THERAPIES & PROGRAMS

Together we will determine the treatment that is appropriate for your needs and goals.

Acupuncture

…is one of the world’s oldest thriving healing professions. It is used to treat illness, recovery from injury, and prevent disease. The Western focus bio-mechanics of the human body are served well through the additional assessment and treatment protocol that acupuncture provides. The treatment in the quality of interaction between the body, mind and emotions is an example. Specific concentration of points along channels of life sustaining energy in our anatomy correspond to systems and regions of the body. They may be activated through gentle, medically sterilized ultra thin needles, heat, laser, digits, or other means. These points are in relationship to a flow of a finer metabolic energy the Chinese call Qi – ‘chee’ concentrated along channels networking throughout the body. The acupuncture meridians [think lighter expression of metabolic energy channeling throughout the body], like the mind are invisible to our present development of technology and just as real. Mapped throughout the body over millenniums of time such points and channels serves to regulate the healing powers of homeostasis and balance the flow of our finer metabolic energy that underlines our physiological process. The results are a positive effect on our health and the reduction of pain.
More prevalent in other nations than in the U.S., Chinese acupuncture is a major provider of health care in the world community recognized by the World Health Organization. It is an excellent compliment to western medicine. Adverse effects are substantially lower than common pharmaceutical and technological medicines used for the same conditions. Unlike some drug oriented medicine it does not foster a dependency.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. -Hippocrates

Ortho9 Massage

Is the reference name to an orthopedic base multi-discipline massage model, researched, synthesized and developed by Charles Cooper courtesy of great masters and a myriad of professional trainings. Its’ therapeutic repetoire consist of process and spacious oriented polarity therapy with body/mind skills and the soft tissue techniques of Cross Fiber, Neuromuscular, Myofascia, Deep Tissue, Total Body Modification, Touch for Health, Shiatsu, Cupping, and Positional Release. The assessment protocol, vital in determining the correct body therapy prescription draws its strength from a complimentary Eastern/Western perspective in health services. Relaxing spastic tissue and re-patterning of injured tissue through a precise orthopedic skill base massage can be an effective approach to accelerating the healing process. It can help free up irritated nerve roots effected by soft tissue restriction and thereby curtailing the intensity and spread of pain.

Polarity Therapy

This is a uniquely sophisticated body therapy model developed by Dr. Randolph Stone. It is a stand alone therapy for body mind stress reduction, as an adjunct to medical care, and central to Ortho9’s repertoire. Polarity Therapy is expressed through the Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine. It has a yogic relationship with an emphasize on body therapy, food, exercise, breathing and mind skills.
Polarity Therapy offers a unique strategy in the treatment of pain through polarity contacts in the dense levels of the body up through a bio-energy field recognized by the National Institutes of Health. It seeks to help regulate the cranial rhythm, release muscle tension, realign structure, calm over stimulated neurology through a parasympathetic relaxation response and support a constitutional balance of health.

Health is movement. Disease is fixation. -Dr. Randolph Stone

Mind-Body Skills

This is an outcome of decades of study and practice in a variety of mental disciplines purposed on listening to the body for valuable information to heal and relax. The intention to quiet the mind and create a inner space to focus on healing and relax. Using mental focusing techniques made easy by the Relaxation Response courtesy of Polarity Balancing and gentle Pranayama Breathing Skills the ability to relax the mind and comfort the body becomes a self applied skill. The on-going concerns and activities of the mind are put on pause to allow a positive widening of perspective and renewal of energy. Such mental stimuli as affirmations, self hypnosis techniques and healing meditation go to a deeper sense of realizing a transformational belief in conscious experience. What evolves is an individual stress management tool that allows old stories of the mind with its associated tension to fall away thereby creating thought space for new choices to emerge with its own corresponding biology.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.
 In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom -Victor Frankl