Chronic left SI joint pain that won't budge is humbling, even when someone has done everything right: good body awareness, a strong yoga practice, excellent care before they ever reach your table. So Michael starts where he always starts, listening. This case study follows the right thoracolumbar junction, a diaphragm release, and an unexpected acute flare that became a breakthrough, tracing how curiosity and presence shifted a long-standing pain pattern. The deeper lesson: sometimes the care itself, not the technique, is what creates change.

May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) awareness month. I am three months into a training program through the Ehlers Danlos Society’s ECHOs program. I have learned so much and feel humbled at what I was unaware of regarding the symptom pictures associated with these syndromes. It's more than bendy joints.

I’m excited about our Visceral Techniques curriculum. I believe working with the viscera is of increasing importance and I want people to be able to access this potent region.

We are super excited to be presenting a synthesis of our manual therapy approach to the abdomen--specifically focusing on chronic digestive patterns in the small intestine (such as SIBO)--coming up next weekend. 

As many of you who treat these conditions know, they can be complex and often defy available diagnostic categories and treatment protocols (e.g. patients often relapse, symptoms can be beguiling and mysterious, and lab results can run contrary to the patient experience).   In our course, together we will explore a holistic understanding -- combining a felt-sense approach to the abdomen with insights from both osteopathic and classical Chinese medicine.  We hope it will serve towards the further understanding and treatment of these difficult cases.