Body Mechanics Massage Therapy Clinic

02/01/2023

Best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year!!!

19/02/2022

Blom et al. reviewed the science on ten common orthopaedic surgeries, “carpentry” surgeries for common musculoskeletal problems like back pain and knee arthritis. Two of the ten surgeries they…

19/02/2022

This study assesses the potential of workplace-based micro-exercise (brief and simple exercise bouts) to prevent long-term sickness absence (LTSA) at the population level. In the Work Environment and Health in Denmark Study (2012–2018), we followed 70,130 workers from the general working populatio...

03/01/2022

I'll be closing the office temporarily for the safety and well-being of my clients, myself, and my building-mates. Covid positivity is over 21% in Jefferson County, over 14% statewide, and we probably haven't peaked yet.
Hopefully this will fall as quickly as it rose, and I can get back to working with my wonderful clients. Until then, be safe and be well!

05/12/2021

"To recap the basics, diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug in the same class as ibuprofen and acetylsalicylic acid. When used topically, it is considered safer because it limits dosage, putting the drug only where you need it.

And it is indeed safe, and it is indeed actually efficacious for its most obvious target: osteoarthritis. And likely for several other common musculoskeletal complaints (athough that is much further from “proven,” it’s a pretty safe bet)."

Many times over the years I have written about scientific papers that were the “nail in the coffin” for some…

30/10/2021

"We participate in materialism, because the idea that diseases and therapies are purely spiritual doesn't sufficiently account for what our clients experience in reality. (Here's the beauty part: we don't have to commit to ontological naturalism--the idea that nothing exists except material physical natural reality--unless we just want to do so. To faithfully stand by our clients as they experience reality, it is sufficient for us to be methodological naturalists: to operate with our clients in the material physical natural world that they are experiencing, no matter where any of us ultimately derive our philosophical meaning for ourselves on our own time.)
We participate in systems thinking, because we can leverage the knowledge from that interconnectedness into knowledge, reasoning, and critical thinking to support clinical decision-making for the benefit of our clients.
We participate in realism, because we can't adequately stand by and be supportive of our clients if we believe and tell them that their conditions are imaginary, are merely social flaws, or are actually their fault for not thinking positively enough.
We participate in science, because neither nihilism ("we can't know anything so it doesn't matter what we say to clients") or dogmatism ("I don't care what the evidence says; I know what I believe") about the material physical natural world serves our clients' best interests. Accessing the coherent body of knowledge of the sciences, and truly integrating that into our knowledge and practice of massage, permits us to participate in the shared body of knowledge that the rest of the professional healthcare team has access to, and increases our credibility and professional respect by making us better able to care for our clients.
We participate in humanism, because we recognize that professional healthcare is not limited to trying to get the maximum amount of profit possible out of clients, that healthcare professionals have responsibilities in addition to the rights that society recognizes, and that on a pragmatic level, public health care is necessary for us to have the kind of society and economy in which people thrive."

-Mario Bunge, on the application of philosophy to 21st-century modern client-centered professional healthcare:

10/08/2021

Massage/Star Trek nerd crossover humor!

Ps. Kind of like the guy who drew it, really.

28/06/2021

Openings this week (for vaccinated clients): Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday. Contact me to schedule!

07/06/2021

I find it kind of tender and lovely when my clients text "I'm here" to me when they arrive.

06/06/2021

I love that the roots of the words "heal" and "whole" are the same . . . healing is not something that is done to us, it's something that happens with us. We heal, and are made whole.