Many patients with chronic pain complaints have a delayed healing response due to the inability of the body to clean itself up. In order to have proper healing, oxygen and nutrients need to be delivered via the arteries to the irritated tissues and the waste products and inflammatory chemicals need to be returned to the heart via the venous and…

Dysfunctions of the pelvis and lumbar spine are one of the most commonly seen areas of problem in manual therapy.  In spite of this, it remains one of the areas that is the least effectively treated.  It is common to hear patient’s complain that the recently treated lumbopelvic dysfunctions have returned. The reason why these dysfunctions return are usually because…

Many complaints we see patients have are not purely of musculoskeletal origin. Often the irritation also involves an organ, the nervous system, and/or circulatory congestion.  Visceral irritation may be causing pain to occur in a musculoskeletal structure. The reverse may also be true. During our recent session – Treatment of Respiratory System Disorders Using a Manual Therapy Approach – we…