Manual Therapy
Because no two bodies arrive at my table with the same history, every session is custom blended and tailored to meet your body’s specific needs.
Your Manual Therapy Guide
Each session will always be different from the last, building on each one as we work toward a common and understood goal. All treatments are made up of multiple techniques blended together to create a well rounded and holistic approach for you and your specific needs.
MyoFascial Release
Fascia is a web-like, layered matrix of connective tissue that surrounds and connects every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ in the body. When healthy, it moves fluidly. But injury, stress, and repetitive movement patterns cause it to tighten and restrict, creating pain and limiting mobility throughout the entire system. Myofascial release uses sustained, gentle pressure to soften and elongate these restrictions, restoring fluid movement and relieving tension at its source rather than just treating symptoms.
NeuroMuscular Therapy
A highly effective technique that targets scar tissue, trigger points, and chronically shortened muscles resulting from repetitive injury or postural stress. Precise, sustained pressure interrupts pain cycles, restores normal muscle length, and reestablishes healthy movement patterns. It’s not always the most comfortable to receive. But results are often immediate, freeing up restricted range of motion and releasing tension that other approaches can’t reach.
Active Release Therapy
A precise, movement-based technique that targets scar tissue and adhesions in muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. By combining specific tension with active movement, this duo breaks up restrictions that cause pain, tightness, and reduced range of motion. It’s particularly effective for repetitive strain injuries, nerve entrapments, and chronic tension patterns that don’t respond to traditional massage alone.
Sport Performance
A blend of several complimentary techniques designed to improve muscle function and flexibility. This type of treatment was originally created to serve pro athletes but through the years, more and more people leading active lives have found relief from pain and tension using these techniques.
Pin & Stretch
Creating movement in the joint while applying pressure in the muscle is an easy way to allow the body to let go of certain holding patterns. It helps open up the joint complex and promotes greater flexibility and range of motion. It also reminds the body that it can move in ways it doesn’t normally move to decrease compensation patterns.
PNF Stretching
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). Considered an optimal stretching method due to the safety and efficiency of the exercise. It increases range of motion, improves motor performance, and aids in rehabilitation. The muscle releases using a resisted contraction during a stretch. The effects are often immediate and noticeable.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy shifts posture, stresses joints, and constantly challenges the body to adapt. Prenatal manual therapy offers safe, specialized treatment to relieve common discomforts including low back pain, sciatica, hip tightness, and round ligament pain. Every session is tailored to your trimester and specific needs, supporting both comfort and function throughout your pregnancy.
Postpartum Recovery
The postpartum body goes through significant structural and hormonal changes that require a thoughtful, specialized approach. Treatments focus on restoring core function, addressing diastasis recti, releasing tension from feeding and carrying positions, and supporting the body’s return to equilibrium and optimal movement and strength.
Core Building
True core function goes far beyond the superficial muscles targeted in traditional exercise. This approach focuses on reactivating the deep stabilizing muscles of the trunk, the diaphragm, pelvic floor, transverse abdominis, and multifidus to restore proper movement patterns, reduce pain, and build a foundation of lasting strength and stability.
Nerve Gliding
A gentle technique that restores the natural mobility of nerves as they move through surrounding muscles and connective tissue. When nerves become restricted or compressed, they can cause pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness along their entire pathway. Specific guided movements mobilize the nerve, relieving symptoms and improving function without aggravating sensitive tissue.
Thai Sports Therapy
A dynamic blend of traditional Thai massage techniques and sports therapy principles. Using assisted stretching, compression, and joint mobilization, this treatment improves flexibility, releases deep muscular tension, and restores range of motion. Performed fully clothed, it’s particularly effective for athletes and active individuals.
CranioSacral Therapy
The kind of treatment that is beneficial for everyone of all ages and most every condition. By applying extremely light pressure (5 grams or the weight of a nickel), space is held, and the body heals and finds balance while feeling supported. Clients remain fully clothed throughout the entire session, unless it is a blended treatment with other therapies that require clothes off.
Massage Gun Therapy
A targeted percussive therapy that delivers rapid pulses deep into connective tissue and muscle to release tension, improve circulation, and accelerate recovery. Effective for quickly minimizing tension, reducing post-workout soreness, and improving range of motion, it works particularly well as part of a blended session to warm up tissue before manual work or flush out inflammation after.
Cupping & Muscle Scraping
A blend of two old ancient eastern practices. This powerful combination works from two directions. Cupping lifts and decompresses tissue to draw out stagnant blood and fluid, while muscle scraping applies directional pressure to break up adhesions and stimulate tissue repair. Together they create a comprehensive release that improves circulation, reduces inflammation, softens scar tissue, and restores mobility more effectively than either technique alone.
Self MyoFascial Release
Release tension and take an active role in your recovery using specific tools and techniques I’ve created to keep you feeling balanced, flexible, and moving well. Self myofascial release puts the tools of manual therapy in your hands, using foam rollers, massage balls, and targeted techniques to address your own tension patterns between sessions. I also teach simple lymphatic drainage techniques you can do at home to reduce inflammation, support recovery, and maintain the progress we make together on the table.
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