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Craniosacral Therapy Remove
Craniosacral Therapy
The CranioSacral System, while not well understood by the public, plays a vital role in our ability or inability to function and maintain health. A Therapist's training and experience is most important in achieving desired treatment results.
Each therapy offered by Safran Rehab and Wellness Therapies has its own unique value in effectively treating a Chronic Condition. No one technique does it all. Therapies & techniques need to be employed in complementary and orderly ways. CranioSacral Therapy may be very much needed... but, perhaps only after the system has been prepared to receive its benefits.
A highly trained and experienced therapist is the key to getting the most value and benefit from treatment sessions. The CranioSacral System is complex, and has numerous therapeutic relationships with other parts of your body. Your Therapist needs to be able to feel and understand physical and energy restrictions... relationships between body parts... and be able to translate that information into more promising treatment strategies. Joel Safran is that kind of a Therapist.
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Myofascial Therapy Remove
Myofascial Therapy
Fascia is the most pervasive tissue in our body. It engulfs and wraps every part of us,
from muscles and organs to every individual tissue cell.
In MyoFascial Therapy, we are mostly working with the elastin connective tissue which is the more pervasive type. In its healthy state, it provides support for internal structures, organs and major body parts. It enables those parts to optimally move and function, whether we are talking about internal vessels, organs or the basic postural parts of your whole body.
When this connective tissue becomes "dehydrated", it is like a dried out "kitchen sponge". It shrinks, hardens and becomes less mobile. It restricts our body movements. It strangles Nerves and Blood Vessels. And it negatively affects everything else it surrounds such as internal Organs and muscle cells, body parts and then become functionally impaired. The posture of a body becomes distorted, which further affects function, health and life and sometimes how you feel about yourself.
Drinking more water does not necessarily change the state of these connective tissues. Like a hard kitchen counter, water cannot penetrate hardened tissues. However, with proper MyoFascial Therapy, tissues will gradually become more able to accept this water and the connective tissues will become more healthy and functional. As this begins to happen, Structural Integration strategies will become more achievable.
Properly done all therapies and techniques have beneficial MyoFascial aspects. Some techniques are lighter, and some are more deep and aggressive. Treatment goals focus on creating more space within tissues, enabling increased motion and function, which also includes improved physiological functioning of your body.
Joel Safran has had over 28 years of training and proven experience using various MyoFascial Techniques. Connective tissue therapies are a very important aspect of his treatment approach.
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Neuromuscular Therapy Remove
Neuromuscular Therapy
People with chronic pain want a thorough therapeutic approach rather than repetitive Patchwork Treatments. They really want an effective manual therapy approach that is based on understanding the body's many inter relationships. They want a strategic treatment plan that makes good sense.
That is what you can expect from Joel Safran, a Certified NeuroMuscular Therapist and former member of the St. John teaching staff. With over 28 years of proven experience, you can expect more from him.
Neuromuscular Therapy is a specific approach for the effective treatment of pain and dysfunction. By dysfunction, we mean reduced range of motion,loss of strength, agility and dexterity, the development of neurological disorders and their sensations, impaired physiological functioning of various body systems.
When you begin working with Safran Rehab and Wellness Therapies be assured that you have found the therapeutic help you have been searching for. In working with conditions that are too numerous to list, NeuroMuscular Therapy, along with other appropriate therapies and techniques are employed to achieve the best results possible. If Chronic Conditions involve Soft tissue (they all do), Joel Safran has the training and experience you are looking for. If the problem has to do with broken bones or invading harmful microbes, his treatments will have a more secondary benefit... but still quite beneficial.
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TMJ Remove
TMJ
TMJ (TemporoMandibular Joint) Disorders, for the most part, are the result of CranioSacral distortions which negatively affect structure and function of the body. The Jaw is generally not the main problem, even though that is where the pain, wobble and click is noticed. Usually there are numerous possible structural distortions and restrictions that will be found among the "the Bones" and related tissues. To start off with, there are 22 Cranial Bones with hundreds of articulations between them. Then there are the bones of the Spinal Column and the Sacrum. Structural distortions within that whole "CranioSacral System" usually prove to be the "root cause" of TMJ Disorders.
Over many years, these structural distortions have increasingly developed into Soft Tissue imbalances that have become the pains, annoying discomforts and dysfunctions that patients gradually were made aware of. In addition to that, people are all different. Therefore, the ways in which these structural distortions and imbalances developed will also be quite different from patient to patient. This adds to the complexities presented to the doctor or therapist you choose to work with.
While TMJ disorders are often quite complex, the Joint and its Capsule are actually quite simple. The Mandible has only one articulation to each of the two Temporal Bones of either side of your head. Within that capsule is a disc that enables the Condyle of the Mandible to slide forward so you can more widely open your mouth.
Both Temporal Bones should have a symmetrical rotational relationship with each other. If they do not, most probably the reason for that can be found in the Spine, Sacrum and Pelvic Bones. That structural distortion will then send up a distortion wave that will affect the position of the Temporal Bones and the resultant position and movement within the TMJ and all related soft tissues. Over a period of years, this wave of structural distortion gradually begins to be noticed as the familiar symptoms listed below. The distortion process actually began many years ago, quite often from birth.
Therefore, if someone just treats you in the area around the Jaw and only externally at that the treatment would not be dealing with the "root cause" or the entire chain of events that most likely created the TMJ disorder and discomfort in the first place. The TMJ is actually quite simple but disorders are usually very illusive and complex at the same time. Joel Safran has many years of experience in resolving the effects of this condition.
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