These videos discuss causes and exercises for relieving jaw pain. The graphical representations and explanations are very good and align with my experience. Dr. Joe Damiani is doing excellent work as an educator. DR JOE DAMIANI These videos are...
Category - Manual and Movement Therapies
Explores touch therapy, movement education via Sprike App, collagen and Vitamin C’s role, vision optimization, reflex integration, fascia significance, body reading, and natural arm positioning to enhance physical health and movement.
An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Human Potential When a client enters manual therapy, we begin a process that goes beyond mere symptom relief. Our goal is to help individuals maximize their potential by optimizing their interaction with...
Understanding, Programming, and Manipulating Our Body’s Connective Tissue Our bodies are marvels of biological engineering, with complex systems working in harmony to keep us alive and moving. While we often focus on bones, muscles, and...
John Upledger’s concept of the “Still Point” is a central element in craniosacral therapy, a form of alternative treatment he developed. This concept is based on the idea that the body possesses a natural rhythmic movement...
Our ability to move is governed by non-conscious stimulus-response patterns called reflexes. Although some of the responses are learned, there is a vast amount of involuntary, automatic engagement of our bodies in our actions. As we do not...
The mission of manual and movement therapies is to improve the functional/structural performance of the human (or other animal) body. Often these modalities orient to alleviating pain, but goals including enhanced athletic performance are...
Our sense of self rests upon a multilayered morphology that evolved from a single-celled organism into a potentially multi-planetary species. Each more complex evolutionary layer rests upon and is supported by an underlying more ancient...
When I started doing bodywork it didn’t take long before I began to realize that there was a significant correlation between how my clients sit, stand, and move and their complaints. Early in my practice, educating clients on stance and...
The term: Structure/Function is a core “thinking tool” of physiology and is extensively relied upon in this blog. An example is our “Startle Reflex”: during activation, the structure freezes providing the function of immobility, making it more...
Exaptation is a fascinating concept in evolutionary biology, referring to the process by which a trait originally developed for one purpose is co-opted for a new use. The term was introduced by paleontologists Stephen Jay Gould and Elizabeth...