Pain Relief Center in Lima NY/Walt Fritz, PT

10/03/2025

וובינר אוקטובר בנושא - ״טיפול מנואלי בהפרעות קול ושיקום״ עם וולט פריץ!
אנו נרגשים לארח את וולט פריץ (Walt Fritz) פיזיותרפיסט מארצות הברית, להרצאה ייחודית שתתקיים ביום רביעי, 15.10, בשעה 20:30.
הזדמנות נפלאה ללמוד על גישות מודרניות לטיפול מנואלי והשפעותיו על הקול והשיקום הקולי.
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במהלך המפגש וולט יחשוף כיצד טיפול מנואלי (כגון עיסוי, מניפולציה של רקמות רכות, שחרור מיופציאלי ומניפולציה גרונית) יכול לעזור בהתמודדות עם דיספוניה על רקע מתח שרירי (MTD) ותופעות קול שונות, תוך שילוב תובנות עדכניות למורכבות הבעיות ודרכי הפתרון שלהן.
הגישה מבוססת על קבלת החלטות משותפת, הערכת ערכי המטופל ומשלבת תובנות מתקדמות בתחום הקול (Meta-therapy, Helou, 2017) ותפיסה טיפולית כצורת תקשורת מבוססת מגע (Geri et al., 2019), במטרה להעצים את המטופל ולהקל על מטפלים בתחילת דרכם להרגיש בטוחים ביישום הטיפול.
הוובינר יכלול סקירה של עקרונות מהמאמר שלו משנת 2024: "The mechanism of action for laryngeal manual therapies: the need for an update", הדגמות וידאו קצרות, וזמן לשאלות, דיון והחלפת דעות.
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08/30/2025

Being sold on a long-term "fix"? Run.

There are some truly s**tty practitioners out there. The ones who take an x-ray of your spine, point to something perfectly normal, and spin a story about how if you don’t start “treatment” immediately, you’ll be crippled, arthritic, or in constant pain in a few years. They’ll pull out their “plan” — 24 visits, 18 months, thousands of dollars — and tell you it’s the only way to “fix” the problem they’ve just convinced you that you have.

Here’s the truth: those findings they’re pointing at are almost always normal. Spines change with age. Discs dry out. Small bumps or variations appear. That doesn’t automatically mean pain, and none of it can be “corrected” by any manual therapy treatment. So if they’re trying to sell you the lie that their hands, machines, or adjustments will change how your spine looks on an x-ray, they’re talking absolute s**t.

This isn’t healthcare. It’s sales. They’re not helping you — they’re trapping you in a cycle of fear and dependence while draining your wallet. Good practitioners want to see you get better quickly and get back to living your life. They don’t need to lock you into an 18-month plan or pretend that harmless changes are “time bombs” they can magically “fix.”

If someone tries to do this to you, get up, walk out, and don’t look back. There are plenty of honest, skilled clinicians out there who will treat you with respect and reality, not lies and scare tactics.

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07/16/2025

07/14/2025

Elpida Koutsoubaki, (BA, PgDip) Voice therapist, Speech Pathologist, Psychologist, is the creator of the Integrated Voice Therapy approach to vocal rehabilit...

06/11/2025

05/30/2025

Where's the evidence for manual therapy for SLPs?

Krisciunas, G. P., Vakharia, A., Lazarus, C., Taborda, S. G., Martino, R., Hutcheson, K., ... & Langmore, S. E. (2019). Application of manual therapy for dysphagia in head and neck cancer patients: a preliminary national survey of treatment trends and adverse events. Global advances in health and medicine, 8, 2164956119844151.

05/16/2025

2-day course July 4th & 5th

04/22/2025

Purpose This study examined the effects of a 4-week home-based bodyweight eccentric exercise program, requiring just 5 min daily, on physical fitness, body composition, and both physical and mental health in sedentary individuals. Methods Twenty-two sedentary but healthy individuals (4 men, 18 women...

04/21/2025

Follow us on Instagram:- Walt Fritz: - PerfectingPT: : Walt Fritz is a physical therapist that specializes in speech and swallowing disorders, but more than that, he specializes in including the patient in the plan of care and leveraging their insights and beliefs to...

04/17/2025

Let’s be honest: the tissue-based model of manual therapy is not just inaccurate. It’s boring. It’s a dry story. A story about tight muscles, stuck fascia, knots, and misalignments. A story where the practitioner “fixes” the passive client, and where therapeutic success is measured in inch...

04/15/2025

eys to diagnose the spinal diseases. To determine the significance of MRI abnormalities, we must take into account the (1) frequency and (2) spectrum of structural abnormalities, which may be asymptomatic. However, no large-scale study has documented abnormal findings of the cervical spine on MR ima...

04/11/2025

We're excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Walt Fritz. We hope you'll enjoy our conversation with Walt below. Hi Walt,