With the coming of winter, comes numerous outside chores. When you go outside, it may be for vigorous activities like harvesting your garden, raking leaves, pruning or soon to come, shoveling snow. To help prevent soreness and injury, make sure your muscles are warm. Wear layers and start your activities slowly, gradually stepping up the pace but being careful Read More
Pain Relief
Massage Therapy Helps Repetitive Strain Injuries and Chronic Pain
Relieve pain and restore movement Repetitive activities can cause pain and dysfunction. These are commonly known as repetitive strain injuries (RSI’s). These types of injuries can affect anyone from tennis players to office workers, golfers to carpenters. Frozen shoulder, tendinitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, and plantar fascitis are some examples of RSI’s. Do you Read More
Ida Rolf’s Vision and The Secret Life of Fascia : Part Three
At the end of part two of this series, we left Dr. Ida Rolf at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, which at that time was at the very center of the ‘counter culture’ and a haven for transformational junkies. It was at Esalen that she finally had a growing group of students hand-picked Read More
Cranio Sacral Therapy Helps Neck Pain
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am biased. My wife is Pat, the Director of BodyWorks and a Cranio Sacral Therapist among her many talents and I was her patient. Pain Would Not Go Away Over the last few weeks I had pain in my right shoulder/neck/upper back. While massage therapy helped, it did Read More
If You Know Someone Who Is Ill
Soothing touch can provide solace and relieve pain Having just lost my father a few months ago, I can personally attest that caring touch can be a blessing for someone who is very ill or frail. Being in that condition almost always means the loss of control over one’s life and can leave a person feeling quite Read More
