Upper Back Pain

Injury and Upper Back Pain

Here’s a brief overview of our approach to solving this kind of injury and upper back pain at the Functional Health Clinic:   Check out the three images as we go through.   PRE – My client came in to clinic with an 8-9/10 high level stabbing and constant pain in their upper back (left[…]

Left Knee Pain

Left Knee Pain

Let’s take a look at a client case of left knee pain in clinic. What would you do? You’re experiencing chronic knee pain or you’re a Practitioner who helps people solve knee pain. What steps would you take? There are many different ways to achieve success in this case.  There are many valid assessments, therapies,[…]

Bowen Therapy Technique

BODYWORK – Bowen Therapy

Bowen Therapy or The Bowen Technique is a hands-on method that acts on the soft tissue (fascia) of the body.  It can be very light in pressure and is applied to specific points on the body in order to achieve a range of different responses. There are many valuable forms of Bodywork and we’ve explored the[…]

Functional Health Clinic | Functional Health and Performance

SCAR RELEASE – On a 40 year old Injury

Martin had a scar on the heel area of his right foot.  He had absolutely no pain in this area and no obvious link between it and any of his health challenges. [CASE STUDY Excerpt…..]  He hadn’t really given it much thought for approximately forty years, since he was 16 years old, when at the[…]

coccyx_asymmetry

Coccyx Release and Knee Pain….Case Study Excerpt

[….Case Study Excerpt] The Coccyx is located at the very bottom of the spine (the ‘tail bone’) and it can be very influential with regards to pain and function on many levels.  If you’ve every ‘slipped and banged’ your coccyx you will know how tender and bruised it can be.  Yet – it can still[…]

Cervical Cranial Muscles Brain Fog

Connective Tissues and the Dura

Connective Tissues: Muscles, Fascia, Tendons, Ligaments and Skin. …..Excerpt from Martin’s Case Study:  Read more about the connective tissues and the dura here. …..Anatomically there are lots of different muscles and tissues to label here.  So we’ll stick to discussing the ones that had most relevance in this Case Study on brain fog and fatigue.[…]

Paranasal Sinuses Brain Fog

Initial Sinus Clear Out…..Excerpt

The Initial Sinus Clear-out and Alleviated Brain Fog! …..Excerpt from Case Study:  Read more about the sinus clear out and the full version here. Would you believe that it took only one session of Bodywork (The Bowen Technique) to almost completely alleviate the Brain Fog, headaches and sense of pressure in his head? The brain[…]

Therapeutic Modalities

Therapeutic Modalities applied…..Case Study Excerpt

Martin worked with me for 6 months Let’s introduce the Therapeutic Modalities that he embraced to achieve some outstanding results: [……….Case Study Excerpt] STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION The first of the Therapeutic Modalities does what it says on the tin.  Hands-on bodywork that helps to integrate and align the structure and tissues of the body.  When we enhance the form,[…]

Sciatic Pain

IN CLINIC: Sciatic Pain

  sciatic pain [ sahy-at-i-kuh ] – “Condition characterized by pain going down the leg from the lower back. This pain may go down the back, outside, or front of the leg” – Here is some clinical insight for anyone experiencing Sciatic pain.  Find out how ‘D’ alleviated their sharp, stabbing hip and shooting leg pain[…]

Fascial Web

The Awareness of the Fascial System and Bowen Therapy

I often get asked what is Bowen Therapy and how does it work? There are many ways to answer this question – just like for any bodywork, manual or structural integration therapy. Fascial Release It’s sometimes referred to as a fascial release technique. Fascia is a connective tissue that runs through and gives our body’s[…]