Rolfing Vermont

06/08/2022

Listening, validation, treatment, and providing the options for repatterning-- this is health care, this is cognitive movement coaching.

05/25/2022

05/24/2022

After about a year of being closed out of this page (due to my previous account being hacked), I am back. What's your story been over the past year?

In fact, I am back with a brand new website:

www.cognitivemovementcoach.com

Let me know what you think!

03/27/2021

Anybody else feeling overwhelmed, fraught, short fused, seeing the same in your kids?
Bodywork can help ease some of this stress.

Never before have Americans been so physically and emotionally tired at the same time. Together this creates an endless loop of fatigue. Here's what you can do about it.

02/26/2021

Back to basics: 10 facts every person should know about back pain
Peter B O'Sullivan
JP Caneiro
Kieran O'Sullivan
Ivan Lin
Samantha Bunzli
Kevin Wernl
Mary O'Keeffe

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101611

Back pain, all pain really, is a multifactorial event. it is usually never just one thing. learning how to move, function, live well during flare ups, etc. is paramount to resilience, good living, and well-being.

12/12/2020

On suffering versus health and well-being.
On being a patient versus patient-centered.
This is the main reason why i don't refer to the humans and 4-legged non-humans as patients.

Putting a label on someone: patient, woman, prisoner, disabled person, etc., you reduce someone to that label and ignore the stratification of that individual.

11/23/2020

Listening, validation are key to any therapeutic relationship, and to one's healing, transformation.

https://www.thesports.physio/i-believe-you/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Over the last 4 weeks, myself and Ben Cormack have been interviewing patients on the ‘Better Clinician Project’ to gain their insights and experiences of both healthcare and the clinici…

11/08/2020

This is a great article about pain (chronic, acute, simple, complex) simply explaining the latest research and evidence.
it's not about wear and tear as we age, it's physiology, it's hormones, it's emotions, and it's tissue as well.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/123235373/the-pain-question-why-does-it-hurt-to-get-older-why-does-it-hurt-at-all?cid=app-android&fbclid=IwAR2Oyky4rip_HmaOj7ICcZ8EnOa9gtx4qLisP-JPBMz4oIFYtpiZxNdh0lc

Chronic pain is more commonplace than you might think. But explaining why is also more complex.

10/24/2020

Insuring good communication and understanding is the hallmark of any therapeutic practice.

When you ask someone, ‘do you understand me?’ the answer is likely yes or no. If they say yes, how do you know they haven’t misunderstood you? When you’re speaking your native language to ano…

09/15/2020

from injury, , or just wanting to improve some performance takes time.
Our journey together will take several turns, but with a trajectory matching your goals--building , nurturing .
I'm pleased to announce the return of to Addison County. Our new studio is in Bristol, I'll be there on Wednesdays.
1st 10 likes can receive a session for free, 2d 10 likes can receive a session for 1/2 off (clearly, you must be a Vermont resident 😊)

07/17/2020

Yet another reason to keep our critter brain in balance - - adaptability, cognitive flexibility, reducing fears and biases.

"When these neurons are weakened, people may have trouble adjusting to changes in their environment including difficulty in overcoming traditions, biases and fears."

"These cells could be part of the switch that determines your best attentional strategy," said Thilo Womelsdorf, associate professor of psychology and computer science, and the paper's principal investigator. "Weakening these brain cells could make it difficult to switch attention strategies, which can ultimately result in obsessive-compulsive behaviors or a struggle to adjust to new situations. On the opposite end, if such a switch is 'loose' attention might become 'loose' and people will experience a continuously uncertain world and be unable to concentrate on important information for any amount of time."

" brain cell activity was heightened amid change and diminished when confidence in the outcome grew. "These neurons seem to help the brain circuits to reconfigure and transition from formerly relevant information, and a tenuous connection to attend to new, relevant information," said Kianoush Banaie Boroujeni.

Link to study : Kianoush Banaie Boroujeni et al. Fast spiking interneuron activity in primate striatum tracks learning of attention cues, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001348117

There are 86 billion neurons, or cells, in the human brain. Of these, an infinitely small portion of them handle cognitive flexibility—our ability to adjust to new environments and concepts.