Healing Hands Massages & Sport Therapy

In this industrial world, we have change the way we live, move and eat which as impacted our health and have been relying on medications to help us heal this chronic inflammation that is silent for decade or present through various symptoms that we either ignore or treat individually without success as the chronic inflammation is still present, how can we treat and heal from it, well we need to look at our gut, healing our gut may heal our inflammation and our symptoms this is my story ... how I have healed long lasting symptoms that were putting a lot of pressure on my life for the last 15 years. Now Im ready to add functional nutrition as a way to treat and heal chronic pain and more health dysfunction with my clients.

After 2 episodes talking about feet, shoes and their impact on our feet shape and low back, in this episode is shared tips and suggestions about what to do to prevent the dysfunction mentioned previously.

Wearing heels change the whole balance and stability from the ankle,knee, hips, low back and all the way up to the head. In this episode we invite you to follow us into an experiement for you to experience the difference of being barefoot and elevate like wearing heels and the adjustements in place by your body and will share the consequences that may occur.

26 bones, 33 joints and 100 muscles just to control our foot, for some reason the way our shoes are shaped, compromise our foot mobility and restrain from the right firing order to be done when we walk which over time make cause bunions, and toes deformities such as hammer and can have a cascade effect and cause knee pain hip pain or low back pain, so what can we do to counter balance it? Just listen to find out.

I often hear mentionning their fear or disengagement toward physical activity to avoid injury, so they prefer to stay sedentary but this lifestyle has consequences. In this episode we discuss how to be active and prevent injury.

Heat therapy can be used in different ways to help reduce and manage pain.In this episode I discussed different thermotherapy approach and how to use them, in which circumstances, they can help.

As we spend some time seated in our society from a young age... We are decreasing the activation of our glutes muscles, as a consequence other groups of muscle are overworking and causing compensation and with a lack of variety of movement and lack of activation of this latter, we are losing capacity of leg extension and increase risk of back pain.

if you don't use you it, you will lose it. The age process start from the age of 25, this is why we start getting stiff and start experiencing all these aches and pains. To keep yourself pain free and maintain healthy range of movement, you need to keep moving to lubricate your joints to strenghten your soft tissue (fascia), bones. If you don't use your capacity of movement overtime you may not be able to move as much so keep moving. Motion is lotion.

Some people have a misconception of what's sport massage? Thinking it is for athletes, active people only (or a painful treatment check episode 4 about this). Which in fact, is a treatment for everyone, from every level. This podcast will give you more understanding on the benefits of sport massage, and its goal to help you.

No pain no gain, has been applied to massage therapy for decades, we need to understand the nuances of being in discomfort during a massage which is different to being in pain...We need to understand the potential consequences for the :client perception, nervous system cooperation, soft tissue response, physiological response

People often ask: how often they should get a treatment/ massage.Everyone is different and it depends on your needs, what you are trying to achieve: reduce stress, being pain free, keep your soft tissue tension balanced... It depends as well on the initial tissue texture, how quickly your body is responsive to treatment and if you are having a variety of movement, activities to your mind and body balanced.

In general, we take greater care of our car than ourselves, everytime we hear a weird sound we bring it the the mechanic to avoid a breakdown. The same as taking care of other than ourselves by listening to things episode you may hear an example of what may happen when you don't listen to the "signal" : the pain, and how bodywork can help

For decades and decades we have been advised to use ice on recent injury/ trauma, explaining that we need to slow down and reduce inflammation process. But recent research showed that ice is detrimental for our recovery. Listen to understand what to do alternatively to improve recovery post injury.Ref: "Iced! The Illusionary Treatment Option by Gary R. Reinl"