About Matt Hsu and Upright Health

Upright Health is dedicated to the elimination of pain and the correction of posture through sensible and noninvasive means.  We endeavor to help you get back to a place where you can enjoy your life and live it without fear of pain and other limitations.

Matt Hsu (pronounced “shoe”) specializes in work with business professionals who need to give 100% to their work and play without having to worry about the pain, fatigue, frustration, and depression that come from deteriorating posture.

His own battle with chronic pain from the age of 16 in his feet, knees, hips, back, shoulders, elbows, forearms, wrists, hands, and head gives him a uniquely thorough understanding of musculoskeletal pain, the ways in which it can undermine an entire life, and the mental and physical hurdles that keep people from getting out of it.

Drawing upon his dedicated studies of manual and movement therapies as well as over 10 years of experience fending off chronic pain all over his own body, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to every session to help his clients understand and master their pain so that they can get back to living their lives.  He has experience working with people from all walks of life including lawyers, doctors, dancers, dog walkers, yogis and yoginis, art teachers, students, mothers, fathers, and desk jockeys of all stripes.

Matt was trained in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration by the Rolf Institute in Boulder, CO and is a Egoscue University certified Posture Alignment Specialist and Recommended Egoscue® Affiliate.  By blending the manual therapy techniques of the Rolf Institute and the exercise therapy protocols of  Egoscue, Matt gets his clients back to a pain-free lifestyle as quickly as possible with the tools they need to stay pain-free.

Matt is a co-teacher of Seeing Made Easy, a course designed to help make Rolfers and other structural integrators more effective in their postural assessments and in their approaches to postural problems.  He also takes part in weekly  conference calls with Egoscue affiliate and Rolf Method practitioner Isaac Osborne (Santa Barbara, CA) and personal trainer and Egoscue affiliate Ann-Margaret Giovino (Ann Arbor, MI) to ensure constant connection with new developments and new ideas in dealing with posture and pain.

Matt is a founding member of RolfHub.com (your online source for information on Rolfing) and is an actively serving part of the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation’s Communication Committee and the Rolf Institute Membership Committee.  He is certified by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, is a California Massage Therapy Council Certified Massage Therapist, and holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is also a co-founder of the Independently Healthy Association, a growing team of San Diego health practitioners dedicated to giving their clients the power they need to be healthy.

When not at the office, Matt can be found at one of San Diego’s local ice rinks being hit in the head by pucks or coaching young goalies to get hit in the head by pucks more often.  He is the goalie coach for the La Jolla Jaguars Squirt A travel ice hockey team and coaches at the Friday evening Hockey Academy at Ice Town UTC.  He also guest lectures for fitness classes at San Diego State University.