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10/25/2025

To help a loved one with cancer, think about what you're good at — and what they need. Are you organized? Plan their meals. Detail-oriented? Go with them to appointments. Survivors share ideas.

10/21/2025

SPOKANE, Wash. – Inland Imaging has announced the construction of a new facility in Spokane, set to revolutionize breast cancer screening, testing and diagnosis in Eastern Washington, the center said

10/19/2025

Yep. Tongue, jaw and pelvis. It's all connected whether human or horse.

Try this at home:

Lie on your back on your bed with a pillow under your head and your legs straight. Relax.

Now, keeping your head centered, move your tongue or your lower jaw to the left (try each separately). If you listen carefully to your body, you’ll feel your core muscles engage slightly to balance that movement.

Recenter—and notice how your core adjusts and recenters too.

Now move your tongue or jaw to the right and feel your core engage again. Recenter, and feel it rebalance once more.

Try these movements separately and together.

I also recommend trying each of these while you walk.

Then, press your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth or move your jaw forward or outward. Feel how your core engages differently each time to stabilize your body.

What you’re feeling is the neurological and myofascial connection between your tongue, jaw, and pelvis.

Your horse has these same connections.

If a horse holds his tongue or tilts his jaw to one side for long enough, his nervous system begins to recognize that asymmetry as normal. Over time, his body adapts around it—creating compensations that affect his posture, movement, and even behavior.

It often takes a combination of massage and targeted whole-body movement therapy to help reset those patterns and guide the body back toward a more centered, balanced state.

10/17/2025

This will be me if I ever start dating again.

10/14/2025

One of my longest-term clients brings me fresh Chinese lanterns every fall. So much joy. 🎃
And she included a homemade pumpkin muffin! 🧡

10/13/2025

Heidi Toplansky was diagnosed with two different cancers — one in each breast — in 2012.

She jumped at the chance to get intraoperative radiation therapy, a therapy that delivers a single, targeted radiation dose to a patient’s breast tissue immediately after surgery to remove a tumor, in one breast. She received traditional radiation to treat the tumor in the other one because it was not a candidate for alternate therapy.

Known as IORT, it costs patients less in both time and money than traditional radiation treatments, and it is far less grueling. It has been widely available overseas — in Europe, South America and Asia — for more than two decades.

Even though her surgeon ended up detecting cancer cells near where her tumor had been, forcing her to undergo repeated bouts of whole breast radiation after the IORT, Toplansky is a huge proponent of the treatment.

But the treatment is not as widely available in the United States as it once was, according to interviews with a dozen breast surgeons. They contend that is because it cuts into the revenue of doctors and hospitals that rely on the far larger sums of money generated by traditional radiation treatments.

Radiation oncologists who perform IORT receive about $525 per treatment, Medicare estimates from 2022 show, far less than the $1,300 they receive performing whole breast radiation with five sessions and the $1,730 generated by 15 sessions. Hospitals also benefit from repeated radiation sessions, which generate facility fees every time a patient returns for care.

Read more: nbcnews.app.link/hdwnnDREkXb

10/10/2025

Today, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day. Spokane Public Radio wants to remind you to be kind to yourself, and to know that if you or a loved one are in crisis, you are not alone.

There are a number of resources available for residents of the Inland Northwest, including crisis and care hotlines and community support groups.

Later this morning, Hands Across Spokane () is hosting a resource fair featuring dozens of local providers offering information and support in mental health, recovery, housing, employment, and family services. For more information, visit handsacrossspokane.org.

Together, we can ensure that everyone in our community gets connected to the resources they need.

10/09/2025

It's all about the nervous system ✨️

🧠💆 Massage is powerful – but not because it squeezes toxins out of muscles. Science shows its biggest influence is on the nervous system. By stimulating receptors in the skin, massage helps calm stress responses, supports balance and enhances wellbeing.

This is far more meaningful than the old ‘toxin’ story. Our clients trust us when we speak with accuracy and confidence.

Learn more in the full blog 👉 https://smto.co.uk/why-flushing-out-toxins-is-a-myth-a-critical-look-at-massage/


GCMT The General Council for Manual Therapies

10/07/2025

Shout out to one of my beloved clients, and cancer survivors, who directed the for the 2025 PNW Pink Ribbon Run/Walk this weekend at Manito Park . You are an inspiration!