Rehabilitation Manual Therapy
Rehabilitation Manual Therapy
Orthopedic, Sports, Neuromuscular, Manual Therapy - all of these are medically focused hands-on therapies that amount to the same intention: the patient has a soft tissue (muscle/tendon/ligament/connective tissue) injury, and it is my intention to assist in healing it. Manual therapy is an advanced, focused soft tissue manual manipulation of tight, adhesions in the musculoskeletal tissues.
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 deep into impossibly tight, hard muscle for longer than 15 minutes. My hands can no longer make hard muscle soft again without injury to my fingers. If a patient is not open to 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 shoulder and legs.
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, manual acupuncture with Japanese needles, electro-acupuncture with Chinese needles, air cupping with infra-red heat, my table is equipped with far-infrared light: Biomat I can add therapeutic ultrasound, and Vietnamese guas'ha if needed, a rubbing technique to release stagnation in the muscles.
Rates vary depending on the method of payment.
I prefer cash or Zelle:
Cash $170 - discounted rate for the hour
Zelle $185 - no transaction fee for the hour
Your option:
Venmo $189 one hour (Venmo has a transaction fee of 0.021% plus ten cents)
SQUARE Point Of Sale: all credit cards or Health Savings Account card $191 - includes transaction fee 0.035%
45 minutes manual therapy $139 Zelle - Not applicable to first time patients
Below, the cash discounted rates do not apply to insurance patients:
$128 /45 minutes
$170 /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.