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Massage Therapy for Chronic Low-Back Pain Research released in July 2011 expanded on previous studies demonstrating the effectiveness of massage therapy for chronic low back pain. Researchers found that “patients receiving massage were twice as likely as those receiving usual care to report significant improvements in both their pain and function”. The study was conducted [...]

Supporting Male Athletes In December 2012, our Sports/Injury Specialist, David, was interviewed by DaySpa Magazine to help them understand the needs of male athletes. Their article, “SPA TREATMENTS: Catering to Male Athletes,” likely stems from the trend that women typically take “better care” of themselves and seek professional support & care more frequently…especially in the [...]

Sports Massage Therapy Reduces Inflammation Post Workout After a hard workout, nothing feels better than a good sports massage. We call it a “flush,” and technically speaking it’s a post-event massage designed to help athletes recover faster so they can train harder. For years, we have know that massage relieves pain in injured muscles after [...]

Massage for Knee Osteoarthritis and Knee Pain Have your Knees been Achy with Cold Weather? Do you have Increased Knee Pain from Skiing, Hiking or Snowshoeing? Study Determines Optimal Dose of Massage Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Research supported by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) showed that 60-minute sessions of [...]

Learn More About Fascia We recently watched this amazing video (see clip above) from Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau, MD called “Interior Architectures.” The video explores the fascial connections and connective tissue within our bodies using an HD camera and clearly demonstrates just how integrated our tissues really are. For those of you who have heard David, [...]

“Sweet Little Lies: The 40-yr Campaign to Cover up Evidence that Sugar Kills” Cheers to Mother Jones for their insightful article on the sugar industry and their often successful attempts to lull us into thinking that sugar isn’t so bad for us. “For 40 years, the sugar industry’s priority has been to shed doubt on [...]

Healing Massage: Healthy Therapy For Cancer Patients by guest blogger Melanie Bowen Awareness Advocate for Natural Health Few things in life are more stressful than a diagnosis of cancer and the subsequent treatments that follow. Stress, however, is a known contributor to poor health and diseases, which makes controlling stress for a person going through [...]

The 12 Most Important Foods Everyone Should Eat Everyday! On October 22nd, Boulder Therapeutics & Pace + West Physical Therapy kicked off our bi-monthly lecture series with a Nutrition Talk given by nutritionist Pam Vagnieres. With over 20 people in attendance, we all learned how to eat a well-balanced diet which focuses on reducing inflammation [...]

Health Benefits of Yoga This article, written by NursingDegree.net, highlights 77 health benefits of yoga. We’re happy to see this article published by a medical website supporting the numerous benefits of yoga. Read the full article here. Health Benefits Within From lowering blood pressure to increasing pain tolerance, these health benefits can all be discovered [...]

AcroYoga Therapeutic Flying What is AcroYoga? AcroYoga blends the wisdom of yoga, the dynamic power of acrobatics, and the loving kindness of healing arts. These three lineages form the foundation of a practice that cultivates trust, playfulness, and community. What is Therapeutic Flying? AcroYoga has 3 main elements to the practice, yoga, acrobatics and healing [...]