What is the significance of restrictions?

To create and enhance health, it is not possible to separate one part of the body from another. All parts are connected, and must work together harmoniously, or there will be various problems. Restrictions, or limitations of movement in the body, cause pain or ill-health. A muscle spasm prevents movement in a certain direction; an impinged nerve creates pain down the arm and into the hand. Arthritis, a roughening of the interior surface of joints, makes movement grinding and painful. Less obvious are restrictions in other systems of the body, such as the cranial, digestive, cardiopulmonary, or nervous systems.

How can we locate and address all these numerous restrictions?

If your neck hurts, you naturally feel that the problem is in your neck. Most conventional tests and treatments will focus on your neck. Often, however, the real source of the problem is not where it seems to be, and is "silent". Using hundreds of small gentle tests to find restrictions in the body's tissues, the therapist employs a system for ranking those restrictions to identify which need treatment with recoil and which do not.

What is a Mechanical Link treatment like?

Most people find it very relaxing; some even fall asleep. The recoil treatment, which comes at the end of the session, is a very subtle technique that can be applied even to sensitive or fragile structures. The effects of Mechanical Link can be both dramatic and subtle, and may be noticeable for several weeks following treatment. Increased mobility produces changes throughout the body, and there is often a period of adjustment. You may find yourself moving in new ways, or notice parts of your body that you were unaware of before.

What kind of problems can be addressed with Mechanical Link?

Because Mechanical Link is a comprehensive system that addresses all connective tissues, and releases restrictions in ways not otherwise possible, it can address many kinds of problems. For example, release of one of the most common primary restrictions offers relief from restless leg syndrome, many kinds of headaches and back pain, and a cessation of the scoliosis process.

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Muscle Energy Technique (MET) combines a way of determining where there are areas of dysfunction, and a means of correcting these dysfunction. MET uses the client's effort, in very small amounts, in association with the therapist's effort. Careful examination of the tissues, and the degree and quality of their movement, gives the therapist information about where joints or muscles are not functioning optimally. Often, normalization of the musculature is all that is required to produce relief of symptoms and more normal function. MET is gentle, painless, and produces immediate changes that are long-lasting. Click here for demonstration of Muscle Energy Technique.

There are several schools of thought on CranialSacral work. John Upledger, D.O. leads the current, most recognized kind of CranialSacral Therapy, taught through the Upledger Institute. This form uses indirect technique and light pressure (5 grams) to affect the cerebrospinal fluid mechanism. I have training in Upledger CranialSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release. I also trained in Cranial Sacral Integration, developed by Dallas Hancock, D.C. and Florence Barber. This direct technique focuses on moving the cranial bones through their ranges of motion (yes, they do have motion!), which facilitates a normalization of the body's skeletal structure. This method also provides a form of manual assessment using Applied Kinesiology, or muscle testing.