A Message from Your Friendly Neighbourhood Bio-Mechanic

It’s that time of year for your car’s tire change, oil change, and check-up. But what about your body? For example, if you hear grinding in the gears of your car you immediately bring it into your mechanic, but what about some grinding or clicking in your joints?

You have your mechanic for your car, you should have a bio-mechanic for your body. A bio-mechanic, like me, looks at whole-body movement and analyzes the interactions between muscles and joints to optimize performance.

It’s no coincidence that automobiles and human bodies have many things in common, including regular attention for long-term maintenance and performance.

Key commonalities include:

Both have shock absorbers, joints to lubricate, axes to align & balance, fuel tanks to store fuel, alternators that charge batteries, and both require preventative care.

Efficiency in Motion: Optimize Performance

"Prevent breakdowns” with regular self-care. Let’s look at different parts and how to care for them:

• Shock absorbers: discs, cartilage, and bursae. Reduce friction with daily mobility exercises including joints rotations, spinal waves, and low-impact activity like walking.

• Lubricate joints: wrists, elbows, shoulder, ankles, knees, hips, etc. Regular movement helps increase synovial fluid and blood circulation. Adequate hydration and Omega-3 fatty acids also play a role in supporting the quality of joint lubrication.

• Align axes: aka- “proper posture”. Bone-to-bone alignment allows muscles, tendons, and ligaments to perform properly. Yoga, fascial maneuvers, isometric contractions, and targeted strengthening improve balance.

  

  

  
  

• Fuel tanks: muscles, fat, and the liver. The food we eat fuels our energy, and a proper balance of quality glucose, fat, protein, and fiber all determine how well we will perform.

• Charge batteries: restore energy levels with adequate rest. Sleep, meditation, grounding, breathwork, and of course, massage therapy.

  
  

Reliable Service That Keeps You Moving Forward

When all else fails, get a massage! Not just any massage, but one that focuses on structural integration to release deep tension that holds the body in unwanted patterns.

An experienced bio-mechanic, like me, will analyze your posture and movement before because the visual cues help determine where to touch. Specific manual release of fascia involves using gentle compressions, pulsed pressure points, myofascial stretching, and mobilizations, which correct asymmetries in the body. Relieving chronic tension and patterns that hold the body out of alignment not only helps performance but liberates the individual from feeling stuck.

That’s the kind of reliable service that keeps you moving forward!

If you’re already a client of mine, you know that’s how I “roll”. Our sessions are always individualized… your very own “custom bodywork.” I could go on with the car puns, but I won’t.

What I do want is for you to pick one of these things, and act on it. Whether you go through this free checklist to work on your own body parts or come and see me, let me know how it goes!

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Bottom line, reducing pain and stress will improve your body’s alignment and movement.