Category: Myofascial Release

  • 4ย Stages of Care at Wholistic Therapeutics


    This BLOG covers our 4 stages of care provided at Wholistic Therapeutics and Online Learning Introduction for 2021

    My goal and passion is to continue educate, motivate and inspire you about your own body, its healing and optimal potential so you can take care of yourself and step up to the next level and achieve your goals and desires.

    Are you ready to BREAK FREE FROM PAIN and regain the function, mobility, strength and a joy of living in your own body?

    Are you ready to regain your mobility and strength to do the things that you would love to do?

    Would you like to know what your body is able to do or how good can you really feel inside your body?

    Most people who come to our clinic have some sort of the pain that has already lasted for a very long time.

    As you probably know, pain is usually the last resort that your body can use to inform you that something is going on in your system, that we have not being paying attention to, ignoring, numbing or medicating.

    In our clinic we are proud of evaluating, recognizing and communicating to you where you are on your healing journey and guiding you towards your next step.

    In the upcoming year, I will be producing and sharing online learning materials so your healing process can be customized to your comfort level and your learning style.

    I will be your guide to determine where you start and how you progress through your healing process. Your willingness to regain your body’s mobility and flexibility, improve your motor patterning and reprogram it to a higher level of resilience will be up to you.

    I will encourage you and nudge you on your path so you can enjoy your life in a well-functioning body.

    Below are the 4 Phases of Care. Those phases at some point start to intertwine and flow and do not have a rigid boundary, but for the purpose of learning, they are defined as 4 separate ones. I will be guiding you how long to stay at each stage and when is the time to move on and progress to a new phase or to the next step in the same phase.

    Stage 1 PAIN RELIEF PHASE

    This stage of care will focus on relieving pain and discomfort. This is the most hands-on approach to treatment where we will identify and help you to release restrictions and long-term tension in your body that led to chronic muscular stress, inflammation and pain. This is usually the phase where we may work with old trauma, injury, surgery, scar tissue, that old car accident, or physical or emotional challenges.

    In Phase 1 What you will learn: MIND- BODY CONNECTION

    How breathing connects our brain and the body
    The role of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system and its effect on our physical body
    How to downregulate the sympathetic nervous system to promote healing
    Self Myofascial Release with tools
    Activate, practice and build your awareness
    Thoughts, emotions and epigenetics โ€“ MINDSET TOOLS AND JOURNALING
    Abdominal self-treatment for back and neck pain
    Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
    Myofascial Stretches
    Physical, Fascial and energetic interconnectedness of the body and mind
    Verbal and written cuing guiding you alone your journey (including audio and video)

    Many people when they start feeling better and have much improved pain levels, they stop even self-therapy. That only predisposes us to future injuries as the system did not learn to maintain, in a motor way, how to function in a more optimized and balanced way. Learning, understanding, and supporting the Mind-Body connection is equally important.

    Stage 2 RE-GAINING and IMPROVING MOBILITY and FLEXIBILITY PHASE

    This is an important part as we are learning how to have mobile healthy joints while improving flexibility of the surrounding areas with muscles, fascia and nervous system.

    How effective breathing relaxes the body, improves tissue mobility, creates fascial elasticity and overall fluidity.

    Mobility and flexibility are a sign of the body’s resilience. A must for prevention of future injuries. It improves longevity of joints function, energy flow, vascular flow. Flexibility is a sign of vitality and youthfulness of own body.

    Stage 3 PROPER MUSCULAR ACTIVATION and CORE STABILTY PHASE

    In this stage of your care you will learn how to properly activate your stabilization muscles of your core, trunk and extremities.

    The goal is to teach the body the fundamentals of proper core activation and coordination with breath to avoid compensation pattern and teach it correct motor programing.

    Building a proper foundation is a key for optimizing bodyโ€™s function and movement.
    I will guide you how to modify your position and how to progress you alone the way with verbal and written cues. Motor re-programing, training core endurance and coordination will be a part of this phase.

    This is the place where good muscular control and mobility and flexibility level CAN give you that great and youthful looking posture.

    STAGE 4 WE ADD ACTIVIES TO IMPROVE YOUR BODYโ€™S OVERALL ENDURANCE and AEROBICS CAPACITY PHASE

    In this stage of your care, we would design strength and conditioning program to help your body heal on a higher level and improve blood supply for long-term healing.

    It will help to create healthier, more resilient and happier body. This will enable you to perform your life and recreational activities on a higher level, slow down the aging process and help protect you from injuries and falls.

  • BEFORE AND AFTER MFR


    To those of you who have received myofascial release (MFR) you know that each session starts with postural, standing assessment of your body. Many symptoms are the result of constricted fascial systems best visible in standing position as mostly we function where gravity plays a big role.

    This lovely client of mine in our pictures came initially to me due to having pain, feeling exhausted most of the time but mainly feeling emotionally down and depressed with her body alignment. After a fall and hip transplant a few years ago, her body slowly started to bend forward and twist following strong fascial restrictions that were developing in her system.

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  • BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF GRATITUDE!


    November seems to be the perfect month to start cultivating the habit of being grateful. It is not only a more satisfying way of thinking and feeling, but now scientifically proven to be beneficial for our brain and overall health level.

    6 Physical Health Benefits of Gratitude:

    1. Better sleep
    2. Reduced anxiety and depression
    3. Better mood and less fatigue
    4. Improved immune system
    5. Improved brain function โ€“ dopamine released in the brain which is a pleasure and well being hormone.
    6. Less body pains and aches
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  • Body Scanning


    The main tool that we use when we are initially treating chronic pain and symptoms is learning to connect and feel the body as it is in the present moment. Most of the time chronic pain is so loud and overwhelming that all we want to do is get rid of it and not feel pain any more. That is totally understandable. We go to a doctor who gives us a diagnosis, which in most cases is just a description of symptoms, but not the cause of pain.

    In order to do it effectively, to get to the root cause of the pain, we need to learn and develop the skill of body scanning. Learning how to feel and become aware of the underlying causes of pain are the important keys to effectively treat it.

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  • 7 STEPS TO UNCONDITIONAL SELF-LOVE FOR A BETTER AND HEALTHIER QUALITY OF LIFE


    Many of us grew up in a culture and families where a healthy relationship with one-self was not cultivated and many times diminished, not even taken into consideration or even ridiculed. We all have a tendency to think that we have relationships with others. In reality, the most important relationship we will ever have in our life is the relationship with ourselves. Everything in our life, from health, success, and self-esteem, to how other people treat and trust us, starts with what kind of relationship we have with ourselves.

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  • POST-COVID AND MYOFASCIAL RELEASE


    The last two years of the Covid pandemic have brought additional challenges to our well-being, our minds and the health of our bodies. Within the last year, I have been working with several people who have had post-Covid lingering syndrome and I am pleased to inform you that we have made significant progress in reducing their chronic symptoms, and more rapidly regaining smell and taste.

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  • You Are Not Your Diagnosis


    I am super excited to announce that I became a Certified Energy Codes Coach, which is a potent Program that hugely enhances and magnifies the healing potential in all of us. I introduced some of the Energy Codes practices and principles to a long term client 3 months ago.

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  • YOUR WHOLISTIC THERAPEUTICS BENEFITS


    At Wholistic Therapeutics we care about teaching a more integrated and complete way of living on all levels; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. When our system of mind/body/breath is integrated we experience a greater level of Health and Wellbeing.

    We help people who suffer from chronic pain and are open to exploring options to heal their chronic pain and enhance their quality of life, providing hands-on local services in the Chicago area, remote digital therapy sessions globally, and self-healing and self-care educational materials.

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  • WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH MYOFASCIAL RELEASE AND ENERGY WORK


    Today I wanted to share with you the experience of one of our happy clients and how our services and teaching tools affected his body and his life. “Izabela is a master healer. I have been working on healing a long-time chronic knee injury with osteoarthritis for the last 30-plus years.

    Today I wanted to share with you the experience of one of our happy clients and how our services and teaching tools affected his body and his life.

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  • What is Fascia And What does it do?


    Fascia is an amazing system that helps us in many waysโ€ฆ

    1. FASCIA SUPPORTS
    2. FASCIA PROTECTS
    3. FASCIA FACILITATES CELLULAR PROCESSES
    4. FASCIA IS A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    5. FASCIA SUPPORTS
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