Rehabilitation Manual Therapy
Rehabilitation Manual Therapy
Orthopedic Manual Therapy is a medically focused hands-on therapy. The patient has a soft tissue injury and my gifted hands from birth begin communicating with the tissue and heal it. Manual therapy is an advanced, focused soft tissue manual manipulation of tight adhesions in the musculoskeletal tissues causing pain and limited range of motion.
Regarding "hard tissue" pain by working out to build muscle or exhaustive computer hours with a forward placed head: the patient is instructed to do therapeutic stretches for a tight neck, upper trapezius and mid-scapular upper back muscles. After 35+ years, I can no longer dig deeply into impossibly tight, hard muscle for longer than 15 minutes. My hands can no longer make impossibly hard muscle soft again without injury to my fingers. I call this condition rhinoceros upper back and shoulders. If a patient is not open to correcting their posture, guasha, therapeutic stretching, cupping and acupuncture, they are limiting their options for resolution in these areas.
For those patients who refuse 15 minutes of acupuncture, trigger point acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, guasha, or air cupping, I offer:
15 minutes of manual therapy to the neck, upper trapezius and upper back,
15 minutes of manual therapy to the legs and gluteal muscles,
15 minutes of manual therapy to the lower back, mid- back and arms,
15 minutes of therapeutic stretches to the neck and shoulders with moist heat.
My acupuncture style is Japanese, It should not hurt. It is not Chinese, which usually hurts in order to "wake up the body." A session with me includes soft tissue manipulation, American trigger point acupuncture usually in the upper trapezius, piriformis and gluteus medius muscles of the buttocks, manual acupuncture with Japanese needles, electro-acupuncture with Chinese needles, air cupping with infra-red heat lamp, my table is equipped with a far-infrared light Biomat. I can add therapeutic ultrasound, and Vietnamese guas'ha if needed, (a rubbing technique to release stagnation in the muscles).
One Hour:
Rates vary depending on the method of payment.
I prefer cash and Zelle:
Cash $180 - $12 discounted rate for the hour
Zelle $192 - Zelle does not charge a transaction fee
Your options with additional transaction fee:
Venmo $196 one hour - (Includes transaction fee of 0.021% plus ten cents)
Credit cards $197.27 - (transaction fee 0.035)
Health Savings Account card $199.12 - (transaction fee 0.0355)
Below rates are not applicable to first time Corporate Group Insurance patients (because I bill a 75 minute session):
45 minutes manual therapy $144 Zelle
45 minutes $147.09 Venmo (0.021 + 10 cents mandatory transaction fee), $144.00 credit with 0.035 transaction fee,
The cash discounted rates apply to clients not covered by insurance:
$135 /45 minutes
$180 /60 minutes
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION - please notify me 48 hours before your appointed session or there is a 50% fee of the time you reserved.
Deep tissue rehabilitation manual therapy, sports therapy, myofascial therapy
As an acupuncturist, I use rehabilitation manual therapy as a supplemental technique to acupuncture (rather than Tui Na), trigger point acupuncture and electro-acupuncture. Rehabilitation manual therapy as a stand alone technique treats muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, pain, inflammation, soreness, tight muscles - for marathon runners, athletes, dance injuries, sports injuries and computer pain syndrome: neck pain, and upper to lower back pain and anterior hip flexor (psoas) tightness and pain from sitting long hours, gluteal pain, (knee) patellar tendonitis pain and ITB tightness, and ankle sprains level 1-2.
Also, treated as stated above, are ilio-tibial band/patellar tracking pain (knee pain), calf pain, achilles tendonitis, ankle sprain level 1 and 2, "frozen shoulder" adhesive capsulitis, referred pain into your shoulder, rotator cuff injuries, "golfer's" elbow forearm extensor and "tennis" elbow forearm flexor, migraines and headaches, TMJD - jaw (masseter muscle) tightness (with intraorbital manipulation), foot pain (neuroma) under the second and third toes, bone fracture pain, and plantar "fascitis or fibramatosis" pain of the heel. Note: plantar fasciosis is a disorder where the fascia is repeatedly stressed rather than inflamed. Other terms used to describe plantar fasciosis include calcaneal enthesopathy and calcaneal spur syndrome (heel spur).
Impinged nerve root in the neck I use acupuncture, electroacupuncture and therapeutic ultrasound.