About
At Fusion Massage, my mission is to get people out of pain and dysfunction by understanding and treating its root causes. These root causes are shockingly overlooked, and pain itself is misunderstood by most medical practitioners.
Coaching the Body:
Coaching the Body (CTB) is a an extremely effective system for understanding and treating acute and chronic pain, even in severe cases where orthopedic surgery and intensive physical therapy have offered little Improvement.
Coaching the Body was created by Chuck Duff at the Thai Bodywork School and Coaching The Body Institute. It is a unique synthesis of trigger point therapy, Thai bodywork, osteopathy, asian medicine, movement arts and modern pain science. I am certified in Coaching the Body treatment for Rotator Cuff/Shoulder Pain and Hip/Knee/Sciatica Pain. As a CTB practitioner, I use the framework of Trigger Point Therapy to understand where pain is coming from. Most pain is derived from contracture muscle fibers (trigger points) that refer pain to another location through neuroplastic upregulation by interneurons at the spinal cord. This is modern pain science and well documented.
The contributing contracture fibers are found by palpation, then restored to normal length and function through various forms of manual therapy: compression and stretch with Thai techniques, percussion/vibration with Muscle Liberator, electronic point stimulation, and muscle energy techniques like contract/relax.
After manual therapy using passive and active range of motion, the client is instructed in how to self-treat with compression, integrative movement and corrective exercise.
At Fusion Massage, I am extremely thankful for this work and feel blessed to have found it!!