Several years ago, I flew down to Berkeley, CA for advanced training on working with scoliosis. It confirmed what I already knew about working with people with scoliosis and refined my techniques. Scoliosis is defined as a condition in which a person’s spine is curved from side to side. Some of the vertebrae in a … Continue reading The Straight Goods on Scoliosis

Visual Image Therapy for a Broken Wrist Briefly, visual image therapy was first developed by neuroscientist, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran for people suffering from phantom limb pain and/or paralysis. This researcher speculated that since the phantom pain/.paralysis was a construct of the brain, if the person was able to see the limb as whole and complete … Continue reading Give Me a Break: Diary of a Broken Wrist Part V

Pain Is an Opinion of the Brain I have had no pain since I broke my arm and even at the outset I wasn't on massive amounts of pain killers. As a matter of fact the strongest medication I took was Ibuprofen and that was only for the first 4 days. How is this possible? … Continue reading Give Me a Break: Diary of a Broken Wrist Part IV

One Handed Strategies in a Two Handed World “Why do you have cling wrap around your cast?” Dr. Campbell was the 3rd person in as many minutes to query something that seemed logical to me. “Actually it’s so that I can dress myself more easily; so my clothes won’t snag on the rough bits as … Continue reading Give Me a Break: Diary of a Broken Wrist Part III

The Aftermath: Defusing the Trauma I was down, could hardly catch my breath, my wrist was lifeless and I was in trouble. As a Feldenkrais practitioner (functional movement specialist) I knew that what I did in the first few hours after an accident would determine the speed of my recovery; so when I finally was able to get … Continue reading Give Me a Break: Diary of a Broken Wrist Part II

An Ounce of Prevention…Long story short: I broke my wrist when I slipped on an icy patch of sidewalk. In hindsight, I can totally relate to that old maxim, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Before I left for my walk I thought about putting the grips on my boots (grips … Continue reading Give Me a Break; Diary of a Broken Wrist

Do you stand with your knees locked? Did you know that your body’s response to locked knees is to inhibit movement in the rest of the body? If it was only a matter of releasing those muscles when you’re going to move it wouldn’t be such a problem; but the habit of tension created from … Continue reading Locked Knees Prevent Freedom of Movement