important findings was not the specific reduction in pain but the subjects change in perception concerning their pain. The suggestion was made that as opposed to researchers looking singularly at the subjective rating of pain ( a 1-10 scale looking at pain levels), the question of how a subject perceives their pain after the intervention may be a more important measurement. These researchers noticed that subjects post massage intervention would often note they were less concerned with the pain level and felt more comfortable in their bodies. These subjects noted they could be more active despite their level of pain.

Research supports the use of medical massage, biofeedback, and lifestyle interventions for reduction of pain and improved quality of life.

Potential cause: When you only have the weekend to fit in all of your activities, that extra activity weekend after weekend can leave you with painful feet.

Solution: the fastest solution can be getting deep massage of the feet and calf.

Experience: I have experience ameliorating plantar fasciitis pain afflicting daily runners, long thru hikers, and easy does it walkers.

Goal: Get back on your trail.

So you are experiencing sciatica.

Some causes:

You started going for longer trail runs.

You sit working for long periods of time with your legs crossed or your foot under your buttocks.

You have a long commute to work and you are tightening your gluteal muscles during traffic without realizing it.

Why you want help: You are feeling the pain and you are ready for it to go away.

Treatment: I will create a plan to bring more awareness around the cause of your pain and suggest tools for you to reduce the cause of your pain.

Manual therapy: typically centers around releasing tension in the gluteal muscles and any excess piriformis muscle compression of the sciatica nerve.

Sciatic pain is generally ameliorated within 3-5 sessions and most people feel a lot better after 1.

The nerve roots are involved: The Brachial Plexus is made up of the Cervical nerves C5-C8 and Thoracic nerve T1 which relay information for movement and sensation to your arm and hand. Compression of one or more of these nerves can trigger nerve pain, muscle weakness, and a tingling sensation.

Some of muscles that may contribute to compression of these nerves include your pectoralis muscles, your teres muscles, and your supraspinatus. By performing the muscle actions in-office, we can better tell which muscle may be contributing to the complaint.

Action:

1) if muscle tension is the cause, then releasing the muscles compressing the nerves relieves the pain.

2) if the action causing to muscle compression is a daily action then we will likely use biofeedback to help you learn to reduce the action