Tensegrity Physical Therapy

08/27/2025

🌿 Continuing Education at Tensegrity 🌿

We’re excited to share that Tensegrity’s own massage therapist, Chad McCarty, LMT, will be teaching a one-day continuing education course right here at our downtown Eugene clinic!

Fantastic Fascia: Water Science, Embryology, and Biotensegrity
📅 Saturday, September 6th, 2025
🕘 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Tensegrity Physical Therapy | 244 E Broadway, Eugene
🎓 7 CEUs for Oregon LMTs

This course dives deep into fascia—the body’s living connective tissue network—exploring its role in movement, hydration, and whole-body function. The day combines lecture with hands-on practice, including:
✨ Anatomy & Physiology of the Fascial System
✨ Fascial Release Techniques
✨ Basics of Lymphatic Massage
✨ Insights from water science, embryology, and biotensegrity

If you’re a licensed massage therapist—or know someone who is—this is a great opportunity to deepen your skills and learn from Chad in an intimate, focused setting.

🔗 Register here: https://forms.gle/9b3hUPRtPvwa5CWp8

📌 Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/share/1EBG1LE3cj/

Space is limited, so early registration is recommended. Please share this post or tag an LMT friend who might be interested!

07/08/2025

💪 Strengthening Our Skills, Supporting Your Healing 💪

At Tensegrity Physical Therapy, we're always striving to elevate our clinical expertise, and our latest in-service workshop with Jon Runyeon was no exception! 🧠💡

Jon, with his rich background in human anatomy, Olympic weightlifting, and wilderness medicine, guided us through advanced overhead pressing exercises and progressions tailored to treat neck and shoulder issues. These exercises are key for improving mobility, strengthening supporting muscles, and addressing common movement dysfunctions.

This hands-on session is part of our commitment to continually refine our clinical skills, ensuring that every treatment we provide helps you get back to what you love with greater strength, mobility, and confidence. Whether it's recovering from an injury or improving your overall performance, we're here to guide you every step of the way. 🏃‍♂️💪

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to learn and grow in our practice, bringing you the best in physical therapy. 🌱

06/27/2025

The Silent River Beneath Your Skin: Why Your Lymphatic System Matters
by Chad McCarty, LMT

At Tensegrity Physical Therapy, we see the body as an interconnected web of structure, movement, and balance. But one vital system often goes unnoticed—one that impacts nearly every dimension of your health: your lymphatic system.

🌀 What Is the Lymphatic System?
Think of it as a silent river under your skin—carrying clear, life‑supporting lymph fluid that:

Flushes away toxins, metabolic waste, and old immune cells

Regulates inflammation and swelling

Bolsters your immune defenses

Maintains fluid balance across tissues

Unlike your circulatory system, the lymphatic system has no pump—it relies on movement, deep breaths, and gentle pressure to keep things flowing. Blockages from surgery, stress, or injury can lead to stagnation, swelling, pain, and fatigue.

💆 Why Manual Lymphatic Therapy (MLT) Matters
Guided by the pioneering work of Dr. Bruno Chikly in Silent Waves, MLT uses gentle, rhythmic strokes to encourage flow, clear congestion, and open pathways—helping your body detoxify, regulate, and regenerate from within.

This isn’t traditional deep‑tissue massage. It’s precise. Subtle. In harmony with your body’s natural rhythms—and it’s profoundly supportive of deep healing.

Who Can Benefit?
While widely used in lymphedema and cancer recovery, MLT is also incredibly beneficial for:

Post‑surgical healing (cosmetic or joint replacements)

Chronic pain (e.g. fibromyalgia, arthritis)

Injury and trauma recovery

Postpartum restoration

Hormonal and immune regulation

Reducing swelling, puffiness, and sluggish sensations

Boosting overall wellness and detox

It pairs beautifully with physical therapy, craniosacral therapy, and myofascial release—lifting tissue hydration, mobility, and reducing systemic inflammation.

Lymph & Tensegrity
In the tensegrity model, your body is a dynamic interplay of tension and compression—your lymphatic system is the fluid web that keeps everything responsive, lubricated, and fully alive.

“The more we work with and understand body fluids, …this fluid…is an embodiment of the very essence of life.”
—Dr. Chikly, Silent Waves

Ready to Tune into the Silent River?
Whether you’re recovering, feeling stuck, swollen, or just seeking deeper vitality—you don’t have to force change. You can follow the flow.

Let’s help your body do what it already knows how to do—heal.

04/16/2024

We're currently looking to add a full time physical therapist to our team. We serve an active and highly motivated population and offer competitive salary and benefits. For more information email us at front.office@tensegritypt.com

01/18/2024

Update: phones and internet are back. Please call to make or change appointments.

Currently our phones and office internet are down. If you need to contact us please email us at front.office@tensegritypt.com. We will be open regular hours on Thursday and Friday January 18 and 19. If you have an appointment and can safely make it in we will be happy to see you!

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