We are not chiropractors or physical therapists. We are not trained to snap, crack, or pop your back, nor are we interested in using ice packs, heat, or electro-stimulation to address the points where you feel pain. Quite simply, where you feel chronic pain is (almost always) NOT the source of the problem, so we work with you to address the dysfunctions all over your body that get you out of alignment and cause pain.

The body's parts all work together to balance and adjust for each other, and our approach holds that interdependence in the forefront. Pain in one part of your body does NOT necessarily mean that that specific part of your body is bad. It means a whole chain of dysfunctions is placing strain on that body part to a level that is no longer safe or tolerable.

If you had a car with one wheel misaligned and pointing off to the side, you'd be lowering your gas mileage and wearing down your tires unevenly as well as stressing the shocks. To fix that, you would not just replace the tire, get a bigger gas tank, and replace the shocks more often. You would fix the inefficient alignment and stop the other problems from ever developing in the first place.

Here's an example: your shoulder could be causing you knee pain. Incorrect shoulder position can shift your weight asymmetrically and alter the position of your pelvis. The shifted position of your pelvis creates asymmetrical function in your legs leading to the feeling that one leg is longer than the other.

As you go through your daily life, one knee takes impacts and twisting forces that it's not designed for. If you allow the situation to persist long enough, knee pain develops to tell you that something is wrong. Icing the knee, taking anti-inflammatories, trying to build quad or hamstring strength, injecting stem cells, and finally removing torn tissues from inside the joint may bring relief from the pain for a short while, but until you address the upper body's asymmetry and how it relates to the improper function of your legs, the knee will have to continue to complain as further damage is being done daily. Sound crazy? Ask this dentist about how he got rid of his foot pain.

While we can’t deny that you are getting older, a lot of that “falling apart” is just a matter of imbalances in your body that you can address. We work with clients everyday who see the results of a dedicated effort to rebalance their bodies, so we know that a dedicated, intelligent effort makes a huge difference for even the worst pain. We have personally dealt with chronic pain and fatigue, so we know that falling apart is not just a question of age: it’s a question of misalignment.

If you’re considering surgery to deal with your pain, I encourage you to look into the available research literature for the surgery you’re considering. The long-term effectiveness of most “pain-curing” surgeries tends to be rather discouraging and the loss in quality of life is immeasurable.

As for mind-altering painkillers, if you’re happy operating in a fog while continuing to do more damage to your body, by all means do so! If you’re at this website, you probably aren’t happy with that.

With Rolfing, we use advanced, hands-on, targeted manual therapy techniques to balance tensions across the joints of your entire body.

After any soft-tissue restrictions or adhesions that are blocking proper movement are taken care of (or if none are present that obviously block your progress), we use Egoscue Posture Alignment Therapy to show you how YOU can progressively make your body feel, look, and move better on your own at home.

It depends entirely on your situation. Sometimes people's pain resolves quite quickly. Other times it takes longer to get the body to realign itself to the point that the pain goes away. We've had clients come and have their issues resolved in one or two sessions. We've had others for whom it takes months to get where they want to be!