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Typical
Treatment Session |
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Interview
& Intake: Your therapist will review your
chart and ask you about any special conditions or issues
you may have prior to each session. You will be asked
to complete a comprehensive intake form on your first
visit, including a review of surgeries, major illnesses,
accidents, and any contraindications for treatment.
We also look at a short, general subjective quality-of-life
survey.
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Treatment
Documentation: Pre- and post-treatment photographs
are recorded for each session, documenting compensation
patterns and the progress of your structural integration
treatment program. The photographs are a critical component
of the treatment planning process, as well as a documentation
of of your progress, something you can view each session.
It is not uncommon for new clients to feel uncomfortable
about having their photographs taken, however, they
are often very surprised to see their body for the first
time in four views. It is revealing and educational.
Even the most shy about their photos, often come to
enjoy viewing their progress and appreciate the value
as their treatment program progresses. All photos
are strictly confidential and only used within the clinic,
unless otherwise released by the client for educational
purposes.
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Objective
Measurements: Specific forms of evaluation,
such as osteopathic listening techniques, manual thermal
evaluation, palpation, or myofascial length tests
(MFLT) will be performed to provide a means of evaluating
restrictions in your body and objective measurements
of your progress, comparing before and after treatment.
These evaluation techniques provide detailed information
about myofascial, neural, vascular, or visceral (organ-related)
restrictions in specific areas of your body. Your
therapist will explain how these restrictions create
compensation patterns and how they affect daily activities
in your normal life, exercise, and sports.
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Evaluation,
Analysis & Client Education:Your therapist
will go through each of your photos with you and explain
what types of compensation patterns are present in your
fascial structure. The results of the myofascial length
tests will be explained and how they confirm and objectively
measure aspects of your compensation patterns.
One of the most valued parts of the treatment program
for clients is the education they get about their body
and how it functions (or the "why" behind
the dysfunction). Our clients become empowered to participate
in their own healing. The pain or dysfunction they have
experienced ceases to be a "black box" generating
fear or frustration. With understanding and education,
they begin to engage in the treatment process and become
partners with their therapist.
At a deeper level, the
body itself incorporates the consciousness of new information
and moves toward function and healing. Research has
shown that the quality and level of pain experience
by patients is directly influenced by their belief system
about their condition, often exacerbated by fear or
frustration from lack of knowledge about their condition
or mode of healing.
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Education
- Computer Graphics: Your therapist may show
you computer graphics to provide educational information
about your condition or treatment, such as anatomy
views, session photographs, or functional anatomy
models. While your therapist is working with you on
the treatment table, she or he may show you images
of the muscles, ligaments, viscera, or fascia that
are being manually treated.
Often our clients comment how valuable this educational
tool is for them, helping them to understand what is
happening to them as we treat them. Most important,
the client begins to both see and feel how interconnected
their body is and why dysfunction result from seemingly
distant, unrelated parts of their body.
A typical
response from a client goes something like this:
"I know I hurt 'there', but in never understood
why. Now I do. It makes sense now. I wasn't imagining
something".
Validation and removing the mystery behind pain and
dysfunction goes a long way toward healing.
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Integrated
Treatment: Treatment is performed on a massage
table, using integrated soft tissue manual release
techniques. All soft tissues are addressed based on
the comprehensive integrated evaluation process. Each
treatment program is custom to each individual client.
Clients are encouraged to actively participate in
the treatment sessions and are draped during treatment
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Client
Movement & Postural Reeducation: Movement
education is an important component of the treatment
process. Habitual movement patterns often accompany
dysfunctional compensation patterns. Your manual therapy
treatment program works on your fascia and neuromuscular
system to release dysfunctional patterns and restore
the natural, intrinsic functional organization. Movement
education helps "link up", connect, and integrate
all the changes that occur from the treatment and allow
your body to move in a more efficient, less painful
manner.
Movement
education taps into the wisdom of your body and brings
that wisdom back into consciousness, often lost due
to injury, trauma, or habitual posture or emotional
holding patterns.
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Brochures
and Educational Handouts: We have educational
handouts, personal diary forms, brochures, and other
information available to our clients to help them participate
in their treatment program. We also have other associates
in health services whom we refer clients.
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Library
& Reception: Clients are welcome to peruse
our library of books available in your reception area,
view videos, and look at our binder of recommended books.
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Preparation
for Your Treatment Session
For the health, safety
and benefit of every client, we ask that you:
- Please
turn off your cell phone before each session. We
do make exceptions for critical situations where
the client must maintain contact for emergency reasons.
- Please take a full-body
shower before coming to your session.
- Please - no perfumes or
shaving lotions. Some clients are allergic to fragrances.
- Please take time to “be
present” before you come and “wind down”
as much as possible.
- Women - please bring a
hair tie.
- Women - for those of you
who do wear bras, please bring a back-closure or
front-closure bra (sports bras do not allow access
to areas of the back and sides for treatment). Everyone's
degree of modesty is unique and varies considerably.
We will do everything possible to support your degree
of modesty while still providing access to tissues
that need treatment.
- Men and women - if you
chose to wear underwear during treatment, please
bring underwear that is loose to allow access for
treatment (spandex and tight underwear do not allow
access to areas of the hips and buttocks for treatment).
All clients are draped during treatment sessions.
Some clients prefer to be completely undressed and
use the draping only.
- Clients are draped during
sessions and we will attempt to accommodate individual
levels of modesty, and at the same time maintain
access to your body for treatment purposes.
- CHILDREN (Under the age
of 18) - Children getting treatment must have one
of their parents or an assigned adult present in
the treatment room during the entire treatment session.
We take special care to make sure the child feels
safe and secure, including degree of undress. A
loose-fitting swim suit or gym shorts works if the
child does not want to dress down to their underwear.
We also recommend
that you review our web page on Healing
and Inspiration. This is especially important for
clients who are suffering from chronic pain or chronic
conditions, however it is applicable to every client
and their healing process.
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