Creative Bodyworks

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day. We are very grateful to have the opportunity to help people heal through safe, educated, nurturing, touch for lasting change. Our goal is to help you not only let go of the physical pain in areas of your body that you're holding, but also associated trauma that can very commonly be trapped in those tissues from a long-term chronic holding patterns. Please feel free to give us a call and we can explain how our advanced massage therapy called structural integration can help release not only pain but chronic holding patterns that may be holding you back.

01/18/2022

Our approach to sports massage therapy is to optimize your structural alignment for more ease of movement, strength, injury prevention and faster recovery from the strains of your athletic activities. Our treatment goal is to help bring your body into a state of balance that encourages self correction instead of being stuck in a distorted pattern that inhibits your optimal performance. Please feel free to give us a call so we can explain how we can help improve your sports performance or help you recover from a chronic Sports injury.

09/03/2021

We can help you recover more quickly from neck or back back pain even though you have a herniated disk.

Dr. Shims video does a great job explaining how herniated disc‘s can heal on their own in most instances. The structural work that we do at the office can greatly enhance your body‘s natural healing process to recover more quickly. We balance your structure to take the strain off of the disk so that it can heal much more quickly and also work on taking the strain pattern out of the area that’s causing the disks to be compressed in the first place leading to the herniation. This helps our clients find long-term relief from chronic pain related to herniated disks. We also help clients with fusion surgery that are still in pain because we address the strain pattern causing the initial injury that transferred to the disks above and below the fusion.

Please feel free to contact us so we can explain in more detail how we can help you with your neck or back pain.

https://youtu.be/84P-r5XX7hI

A herniated disc can heal itself. Dr. Shim explains how.For more information, please see our blog at: https://www.shimspine.com/disc-herniations-or-slip-disc...

04/20/2021

Here’s a simple stretch that helps me when I have a tight lower back. You might find it helpful too.

https://youtu.be/dzuZbwu3U18

The Thomas Test (also known as Iliacus Test or Iliopsoas Test) is used to measure the flexibility of the hip flexors, which includes the iliopsoas muscle gro...

12/17/2019

I use these techniques every day to open my chest and help with neck and shoulder tightness.

https://youtu.be/SYr6lbx68n8

In this video I'll show you how to fix rounded shoulder posture, and fix your posture so that your shoulders are more aligned. For instance, do you catch you...

12/03/2019


One of the great tools we have to help boost the brains natural filtration system is called the frontal  occipital decompression technique or “the big pump”.

I have many clients that request the pump to help with sinus pressure, sinusitis, headaches, recovery from anesthesia, and past concussions .

I think you’ll find the attached video very informative as to what happens to the brain from a concussion or other type of trauma.

I think it makes more sense after watching the video to see why the frontal occipital decompression would be helpful using the brain’s own systems to flush out inflammation and return more normal flow of cerebral spinal fluid around the brain to reduce the symptoms associated with those injuries. 

https://youtu.be/zLIjHdqB0yc

A riveting and inspiring talk by Adrienne Larkin about how cranial osteopathy is changing lives and getting the victims of concussion well.

09/17/2019

When I read this article it reminded me of all the clients that asked me what can They do in between sessions. You may find this article helpful. It’s just a few very simple stretches, so it would make it easier for you to actually do them consistently.

Loosen up.

09/03/2019

We treat foot pain! Commonly referred to as
Plantar fasciitis.

Plantar fasciitis, although it only effects one small area of the body, can control a big part of your life.

If you’re living with plantar fasciitis and traditional methods of treatment like shoe inserts, epsom salt soaks, or even injections and surgery still aren’t enough maybe it’s time to consider trying something that has helped many of our clients.

At Creative Bodyworks, we look at more than just the symptom of foot pain and we try to find the root issue whether it’s in the knees and lower leg or if the issue goes all the way up to the hips.

Often by treating the imbalances in the hips we see that the feet no longer have to compensate for what is happening above them and your weight is distributed more evenly when you stand and walk. Call us now and we can explain how we will customize the session to treat effectively your specific issues.

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06/08/2019

A lot of you’ve seen him in the window as you’re walking up to the building. His name is Ichabod.

What we like about Ichabod is it’s nice to be able to point out and explain on a full-size skeleton how the structural work can help with your condition.

01/31/2019

Have you exhausted all of your medical options and are still in pain? Maybe it’s time to think outside of the box.

The advanced massage therapy called Structural Energetic Therapy that we provide at Creative Bodyworks has and continues to improve and even eliminate chronic back pain for our clients. Now their quality-of-life is substantially better.

Many of our clients have already received physical therapy, pain clinic injections and opiates to block the pain, and have even had back surgery but are still in pain.

As this article states, it’s important to explore all of your alternatives when the standard treatments aren’t working for you.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324174.php

Please don’t hesitate to give us a call so we can explain how our approach May help with your specific issue.

01/02/2019

Looking for a more effective and longer lasting type of massage therapy to bring your body into balance and out of pain for 2019?

Structural Energetic Therapy is our most effective and longest lasting massage therapy for chronic pain, rehabilitation from injuries and surgeries and improved sports performance. Please don’t hesitate to call or email us with questions about your condition and how we can help.

12/10/2018

Why do my joints crunch or Pop with movement?
Many of our clients ask us this question.

This is a great article that explains what that may be and when you might want to reach out to be assessed by a physician.

https://www.self.com/story/joints-popping-crepitus