Back and Neck Injury/Expert Profile

Expertise

Questions concerning: back pain exercises back muscle pain back muscle spasms degenerative disc disease disc bulge dizziness groin pain groin pull lifting injuries lower back pain lower back exercises sciatica whiplash injuries Hanna Somatics headaches iliopsoas bursitis iliopsoas muscle iliopsoas syndrome iliopsoas stretch movement limitations psoas stretch psoas muscle pain psoas stretch psoas major psoas muscle somatics somatic exercises somatic education TMJ Dysfunction / TMD

Experience in the area

In practice since 1990. Two years on staff at a hospital Wellness and Rehabilitation Center.

Organizations belong to
Association for Hanna Somatic Educators, Association of Bodywork and Massage Professionals, Association for Humanistic Psychology

Publications

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, American Journal of Pain Management, Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Mind-Body Arts and Sciences. More complete listing at somatics.com/gold.htm

Education/Credentials

Certifications: Hanna Somatic Education, the Dr. Ida P. Rolf method of Structural Integration (partial list)

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

More popular understanding of clinical somatic education of an effective option for chronic conditions.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

People have a universal reaction to injury and stress: we tighten up. That tension, which many medical practitioners miss in their diagnoses, causes muscle fatigue, pain, joint damage, and nerve pain.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Perhaps as many as 50% chronic pain, and conditions of misalignment or restricted movement treated by chiropractic, massage, and other methods of therapeutic manipulation have at their root muscular tension and imbalances. The most direct way to clear up such problems is to improve the ability to control the involved muscles, both to exert them and to relax them.