Massage Therapy as part of Breast Cancer care
I have been working with a client who is in recovery from breast cancer and from the effects of the treatment for breast cancer. In many ways the latter is the larger piece. Her body bears the surgical...
View ArticleMy Willem Fourie Course
I was one of a lucky few who got to attend a three day course on treating connective tissue in breast cancer patients taught by Willem Fourie. This course provided me with more specific knowledge and...
View ArticleSurgery and the Body
After surgery your body is very busy indeed. It must finish dealing with the lingering effects of whatever took you into surgery and also heal you of the damage surgery has done. Strange to think of...
View ArticleHealing Series #5 – fractures
Have you ever broken a bone? Felt something go crunch and known that there were things moving against each other inside you that shouldn’t be? Did you have the trip to the emergency room, the...
View ArticleWillem Fourie, again…
Last week I spent two wonderful days in Vancouver. With hardly any shopping to enhance the experience. I attended an advanced seminar on post-mastectomy care with Willem Fourie, a leader in the world...
View Articlem-Medicine – the future of your doctor’s smartphone?
This weekend I was reading an article in the Globe and Mail regarding the impact of technology on health care, specifically mobile technology. The article referenced several areas in which mobile...
View ArticleInternational Fascia Research Congress 3 – Vancouver, BC, Day 1
***Beware – this post is a total fascia geekfest, if you are not prepared to deal with that, read a different post! Also, any factual errors are my faulty memory, not faulty presentations.*** Today...
View ArticleSome gutsy learning
vis·cer·al adjective of, or relating to, the viscera relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted, inward...
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