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It’s been my honor to serve the Oklahoma city community for the last 14 years. It’s now time for me to close this part of my practice down. I will be focusing on continuing work in Boulder and Longmont and looking to develop a small satellite practice somewhere closer to home. Working with you all has meant a lot to me on a personal and professional level. I wish you all the best.

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Re-stabilize the ankle  this is an excellent all-around rehabilitation for the ankle but also to help with plantar fasciitis, because you need to retrain and recoordinate it, not ...

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Long driving trip bumper stretches I show and explain ways to use your car bumper to keep your back healthy on a long drive.

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Stuff toDo when driving long distances to take care of your lower back

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Simple move for cervical instability

I think few people realize how complex the work of structural integration can be. For one thing, it’s not only about “structure.” Sometimes you work to get a chronically tensed muscle to relax, using what we call indirect techniques and what the rest of the world calls strain/counterstrain technique. Sometimes it’s about getting inflamed nerves to ease, either by gently shearing inflamed edemic tissue or simply slackening the nerves by proximating your hands along the skin, or perhaps a little deeper for a deeper nerve. sometimes it’s about working the myofascia and sometimes the only thing that helps is working deep into bone. Sometimes you use the viscera as a handle to release the soma, sometimes the other way around. sometimes you’re really leaning on the tissue to get glide between different layers, sometimes you’re really not. Sometimes it’s about teaching someone how to stabilize an area through a gross muscular action, sometimes it’s about helping them perceive a release and balance already achieved through hands-on work.This is all part of the work, and revelation, of my practice.
I guess for me it’s all about movement and flow.

Are stairs challenging? Read this

This post, hopefully pointing the way to being injury-free going up or down stairs, is taken from an email I just sent to a client:
We talked about how the sit/stand training that you do all the time is excellent preparation for going upstairs. The preparation for going downstairs starts with a backward step. Simply take a step forward, stay with your weight on that front foot, the back leg stretched behind you with the tip of your toe on the floor. Slowly drop your weight back through the back foot until your weight is fully on that back heel. This will be the use of your leg, from toe to heal, that you use going downstairs. Do you want to keep your weight upright as you descend stairs to make sure that your weight comes down over that heel, not forward over the toes. When your weight plummets forward through the knee, strain results.

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