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Jaw clenching, tooth grinding and bruxism

Jaw issues are more than just issues that affect the health of your teeth. If you grind your teeth, clench your jaw, have trouble opening your mouth, get lock-jaw, or […]

Eye movement issues as a symptom

Eyes movements and body movements coordinate. Sometimes eye movement dysfunctions can create an issue in other parts of the body, other times an issue somewhere else in one’s body will […]

Waiting to exhale: breath holding as a diagnostic

Buteyko breathing Buteyko breathing has been all over my IG feed recently. I do an analysis of breathing biomechanics in my practice as an Integrative Movement Therapist and talked about […]

Eye have a migraine: eye movement rehab can create migraine relief

Migraines are associated with Eye pain Migraine headaches are associated with eye pain and light sensitivity. A sub-type of migraine is an ocular migraine, which presents with visual symptoms. Ocular […]

The primacy of vision

Vision rules In 1991 Felleman and Essan published a study called “Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex”. This article scientifically established the centrality of the visual system in […]

You’ve got skin in the game

The skin is a sensory organ All the tissues in your body emerge from three fundamental layers. Yup, going embryological on ya’ here. Your skin and your brain come from […]

Muscles are not decision-makers

Muscles are NOT decision-makers. They are a response team. Last week a client came in for an Initial Assessment. She’s a personal trainer and so she wasn’t surprised when during […]

Your scars could be causing your chronic pain

Scars contribute to chronic pain Scars have depth, texture, density, form and pull. To say what we see on the surface is the tip of the iceberg is a huge […]

What’s the initial assessment?

Foundations of Treatment The 90-minute initial assessment is the most important part of the process of working with me. Integrative Movement Therapy relies heavily on as complete a picture of […]