It is hard for the general public to wrap their head around the idea that the Aboriginal French people could provide differential diagnostics, treatment and healing with just their hands. This is my quest to dial the precision of my hands for differential diagnostics and treatment that led me down a deeper road of curiosity and understanding. What if?

Verbiage is important not just in the physical therapy world but in all professions.

Let’s first tackle a misconception from our medical community. Your spine, hips, SI joint are not out of place. They do not need realignment unless they are dislocated. This would mean that you experienced trauma or have significant hypermobility connective tissue dysfunction, like Ehlers Danlos syndrome (EDS).

I went into visceral manipulation course hoping to learn another way for clients then having to take so many supplements and pharmaceuticals. The obvious hope of learning in my first course focusing on the abdomen was how to help the drainage pathways so patients and athletes could eliminate inflammation and inflammatory pathogens that create musculoskeletal pain. The reason most clients end up in front of me.

My hope is that collectively by sharing information and my journey that we can elevate our current sick care system and make changes so that we actually support providing health care. I truly believe lives could change.

It sounds a lot like lions and tigers and bears… oh my. The parasympathetic nervous system, vagal tone and polyvagal theory are a complex topic that we will attempt to break down and simplify.

We now understand that our bodies reactions are a direct correlation triggered by our nervous system due to automatic (primitive) processes, past experiences and sensory feedback.

I am learning that there are many other people out there struggling with different health challenges as I walk this journey recovering from the effects of toxic mold. The one thing that we all have in common is the desire to help others, the necessity to self-advocate and the feeling of isolation.

What is VEGF and why is it important?

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor improves delivery of nutrient and oxygen via capillary blood flow and stimulates the growth of new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis).

The weather began to warm and whether you hit the ground running or you were at the end of your spring sport season and wore your body down, you are most likely recovering. As you are progressing from that spring time strain, my patients have asked “to stretch or not to stretch????”

It may be a fairly simple rehabilitation plan, but when you begin chasing pain I have found (in my experience) that there is bigger root issue.