Name: The Therapeutic Bodyworker
Address: 11000 Three Chopt Rd, Richmond, VA, 23233
Telephone: 804-404-3482

Relieving Back Pain

By improving posture, without having to be committed to daily exercising is attainable most of the time.

Many times, back pain relief can be acheived long term or completely eliminated by realigning the body. Finding a therapist that has the training and abilities to accomplish this, can be a good start. Recent research made public on back pain treatment listed massage therapy as one of the most important effective options. It was also obvious in the description, that very precise therapeutic protocols be used. Some therapists have the tools and are in line with the level of therapeutic work on which the study was based.

It is too bad that a lot of people that experience back pain sought out massage therapy when their symptoms first appeared and did not have any long term relief.

So they don't feel massage therapy is any more effective than any other treatment. Even good deep tissue work on the tissue directly attached to the spine, can only have limited results.

Without bringing the pelvis into balance to support the spine with long term improvements and treating not only the muscle bodies, but the facia, most gains are temporary.

Facia is what governs the shape and length of the muscles. Adhesions lock and limit the bones from moving out of the imbalance and compress nerves. A protocol that includes the release of fluids, toxins and inflammation, the release of the ineffective myofascial holding patterns that support the structural collapse, and then release of scar tissue and adhesions that compress nerves and prevent balancing of the rest of the structure, makes a therapist able to provide a level of treatment that results in significant back pain relief in the first session.

A protocol that includes the release of fluids

toxins and inflammation, the release of the ineffective myofascial holding patterns that support the structural collapse, and then release of scar tissue and adhesions that compress nerves and prevent balancing of the rest of the structure, makes a therapist able to provide a level of treatment that results in significant back pain relief in the first session.

Neck and Shoulders

Symptoms from Occipital Neuralgia respond well when individual fiber strokes release the chronically shortened myofacial fibers that hold distortions in the neck and shoulders, causing pain, limiting range of motion, and severely restricting proper function of the muscle. These fibers include scar tissue adhesions within and between muscles and layers of facia, bunching and thickening of fibers around muscle attachments, and bunching and thickening of tissues around joints. Significant results are usually achieved by using specialized myofascial release protocols integrated with cranial release.

Treatment Goals

Normalization of Structure of Neck

Normalization of Trigger Points, Trigger Point Referral Zones, and Related of Muscles

Mobilization Cranium Including the Occiputal and Om (Occipital/Mastoid)

Mobilization of Splinting Immobilization

Increase Range of Motion

Diminish, Ischemia, Fluid and Inflamation

Release Muscle Spasms

Relieve Nerve Entrapments From Adhesions Spasms, Scar Tissue

Normalize Energy Flow Through Accupressure Meridians

Increase Energy Flow Through Damaged Tissues for Healing

Release Charachter Armor

Release Clients Emotional Charge

Alleviate Pain

Whiplash

Many motor vehicle accident victims will experience multiple injuries as well as emotional trauma. The combination of Quick Release Technique and advanced massage therapy techniques is very effective. Although the whole body is involved, several conditions that occur in the head, neck and shoulders as a result of a motor verhicle accident are:

Misalignment of the Structure of the Neck, Usually a Reverse Curvature

Splinting by the Body to Immobilize the Neck Due to Damaged Tissue

Myofascial Holding Patterns That Limit the Range of Motion of the Neck and Shoulders

Emotional Stress Creating Pain and Contraction Tissue That Is Blocking the Experience of the Pain or Emotion

Cranial Distortions and Compressions

Nerve Entrapments Resulting From Tightened in Spasm

Adhesions Scar Tissue and Damage Tissue

Swelling and Inflammation of Cervical Muscles

Inflammation of Cervical Muscles

Inflammation and Swelling of Nerve Tissues

Shortening of the Soft Tissue in the Posterior Neck, Causing a Jamming of the Occiput, Atlas and Axis

Results

The application of theses treatment protocols will address the condition and relieve whiplash symptoms by:

Releasing the Reverse Curvature of the Neck Allowing the Client to Lie More Comfortably in a Supine Position

Mobilizing Muscles That Have Become Splinted to Protect the Injured Area

Initiating the Release of the Myofacial Holding Patterns

Mobilizing the Energy That Blocks the Experience of Pain or Emotions Surrounding the Accident

Initiating the Release of Muscle Spasm Taking Pressure Off Nerve Entrapments

Decompressing the Cranium and Mobilize the Occiput

Reducing the Swelling and Inflammation of Cervical Muscles and Nerve Tissues

Mobilize the Occiput, Atlas, and Axis

Reducing the Pain in the Trigger Points Referral Zones

Opening the Acupressure Meridians to Increase the Energy Flow Through Damage Tissues Tissue for Healing.

Headaches

Headaches Symptoms from Occipital Neuralgia respond well when Treatment Goals normalization of structure of neck normalization of trigger points, trigger point referral zones, and related of muscles Mobilization cranium including the occiputal and OM (occipital/mastoid) mobilization of splinting immobilization increase range of motion diminish, ischemia, fluid and inflamation release muscle spasms relieve nerve entrapments from adhesions spasms, scar tissue normalize energy flow through accupressure meridians increase energy flow through damaged tissues for healing release charachter armor release clients emotional charge alleviate pain Whiplash Many motor vehicle accident victims will experience multiple injuries as well as emotional trauma. The combination of Quick Release Technique and advanced massage therapy techniques is very effective. Although the whole body is involved, several conditions that occur in the head, neck and shoulders as a result of a motor verhicle accident are: misalignment of the structure of the neck, usually a reverse curvature splinting by the body to immobilize the neck due to damaged tissue myofascial holding patterns that limit the range of motion of the neck and shoulders emotional stress creating pain and contraction tissue that is blocking the experience of the pain or emotion cranial distortions and compressions nerve entrapments resulting from tightened in spasm adhesions scar tissue and damage tissue swelling and inflammation of cervical muscles inflammation of cervical muscles inflammation and swelling of nerve tissues shortening of the soft tissue in the posterior neck, causing a jamming of the occiput, atlas and axis The application of theses treatment protocols will address the condition and relieve whiplash symptoms by: releasing the reverse curvature of the neck allowing the client to lie more comfortably in a supine position mobilizing muscles that have become splinted to protect the injured area initiating the release of the myofacial holding patterns mobilizing the energy that blocks the experience of pain or emotions surrounding the accident initiating the release of muscle spasm taking pressure off nerve entrapments decompressing the cranium and mobilize the occiput reducing the swelling and inflammation of cervical muscles and nerve tissues mobilize the occiput, atlas, and axis reducing the pain in the trigger points referral zones opening the acupressure meridians to increase the energy flow through damage tissues tissue for healing. Neck And Shoulders individual fiber strokes release the chronically shortened myofacial fibers that hold distortions in the neck and shoulders, causing pain, limiting range of motion, and severely restricting proper function of the muscle. These fibers include scar tissue adhesions within and between muscles and layers of facia, bunching and thickening of fibers around muscle attachments, and bunching and thickening of tissues around joints. Significant results are usually achieved by using specialized myofascial release protocols integrated with cranial release. Many clients show up for therapy with various types of headaches, and neck and shoulder problems causing head aches, that can be the result of of numerous conditions:

Misalignments in the Neck Caused by Injury, Stress,or Chronic Structural Patterns

Energy Blockage

A Clients Compensation for Pain

Emotional Stress at the Time

Cranial Compression That Lock the Occiput or Om (Occipital/Mastoid) Sutures

Nerve Entrapments Resulting From Tightness of Spasming Muscles

Scar Tissue and Adhesions Creating Tension in the Soft Tissue Whether From Structural Compensation or or From External Stresses or Injuries

Swelling and Inflammation of Cervical Muscles Entrapping Nerves and Also Inflaming the Nerve Tissues Passing Through Them

Treatment Protocols

The application of these treatment protocols will address these conditions and relieve headache pain very effectively by:

Releasing Trigger Points Associated with Contracted Muscles.

Releasing Distortions in the Neck (Forward Head Posture or Reverse Curve, Ridgid Military Neck and the Jamming of the Occiput and Atlas).

This allows significant improvement in the structural alignment of the neck, which relieves symptoms.

Mobilizing the Occiput and the Om Sutures Which Also Improves the Structural Alignment of the Neck and Decompresses the Cranium, Both of Which Cause Pain in the the Head and Neck.

Releasing Trigger Points in the Soft Tissues Allowing

a significant reduction in the fluid and waste products (ischemia) found in the soft tissues that entrap nerves, enflame nerves, and shorten muscles.

Reducing Pain in Trigger Point

referral patterns along nerve pathways in the head, neck and shoulders. and softening of the muscle spasms that entrap those nerves.

Reducing Pain in Trigger Point Referral Patterns Along Nerve Pathways in the Head, Neck and Shoulders.

and softening of the muscle spasms that entrap those nerves.

Reducing Inflammation with the Release of These Trigger Points.

Releasing the Compensating Patterns That Have Tightened or Blocked Other Muscles of the Neck Creatig Headache Symptoms.

Mobilizing the Energy Flow Through the Accupressure Meridians Clearing Blockages That Cause Headaches.

Releasing the Character Armor (Tightened Muscles to Block Emotion) with Direct Trigger Point Release, Resulting in Relaxation in Relaxation of the Muscle Tissue and Healthy Flow of Emotional Energy.

Releasing Cranial Distortions and Soft Tissue Compression Found with Tmj.

Core Distrotion

Left illium (hip) is rotated forward and in toward the centerline

Right illium (hip) is rotated back and flared out

Sacrum is rotated and tipped right

Left ASIS more medial and inferior than the right side

Left knee is hyper / hypo extended, medially rotated

Left foot is laterally rotated

Left shoulder is raised

Right shoulder is down and rotated medially

Head tilted

Conditions That Improve with Core Distorsion Release

Degenerative, Herniated and Ruptured Disks

Numbness in the hand

Tennis elbow

Nerve conditions

Pain in the wrist and forearm, Pain radiating down the arm

Emotional Tension, Finger numbness

Finger Numbness

Osteoporosis Weakness/clumsiness of hand

Disk Problems

Rotator Cuff Problems Headaches

Cluster headaches

Acid reflux

Fallen Arches

Ulcers

Plantar Fasciitis

Neuralgia

Restless leg syndrome

Bursitis

Nerve Entrapments

Siatica Relief

Muscle Spasms from Structural Misalignments

Hip pain

Inflammation

Chronic Fatigue

Rehabilitation after hip replacements

Conditions of the upper leg and groin pain

Whiplash (flexion/extension injuries)

TMJ

Calf Pain and Cramps

Ankle and Foot Conditions

Ankle Sprains/ Strains

Hiatal Hernia

Rheumatiod Arthritis

Groin strains

Auto accident injuries, Hamstring Strains and Pulls

Pregnancy

Neuritis Due to Disc Displacement

Cerebral Palsy

Injury to Lumbrosacral Nerves

Multiple Sclerosis

Lumbrosacral Nerve Irritation

Torticolis

Knee Conditions

Post Surgery Rehabilitation of Knee

Realignment of Knee

Patellar Tendonosis

Thoratic outlet syndrome

Heel Spurs

Hip pointers

Fibromyalgia and Arthritis

Hip degeneration

Lupus

Unlocking Performance Potential

Wonder why all the top money earning athletes on TV have a perfect posture?

(look athem, the next time you watch an event) Because it allows them to perform at peak proficiency. That is one of the reasons they are winning

SET work helps the muscles, structure and organs of the body perform at peak profiency so that you are delivering your A game.

SET removes scar tissue that can bind, restrict and decrease power. SET can help people overcomeemotional stumbling blocks that stand in the way of success

SET work is the tool winners use to increase their edge and keep their muscles in top shape.

Perfecting you're A game lies in how quickly and fully your muscles respond as you play. Just working the area of complaint without balancing the structure leads to limited results and prolongs the loss of potential

Most athletic endeavors require running and co-ordination

This is severely limited by the 40% loss of strength and function of at least 1/3 of of the major muscle groups in every person who has not had the core distortion released

When we treat young developing children with athletic skills, we see a more rapid increase of their athletic skills at an earlier age.

All Human Beings Repress Emotions

And, we all suffer as a result of it.

In fact, I'll go even further

Repressed emotions are responsible for MOST of the suffering you experience. Doing something to UNrepress these emotions can, in fact totally change your life.

Examples

Here are a few examples of what I mean:

Reactivity (where you're suddenly pissed off by something, your blood pressure spikes, your body is flooded with harmful hormones and neurochemicals that leave you feeling terrible for hours).

Anxious feelings (again, changing your blood chemistry and ruining your mood and your day).

Depression and sadness (ditto).

Stress (and all kinds of stress-related physical problems, many of which are deadly).

Judgmental feelings (causing you to be at odds with other people).

Hopelessness, negative emotions, and a lack of purpose.

Feeling tired all the time (it takes a lot of energy to repress emotions--energy you could use for something much more beneficial).

And, actually, a lot more.

You Say You Don't Have Any Repressed Emotions?

Bet you do. Anyway,.First, let me explain WHY everyone represses plenty of emotions.

When you're growing up, your parents (and the other adults in your life) have their own ideas about what's right, wrong, acceptable, unacceptable, good, evil...and so forth.

When you express a feeling, or act in a way that isn't on the "approved list".

these adults give you some sort of "negative reinforcement" in order to teach you NOT to feel, do, or be whatever they think isn't okay.

For your own good.

Some of this negative reinforcement is mild, while some of it could be quite intense. And much of it is well intentioned.

Also keep in mind while all of this is happening you're a small, dependent, powerless little person.

You have to comply.

You quickly learn that you have to disown or repress certain normal human feelings and responses.

For instance, you might feel angry because you didn't get something you needed or wanted, but to your parents that anger is WRONG.

Or selfishness, pride, noise, sexiness, affection, shyness, aggressiveness, confidence, fear, etc, etc.

So, you learn to repress your anger. This doesn't get rid of it, though, it just transforms it into what many call "a shadow".

If Anger

(or one of hundreds of other things) is a shadow, you will:

Become triggered whenever you encounter anger in others--the angers of others--well, angers you.

You'll behave in an angry way (sometimes a "passive aggressive" way) A LOT, but you won't recognize it (though everyone else will see it).

You'll suffer many of the things I listed at the top of this email. We could go into this in much more detail, but the point is that this repression is a huge source of suffering. Huge.

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Many things that aren't working in your life are connected to this problem.

Let me make one more distinction, and then I want to give you an elegant solution to this problem.

These supposedly "bad" qualities that we're taught to repress? If we DON'T repress them, or if we UNrepress them later in life, they mature into something wonderful.

In fact they mature into the very qualities we've always admired in others and wished we had.

For instance, selfishness--if left alone when we're small, instead of being repressed--matures (quite naturally) into positive self-regard, and then into self-love, and then into...

genuine love and compassion for others.

If it's repressed, though, this doesn't happen!

I could also show you how anger--or any other supposedly negative quality--matures, if it isn't repressed (or if it's UNrepressed) into a quality, you really want.

So, I hope I convinced you that 1) this is a universal human problem, and 2) it would be a fantastic idea if you could do something about it.

Carpal Tunnel and Nerve Entrapment Syndromes - Symptoms

It is out of my scope of practice to diagnose carpal tunnel, but I can recognize and treat the symptoms. I am one of the few who have the training to treat carpal tunnel with therapeutic massage. I have become aware of a number of clients who are either developing, or have already developed, nerve entrapment or carpal tunnel symptoms. The three major nerves that account for approximately 90% of nerve compression or entrapment in the arm are the ulnar, radial, and media.

Numbness in the Hand

Pain in the Wrist and Forearm

Sleep Interrupted by Pain

Pain Shooting Down the Arm

Finger Numbness

Weakness/Clumsiness of the Hand Resulting in Problems Grasping

Hardness of the Hands

Limited Range of Motion of Wrist or Fingers

Swelling of Forearms, Hands, or Fingers

The Fingers, Hands, Wrist, Forearms, or Elbows Get Increasingly Harder to Move

Swelling Around the Joints of the Elbows, Hands, Wrists, or Fingers

Adhesion (Connective Tissue Stuck to Surrounding Structures) in the Arm

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Why Manage Pain, When You Can Get Rid of It?

Primary long-term goals

How would it be to enjoy a normal life without pain? Example: By using myofascial release techniques, a computer operator who comes in with pain and nerve entrapment symptoms such as carpal tunnel, will be able to return pain free to a normal life following treatment. This is what every step of this treatment is aiming to for. This goal can be obtained and is only limited by circumstances where a client is doing activities to injure ones self, such as lifting weights or over exercising during the healing process

Short-term goals

that will help the client achieve the primary long term goals: Reduce pain, release the strain pattern, restore full range of motion, regain strength, regain coordination, and soften hardened tissues. With the accomplishment of each short-term goal, the client is that much closer to pain free, normal, everyday activities. When all these short-term goals are met, the primary long-term goal is achieved

Specific goals

for an area that will achieve the short-term goals: Release the forward rotation of the shoulder and arm, release the compression on the brachial plexus, release the adhesions that affect the median, radial or lunar nerve, reduce schema (underlying pattern), reduce swelling and inflammation, deactivate trigger points, release myofascial (connective tissue separating muscles) holding patterns, normalize scar tissue, separate bunched groups of muscle fibers. These goals are all specific to the results we want from the actual work of our hands. As these goals are met, we will achieve the short-term goals, and ultimately the primary goal

How it Works

If you need a specialized massage therapist for pain relief, then look no further. Isn't the internet awesome? You're in Sarasota, you've been looking through the list of massage therapists for pain rehabilitation, and you just found the ideal therapist. Excellent! Here's what can be done for you: Produce tangible results, bodywork that clearly is beneficial to your well being. Perform - precise therapeutic protocols to:

Balance and straighten posture

Get rid of chronic pain, long term

Increase athletic performance potential

Make joints more mobile

Initiate the unwinding of the body out of distortions and into balance

Bring the body permanently out of the distorted holding pattern it has been in since birth. Once released this distortion doesn't return

Accelerate the process of balancing the body 10-fold

Add 30% of strength to 1/3 of major muscle groups

Resolve the weight bearing issues between the sacrum and the ilium

Release energetic and emotional blockages that have created pain, distortions and dysfunctions

Why Hire Me?

Well, because you want a therapist that's good.

Really good. In fact, as long as you weren't yearning for a relaxation massage. This type of bodywork is probably exactly what you were looking for and is all I do. Focusing all my attention on my client and being 100% present every second during a session.

Don't get me wrong here..just about any massage you get is going to be beneficial to your health.

So I'm not trying to knock any type of therapy that anyone else does. I have just seen the results of other therapies for the specific conditions that I mention on this website and let's face it, not everyone is going to stay committed to an exercise/stretching routine for the rest of their life. Google "pelvic balancing" and see for yourself. This particular type of therapy brings somebody out of the spiral they have been in since birth permanently and the results are very long-lasting, so in other words you're not going need it forever and you can go back to getting relaxation massages or whatever it is you're used to, if any. Using these protocols on a client with neck pain that radiated numbness down both arms and could not even lie on the table without screaming in pain, and eventually making that pain completely go away is a very powerful healing technique. Similar things happen with this type of bodywork all the time.

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Also working on other therapists from out-of-state who just sought out this treatment

(from a brochure someone gave them) and were trained by some of the best myofascial experts in the country, I noticed their pelvis was not balanced. It was when I finished and probably still is today

Significant results are usually seen after the first session.

Not always, but about 70 % of the time. I really don't think anyone can give you a 100% guarantee that their therapy will work. If they do... you'd better run the other way.

Many of my clients... I bump into a year or two later and I ask them how they're doing.

The usual answer is "good, still no pain." I always ask them " How long did you have that pain?" (typically sciatica, low back or neck pain.) I have heard this a lot "Longer than I can remember." In other words, I make myself obsolete.

Lastly, you'll simply enjoy working with me.

Being one of the therapists that gets my happiness from other people's success (That would be you, right?)