Bend to Mend Physical Therapy

07/18/2025

I once had a fellow running buddy say to me "once your knees go, its all over." That struck a cord in me to really understand if that old adage was just a bunch of bullmurky. Turns out that it is true, that adage is bullmurky and the knees have a great propensity for healing, vibrant cartilage rotational excellence and ligament torque. This is just a small window into the gem of a our spiraling lower limb joint connection.

07/18/2025

Lets talk about getting back to earth. While not all of us might not have access to the green space in our neighborhoods, lets get down in our souls and access what we do have. Lets start with our toes. Embryology, acupuncture and reflexology all point us into the fact that our toes are deeply connected to our brains, breath, teeth, throat, ears and eyes. That indicates that our senses are deeply rooted in the root of our bodies. Next time you walk, run, skip, hop, dance, skateboard, balance or tiptoe, mabye try to feel and engage your pointers without clenching them.

07/18/2025

Changing focus. I am becoming a pulsating podcast anatomist. www.serpentinecaroline.com. Come get inspired to be your own unique human self and the beautiful piece of this earth your meant to be.

04/11/2025

As many of us are beginning to recognize the medical world as only a world of make believe for profit and our physical and mental issues continue to be chronic and deterioration, I propose a new paradigm based on anatomy books and the kaleidoscopic intellengence of ancient human public health; yoga, belly and Africian dance and the many beautifully grounding energetic martial arts practices. I will start with the African dance that I have been studying with Lara McIntosh, Wassa Dance, since she has been a lead and inspiration of somatic embody of healthy movement. In her last class, she made the bold mutinous statement to relax the tops of your feet to feel the engagement of the bottoms. I could feel the whole class in confusion as if they were just given permission to do something so against everything we have learned in life which is tighten and freeze to perform. Personally, I was electrified as I have been trying to get my patients to engage there 26 foot bones for years but never thought about the fact that you need to let go before you try something new. Thank you Lara from every foot and hamstring heart string since the bottom of the foot and the hamstrings do share the same nerve (sciatic nerve). To engage and not chronically atrophy and tighten is the future of our posterior legs and bottoms of feet. Tell Niki, your choosing to now run foot naked like instead of expensive high arched sneakers, understanding that the true arch is the arch between the toes and forefoot. Interesting that this relationship in reflexology is the brain and body connection. Feel your bottoms of your feet and your hamstrings engage. You will be amazed at your revitalized power of the back and bottom of our bodies. Enjoy

03/30/2025

03/30/2025

Why does science exist outside our bodies but only inorganic drugs work inside? Is it possible the earth including its human factories, have manufactured a human product that is able to heal with self understanding and expansive thinking? All of our health disciplines including acupuncture, yoga, africian dance, belly dance, capoeira, and Ti-chi practice self understanding and expansive thinking.

03/30/2025

Many people have adopted the philosophy that somehow the mind and body have something to do with each-other. This pheudo blind faith will now start to be infiltrated with mind-body intelligence. I will start with the Messentary which is an organ that we all have that roots from level L1-3. At this spinal level, the spinal cord ends, the diaphragm attaches and cauda equina (continuation of spinal cord) begins. Could it be that our messentaries along with the caudia equina, are just these beautiful expansive tributaries of the spinal cord? Yes.
Interesting to note that at the opposite end, the spinal cord continues into the completely unhinged doors of our brain stems, where many brain function and emotional nuclei live together.

03/29/2025

Why is it that when we have pain anywhere in our bodies, we make the long arduous journey to see a physician but not the short and sweet trip up the spinal cord to the brain to figure what we can do to listen, observe and work with the brilliance of our beings. Well we can always just start. Here we go.

03/01/2025

I am going to finally live in a house/studio of my dreams again" a Mic Tiny home for 2 and a dog near public transportation. Below pic is the mock up bathroom fix-up. I have been so blessed. I do and always have had the best realtor on the planet, Dustin Ziegelmann. To work with someone so personable and professional is his gift I get to learn from every house migration (there's been many). I understand that this is my commitment ceremony to give that joy I am experiencing to others. Barb; the founder of Sound Foundation which is a non profit volunteer organization, builds tiny homes in Seattle. They will be speaking about this organization's positive way forward to have stable small communities of tiny homes. Barb and I are collaborating on a project to include our homeless to participate in this home building experience. From this conception, the amount of success seems astounding in restoration of the sense of purpose, mental stability, sense of community. So please join us for this beautiful inclusive earth and human friendly path forward in person or by zoom.

"It will be a Hybrid Meeting, both on Zoom, and In-Person
This meeting will be on Mondays,
from 3:30pm-5:00pm.
It is a hybrid meeting, we meet both In-Person at the St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Ballard, Seattle,
and via Zoom Meeting:

We will be In-Person at :
St Paul United Church of Christ, Ballard, SeattleAddress: 6512 12th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107

and / or available Virtual via:

Zoom Meeting ID: 394 857 6280 / password: peace
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3948576280?pwd=Rk1Ec2d6bktHNi9OU2xsZUdINTgwUT09 "