The primary goal of Therapeutic Bodywork, or "fix-up work”, is to resolve the primary issue you are having with your body. This most typically involves resolving issues of chronic pain and stiffness in specific areas of your body. Some of the techniques used are Deep Tissue Massage, Myofascial release, and energetic techniques such as Craniosacral Therapy and Therapeutic Touch. Even though the goal of Therapeutic Bodywork is not relaxation, you are likely to be quite relaxed by the end of such a session.
Some of the benefits of Therapeutic Bodywork sessions include pain relief from repetitive motion, motor vehicle accidents, falls, sport injuries, and surgeries. It also helps relieve the tension and stress that typically gets lodged in the classic chronic pain zones of your body such as the head, neck, shoulders, low back, hips and the joints of your body.
With the Therapeutic Bodywork sessions, you will be resolving your primary concerns, without receiving and experiencing the wholistic benefits of the Rolfing ten session series protocol or recipe. In many cases this involves simply resolving an issue in your physical body. However, within a Therapeutic Bodywork session working with issues of your body-mind (Body Psychology) can and is often used depending on your interests and needs.
Testimonials
After having received two
sessions of Therapeutic Bodywork on the clients forearm weeks after having
undergone surgery:
"Thank you so much. You have helped me many times, but never in such a significant, impressive way."
- Alicen
After one Therapeutic Bodywork session:
Thank you, thank you. I can’t believe the difference in my ankle. My foot is striking the floor differently when I walk. Things are cracking and readjusting and I have some interesting sensations around my left sitting bone. I’m hoping I can hold on to this benefit (which seems like a miracle to me). The wrist is also very much improved. I’m hoping we can repeat the same stuff next week.Thanks again. I’m very, very happy.
- Anonymous
After Receiving two Therapeutic Bodywork sessions (note: she had received the Rolfing 10 sessions series 2 years prior)
Sorry it took so long for me to update you about the condition of my foot, but my foot feels soooo much better, I even forgot it hurt. It has been giving me no trouble at all. It took a bit for it to feel like this after the last session, but it is great now. I am definitely not walking like a cripple in the morning anymore. Thank-you for the the relief, from the dread, of having to walk on my feet in the morning. Have a Happy New Year!! Thank-you for helping mine be better.
- Pam Donahue
"Thank you so much. You have helped me many times, but never in such a significant, impressive way."
- Alicen
After one Therapeutic Bodywork session:
Thank you, thank you. I can’t believe the difference in my ankle. My foot is striking the floor differently when I walk. Things are cracking and readjusting and I have some interesting sensations around my left sitting bone. I’m hoping I can hold on to this benefit (which seems like a miracle to me). The wrist is also very much improved. I’m hoping we can repeat the same stuff next week.Thanks again. I’m very, very happy.
- Anonymous
After Receiving two Therapeutic Bodywork sessions (note: she had received the Rolfing 10 sessions series 2 years prior)
Sorry it took so long for me to update you about the condition of my foot, but my foot feels soooo much better, I even forgot it hurt. It has been giving me no trouble at all. It took a bit for it to feel like this after the last session, but it is great now. I am definitely not walking like a cripple in the morning anymore. Thank-you for the the relief, from the dread, of having to walk on my feet in the morning. Have a Happy New Year!! Thank-you for helping mine be better.
- Pam Donahue
The problems of poor posture, muscle tension, and stress-caused pain are corrected by seeing them through the lens of kinesthetic awareness. Normal kinesthetic awareness is lacking in much of the population and typically overlooked by health care practitioners.
Craig Williamson
Craig Williamson
Book List
Bob Cooley - The Genius of Flexibility - www.thegeniusofflexibility.com
Craig Williamson - Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living Paperback
Miranda Esmonde-White - Aging Backwards – Reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day
Pete Egoscue - Pain Free a Revolutionary Method For Stopping Chronic Pain - http://www.egoscue.com
Rob Garza - An article to promote learning about anatomy and how the human body works. https://www.acls.net/study-guide-body-systems.htm
Craig Williamson - Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living Paperback
Miranda Esmonde-White - Aging Backwards – Reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day
Pete Egoscue - Pain Free a Revolutionary Method For Stopping Chronic Pain - http://www.egoscue.com
Rob Garza - An article to promote learning about anatomy and how the human body works. https://www.acls.net/study-guide-body-systems.htm
Pain Resolution
The Role of the Nervous system - Why do we experience pain?
When pain does not go away, we call it chronic. The question is what is the origins of chronic pain: the type that is always moving around or does not go away? The role of the nervous system is critical in answering this question. It boils down to the nervous system giving our body a pain response. It does so because the nervous system's job is to keep us alive and to survive. So, it will alert us of of any emanate danger and reminds us of any past dangers. The problem is that he nervous system may continue to give us a pain response even if the danger from the past is now gone. It may give a pain response that is disproportionate or to what is actually going on. This is key. Once you learn what the nervous system is trying to protect you from and the danger no longer present, the pain response has the potential to greatly lessen and stop.
Lormimer Moslie -Why Things Hurt - Why is your body giving you a pain response? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
Neil Pearson - Brain Plastisity - http://www.lifeisnow.ca - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66LP2XdyDxA
Silje Endersen Rme - Back Pain study: Major contributor life circumstances / - https://youtu.be/tiwmVTScusg
John E. Sarno, M.D. - 30 years of clinical experience of how we hold our stress in our back – (The Mind-Body Connection)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B2IE0o7diU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjG-8GE2Wf4
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRXCRxNMN_Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIOOURMuS0
Brain Plasticity - Resolution of pain is possible
When the nervous system gives us a pain response over and over (chronic) it sets up a neural pathway between the brain and the area(s) of the body that chronically hurt and the this becomes habitual like a groove in a record. Fortunately, we have found that this chronic response can be changed. This ability for the nervous system to change is called brain plasticity.
You Tube Example - Brain Plasticity
Neil Pearson - http://www.lifeisnow.ca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66LP2XdyDxA
http://www.lifeisnow.ca
Lormimer Moslie -Why Things Hurt - Why is your body giving you a pain response? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs
Neil Pearson - Brain Plastisity - http://www.lifeisnow.ca - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66LP2XdyDxA
Silje Endersen Rme - Back Pain study: Major contributor life circumstances / - https://youtu.be/tiwmVTScusg
John E. Sarno, M.D. - 30 years of clinical experience of how we hold our stress in our back – (The Mind-Body Connection)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B2IE0o7diU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjG-8GE2Wf4
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRXCRxNMN_Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIOOURMuS0
Brain Plasticity - Resolution of pain is possible
When the nervous system gives us a pain response over and over (chronic) it sets up a neural pathway between the brain and the area(s) of the body that chronically hurt and the this becomes habitual like a groove in a record. Fortunately, we have found that this chronic response can be changed. This ability for the nervous system to change is called brain plasticity.
You Tube Example - Brain Plasticity
Neil Pearson - http://www.lifeisnow.ca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66LP2XdyDxA
http://www.lifeisnow.ca
Rolfing Movement Integration
Experience the joy of movement! Move like never before. See how to have better posture, greater athletic performance and to rehabilitate. Learn how to walk, run, stand, work, and/or do your sport more effectively/efficiently. Get acquainted with your breath, and how trauma is held in the body. Rolfing Movement is a system of movement & embodiment education. The purpose is to increase ease, joy, and efficiency of movement, to develop a more powerful sense of self, and to release the stress caused by "gravity resisting" movement patterns. It is a process of exploration, education, and self-discovery. The work is gentle and non-intrusive. The Rolf Institutes description of Rolfing Movement - www.rolf.org/about/movement
Experience the joy of movement! Move like never before. See how to have better posture, greater athletic performance and to rehabilitate. Learn how to walk, run, stand, work, and/or do your sport more effectively/efficiently. Get acquainted with your breath, and how trauma is held in the body. Rolfing Movement is a system of movement & embodiment education. The purpose is to increase ease, joy, and efficiency of movement, to develop a more powerful sense of self, and to release the stress caused by "gravity resisting" movement patterns. It is a process of exploration, education, and self-discovery. The work is gentle and non-intrusive. The Rolf Institutes description of Rolfing Movement - www.rolf.org/about/movement
Breath
Learning to breath fully and properly is fundamental to movement and to pain resolution.
You tube example - The importance of Breath and Exercise. Explained with riding bike - http://www.bicycling.com/training/skills/how-changing-your-breathing-can-improve-your-performance?cid=soc_BicyclingMag_TWITTER_Bicycling__
Nose Breathing for walking and exercising - https://lifespa.com/ayurvedic-treatment-health-topics/nose-breathing
You tube example - The importance of Breath and Exercise. Explained with riding bike - http://www.bicycling.com/training/skills/how-changing-your-breathing-can-improve-your-performance?cid=soc_BicyclingMag_TWITTER_Bicycling__
Nose Breathing for walking and exercising - https://lifespa.com/ayurvedic-treatment-health-topics/nose-breathing
Foundation Training - The Founder
Low Back Rehab / Stretch / Strengthen / Traction - Dr. Eric Goodman
Foundation Training - web site - https://www.foundationtraining.com
The Basic Founder Exercise - Explained & Shown
With Dr. Mercola - http://youtu.be/HKH_JVlTGDQ
The Basic Founder Exercise - Follow Along
Pre-Founder - 1. Modified version of Basic or you are currently in back pain - 4 min-http://youtu.be/aGZlP3jieRI
Basic - 2. Basic introduction - 3 min - http://www.foundationtraining.com/videos_and_blog/free-back-pain-exercise-video
3. Basic plus two others) - 5 min - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOgxWp0WyiI
4. Basic - Advanced - 12 min - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI
Prone (face down) - 5 min - http://youtu.be/vmhu-yZGY_A
Supine (face up) - 5 min - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcJHbV0v11w
Learn more - Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlM5in2IQA
Learn more - Interview with Dr. Mercola - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsbz8qxPGNs
Book - Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence
Practitioner in Edmonton
Ananda Masri -780-399-3424 - http://integratedbody.ca
Essentrics - Therapeutic and Dynamic Movement / Stretching
From the work of Miranda Esmonde-White
Essentrics -
1. A dynamic workout that simultaneously lengthens and strengthens every muscle in the body, resulting in greater joint mobility and lean, long muscles.
2. A full-body technique that works through the muscle chains, liberating and empowering the muscles, relieving them from tension in the process.
3. A completely original workout that draws on the flowing movements of tai chi which create health and balance, the strengthening theories behind ballet which create long, lean, flexible muscles and the healing principles of physiotherapy which create a pain free body.
4. Medical Definition: Eccentric training is defined as active contraction of a muscle occurring simultaneously with lengthening of the muscle.
Essentrics Web site - http://www.essentrics.com/index.html
Classical Stretch web site - http://www.classicalstretch.com
Miranda Esmonde-White - Aging Backwards – Reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day
1. A dynamic workout that simultaneously lengthens and strengthens every muscle in the body, resulting in greater joint mobility and lean, long muscles.
2. A full-body technique that works through the muscle chains, liberating and empowering the muscles, relieving them from tension in the process.
3. A completely original workout that draws on the flowing movements of tai chi which create health and balance, the strengthening theories behind ballet which create long, lean, flexible muscles and the healing principles of physiotherapy which create a pain free body.
4. Medical Definition: Eccentric training is defined as active contraction of a muscle occurring simultaneously with lengthening of the muscle.
Essentrics Web site - http://www.essentrics.com/index.html
Classical Stretch web site - http://www.classicalstretch.com
Miranda Esmonde-White - Aging Backwards – Reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger in 30 minutes a day
Essentrics - Shoulders
Frozen Shoulder
Explanation - https://vimeo.com/20206684
Very short exercise - https://vimeo.com/20216296
Shoulders Isolation Movement - https://www.facebook.com/ofcourseonline/videos/625802524287249/
Explanation - https://vimeo.com/20206684
Very short exercise - https://vimeo.com/20216296
Shoulders Isolation Movement - https://www.facebook.com/ofcourseonline/videos/625802524287249/
Essentrics - Hips
Frozen Hip
Explanation - What is a frozen hip - Read about it (click here)
Movement to Exercise and lubricate the joints - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcBnjYv9gU
Bursitis - Hip Exercise: You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDZb5YPn4U
Bursitis - Hip exercise: Chart format
Explanation - What is a frozen hip - Read about it (click here)
Movement to Exercise and lubricate the joints - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcBnjYv9gU
Bursitis - Hip Exercise: You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPDZb5YPn4U
Bursitis - Hip exercise: Chart format
Fascial Fitness
Learn about Fascial Fitness:
View on You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bQd8XT2I0\
Fascial Fitness explained on a PDF - http://www.theradiantbody.com/files/upload/FascialFitnessTerraRosa.pdf or Click Here
Fascial Fitness web site - http://www.anatomytrains.com/explore/fascialfitness
To purchase Fascial Fitness Exercise DVD’s - http://fasciadvds.com
View on You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bQd8XT2I0\
Fascial Fitness explained on a PDF - http://www.theradiantbody.com/files/upload/FascialFitnessTerraRosa.pdf or Click Here
Fascial Fitness web site - http://www.anatomytrains.com/explore/fascialfitness
To purchase Fascial Fitness Exercise DVD’s - http://fasciadvds.com
Joint Mobility Exercises (Into Flow) - from the work of Scott Sonnon
Into Flow - http://www.intu-flow.com
Into Flow Philophy and Movement Exercies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMPqP7hxRk&feature=relmfu
Joint Mobility Exercises
Beginner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkUEk52YOzo
Intermediate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUvZvBeQm0c
pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1976WyclDA
Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbQTgezuNA
pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKm4Q3nKpQ
Basic Joint Mobility Exercises Stick Figures - Click Here
Scott Sonnon's history - Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxkBqFbbAP0
Into Flow Philophy and Movement Exercies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsMPqP7hxRk&feature=relmfu
Joint Mobility Exercises
Beginner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkUEk52YOzo
Intermediate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUvZvBeQm0c
pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1976WyclDA
Advanced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbQTgezuNA
pt2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKm4Q3nKpQ
Basic Joint Mobility Exercises Stick Figures - Click Here
Scott Sonnon's history - Ted Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxkBqFbbAP0
Corrective Meridian Stretches - The Genius of Flexibility
From the work of Bob Cooley
From the work of Bob Cooley
This is a form of stretching that is rehabilitative, corrective, and dynamic. It involves resistance flexibility or isometric stretching. It also targets and treats the organs via the meridians of the body. It is good for anyone of all abilities.
Bob Cooley - The Genius of Flexabiltiy - www.thegeniusofflexibility.com
A student of Bob Cooley and a teacher of his work - Luther Cowden - http://www.flexiblestrength.com
A series of the dynamic and meridian stretches on you tube with Luther Cowden - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE728D42C14E01F2D
Bob Cooley - The Genius of Flexabiltiy - www.thegeniusofflexibility.com
A student of Bob Cooley and a teacher of his work - Luther Cowden - http://www.flexiblestrength.com
A series of the dynamic and meridian stretches on you tube with Luther Cowden - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE728D42C14E01F2D
Egoscue - Passive Stretching - A Revolutionary Method to Stop Chronic Pain
From the work of Pete Egoscue
Egoscue is a proven method that gets to the root of your chronic pain by returning your body to proper alignment, function and balance.
Web site - http://www.egoscue.com
Pete Egoscue - Pain Free -a Revolutionary Method For Stopping Chronic Pain
Primal Posture - The Gokhale Method - Reduce Pain with correct posture
By the work of Esther Gokhale
Explained on you tube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQ1VqGGU74
- Book - 8 Steps to a Pain - Free Back: (Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot)
- Practitioner
Mati Messager - (587) 937-1730 - Gokhale Method Teacher Bio
- Book - 8 Steps to a Pain - Free Back: (Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot)
- Practitioner
Mati Messager - (587) 937-1730 - Gokhale Method Teacher Bio
The J Spine - The Gokhale Method
Article - Lost Posture: Why Some Indigenous Cultures May Not Have Back Pain - http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/412314701/lost-posture-why-indigenous-cultures-dont-have-back-pain
Primal posture: Ubong tribesmen in Borneo (right) display the perfect J-shaped spines. A woman in Burkina Faso (left) holds her baby so that his spine stays straight. The center image shows the S-shaped spine drawn in a modern anatomy book (Fig. I) and the J-shaped spine (Fig. II) drawn in the 1897 anatomy book Traite d'Anatomie Humaine.
Courtesy of Esther Gokhale and Ian Mackenzie/Nomads of the Dawn
Courtesy of Esther Gokhale and Ian Mackenzie/Nomads of the Dawn
Daily exercise tips for muscles and joints - Click here to read Article
Foam and Ball Rolling
A part of therapeutic bodywork is learning ways that you can help yourself such as with foam and ball rolling. It is a way to give yourself a deep tissue corrective bodywork.
Examples of Foam Rolling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJLxruO3su0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8caF1Keg2XU
Ball Rolling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE2GkEEbiwI&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7S7z3gOMDk&feature=related
Examples of Foam Rolling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJLxruO3su0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8caF1Keg2XU
Ball Rolling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE2GkEEbiwI&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7S7z3gOMDk&feature=related
Where to Purchase
Foam Rollers
Many types - http://www.treadmillfactory.ca/c-84-foam-rollers.html?gclid=CK2ym4nFia0CFc3DKgod71_NoA
Fitter First www.fitter1.com - http://www.fitter1.com/Catalog/Items/FROL.aspx
Rumble Roller (Foam Roller with “spikes”) - http://www.rumbleroller.com
Locations to purchase in Edmonton
Massage Therapy Supply Outlet - South Side - 9206 – 95 Ave - 780-440-1818
Massage Essentials – West Down Town - 10459 – 124 St - 780-701-5018
Fitness Depot
South Side - 4920 – 99 Street – South Side – 780-433-8887
West Side - 10430 – 169 Street West (“service road” of 170 Street)
Health Care Solutions – South Side - 5405 - 99 St - 780-434-3131
Ball Rolling Soft
Ball Rolling Hard
Ball-Stik (Balls with “spikes”)
www.personalcoachproducts.com
http://www.theratek.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=GOOD-PUNKTUR&Category=621bf2af-2a5c-4453-bb09-59842d4f7c50
www.personalcoachproducts.com
http://www.theratek.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=GOOD-PUNKTUR&Category=621bf2af-2a5c-4453-bb09-59842d4f7c50
Foot "Rolling"
Neck "Rolling"
Accu Ball- http://www.relaxusonline.com/AcuBall_Massager_p/l222375.htm
Locations to purchase in Edmonton
Healing Connections 10548 – 115 Street - 780-488-9779
Massage Therapy Supply Outlet 780-440-1818 - (9206 – 95 Ave)
Massage Essentials – 780-701-5018 (10459 – 124 St)
Locations to purchase in Edmonton
Healing Connections 10548 – 115 Street - 780-488-9779
Massage Therapy Supply Outlet 780-440-1818 - (9206 – 95 Ave)
Massage Essentials – 780-701-5018 (10459 – 124 St)
Pressure Point device
EducationAnother important ingredient in Rolfing, Therapeutic Bodywork and general healing your body is by understanding why your body is hurting, how it got that way and what exactly is needed to heal the issue.
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