The Balance:

Since humans began to walk upright, the body has been embroiled in a never ending battle to maintain ideal musculoskeletal balance and equilibrium.  Forces from gravity to nature, nurture, society and culture compress our spines, drop our heads, slump our shoulders, and shorten our stride urging our bodies into a vast array of musculoskeletal imbalances. And without outside help, over time the body adapts to theses imbalances creating a new state of equilibrium that is inefficient, painful, and often leads to injury.  The goal at Balanced Bodywork, through the application of manual and movement therapies, is to help each client restore and retain his or her own ideal musculoskeletal balance before chronic pain and injury occur.
 

 The Body:

The human body has often been described as a machine.  That may be true, if you can imagine that machine being a virtually endless web of malleable, spongy, plastic like material held together by another web of malleable, spongy, plastic like material the healthcare community call fascia.   Fascia is an uninterrupted, three-dimensional web of tissue that extends from head to toe, from front to back, from interior to exterior. It is responsible for maintaining structural integrity; for providing support and protection; and acts as a shock absorber.  Stress and strain patterns in certain identifiable swatches of this fascial web cause nerve endings in tendons, ligaments,  and muscle bellies to send signals to the brain resulting in pain, soreness, aches, etc.  Balanced Bodywork focuses on assessing these stress and strain patterns and facilitating an “unwinding” process in the affected swatches of fascia.
 

The Work:

Keeping in mind the ideas of comprehensive pain management and customization, Think of the following therapies as more of a brief list of tools used to provide effective treatment than a menu of services from which to choose.  One or all may be applied in each session depending on each client’s specific needs.