Myotherapist ~ Corrective Exercise Specialist
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Effective Muscular Pain Relief
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| What
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Rose
is exceptional in her understanding of her subject. She communicates
with excellence. She makes a success of everything she tries and
with Myotherapy she also includes her heart. Rose
Kahn's extraordinary myotherapeutic expertise and passionate intellect
helped me move from severe pain into no-pain in our first session.
After 35 years in a dancing/athletic profession I honestly attest
to Ms. Kahn's remarkable gift as a healing professional. You can
trust her to release and teach you to move in a body freed from
chronic discomfort. Rose Kahn is the real thing! I
have known Rose Kahn for 25 years. Her work is extraordinary. If
you're in pain, don't delay. This is the most powerful and therapeutic
bodywork on the planet! I highly recommend her. In
her downtown oasis, amidst great art and orchids, Rose's touch shifts
my overworked body out of pain BEFORE it becomes habit. Additionally,
she has introduced me to some cutting edge liquid food supplements
that are superb! This lady is in the "know"! Santa Barbara wins
from her relocation from Aspen!!! Rose
Kahn is an exceptional healer, who has helped me greatly in understanding
my body and how to take care of it. She unites experience, intuition
and passion to her therapy to create a one of a kind lasting experience.
Actually,
I'm grateful I fractured my back snowboarding or I wouldn't have
met Rose. In 3 sessions.......off painkillers and out of pain. After
a badly fractured and pinned wrist, my misshapen hand came alive
and reformed in an hour! I send my clients there and they get MORE
out of Pilates. Quit wasting your time and money elsewhere and call
her! As
a firm believer in trigger point therapy, and as an experienced
receiver....I heartily recommend Rose's particular special brand
approach for chronic pain relief! And her place is great, too. I
am an avid tennis player and I tend to give my right shoulder a
beating with my serve. I had an ongoing neck and shoulder pain that
was not getting any better. When I had an initial session with Rose,
she spent a significant time on that shoulder. Within a day or two,
the shoulder was at least 80% better and remained that way for over
6 months. When I finally had time for a follow up visit, my shoulder
was again a bit sore from tennis and computer work. Within a day,
my shoulder and neck again felt much better. I recommend Rose's
work to my patients who need localized muscle work in areas where
there is ongoing pain. She is passionate about her work and very
knowledgeable. I highly recommend getting a session! Growing
up in Boston, I knew the name Bonnie Prudden. Funny how it took
meeting Rose in Santa Barbara to understand what this method was
all about. I've used great bodywork over the years to manage my
low back pain. I was both surprised and elated that after one long
session (2+ hours), the pain subsided and my structure shifted.
Now I go for massage because its relaxing, my pain is not the issue.
It's my business to know what is cutting edge, a head above the
rest. Not crying over the fact that this technique eluded me for
so long. Now I know who to call and where to go when I'm in trouble.
I
had the pleasure to meet Rose in the course of building her page
for this Directory. In the short session we had, Rose showed a rare
balance of caring, intuition and strength as she greatly eased a
chronic pain I had in my back for many years. If you have pain,
anywhere in your body, there is no excuse for not calling Rose.
Thanks, Rose. |
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| What
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Working with a seasoned myotherapist, and faithfully reeducating your muscle memory, one should expect to feel some change and relief within 1-3 sessions. Depending upon how long one has suffered, age and general health, as well as one's unique ability to follow simple instruction, it will become evident if you require maintenance or can implement the powerful self-treatment techniques you will learn. Every person is unique and I am here to serve you, not to sell you Blue Sky! Bonnie Prudden pioneered this method in 1976. While working with President Kennedy's physician, Dr. Janet Travell (famous for trigger point injections), Bonnie replaced the hypodermic of procaine and saline with her elbow! She also saw the wisdom of adding easily taught specific corrective exercises. Her athletic and professional association with Dr. Hans Krause (orthopedics and exercise physiology) launched her into the public domain with "The Report That Shocked The President"! Eisenhower formed the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness as a result. No oil is used and natural fiber, loose clothing is suggested. Using the elbow, trigger points (highly irritable or hard spots in the muscles) are located and dissolved with an amount of pressure that is tolerated by the patient. Held for 7 seconds to a minute, slight modifications of the angles and technique usually produce an end to the pain-spasm-pain cycle. Deep circulation is amplified and the muscle fibers return to their original resting length. Specific corrective exercises are then employed by the patient 4-8 times a day for several minutes. These exercises retrain your muscular memory as you experience a pain-free body with greater balance and range of motion. Learning your limits and distinguishing the difference between therapeutic pain and injurious pain is significant. Guided by a highly skilled and intuitive therapist will assist you on your journey, at your own rate and ability to open up and pass through your current blockages and the holding or armoring patterns your body has adopted. Remember that this is not a natural state, rather a place one finds themselves residing while trying to ignore or cope with pain and limitation over time. Trigger points are laid down throughout your lifetime. Sports, injuries, repetitive motions, accidents, surgeries and illnesses all leave a fingerprint in your musculature. They can remain dormant for a very long time, waiting for the climate of stress, illness, accident or hormone changes to make them all light up and speak to you in the form of pain. This accounts for all the chronic pain that people seem to just wake up with one day! Often you can identify how and where you got hurt, yet more often it appears to have come out of the blue.
While 95% of all muscle related pain is permanently fixed with this method, it is prudent to know what the problem is from the start. For this reason, patients often come from referrals from their MD's, DC, DO, or DDS. This rules out other pathologies for which a more standard routine of care would benefit first. If one needed a total joint replacement, myotherapy would offer only temporary relief. Common problems that myotherapy can address: back or neck pain, rotator cuff syndrom, tendinitis, tennis elbow, bursitis, arthritis, sciatica, carpal tunnel, whiplash, TMJ, plantar fascitis, groin, hip and knee pain, migraines, cramps and abdominal problems. Repetitive strain injuries (RSI), experienced by artists, musicians, athletes, computer techs, golfers, surfers, tennis players, field sport players, runners, skiers, laborers, wait staff, and weekend warriors can all be addressed with success. Long term sufferers with chronic conditions such as chronic fatigue or myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, MS and diabetes will find myotherapy very useful in achieving a higher quality of daily living and movement. This is where the self-management techniques are both empowering to learn and cost effective in the management of your condition. MYOTHERAPY stands apart from other modalities as an authentic permanent fix. It works beautifully alongside those alternative methods in allowing the body to "hold" other work more efficiently (specifically manipulations) and also to get more range out of your Yoga or Pilates practice and gym routines. In order to get the most out of your sessions, sometimes the John Barnes, MPT style of "unwinding" or myofascial release (MFR), and often a gentle and deep barefoot deep tissue compression is incorporated. The principles can be applied in many forms. Chair work for those that can't stand and "Bed Ballet" for those recovering from strokes, coma, and other traumatic injuries. The creative employment of these principles is as endless as the alive and overflowing spirit you are filled with when you resume your daily life without nagging pain. For
a command of why I feel these are the most dynamic methods available
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| The
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Looking back I lived the first 20 years of my life as a tight bud. My name wasn't even Rose. That change came with the "flower....not with the roots". I graduated from The University of Oregon in 1974 where I bloomed as an artist. The beautiful Northwest was great inspiration and good to foster nature in the soul. Close to 20 years flew by living a colorful and large life as MAD ROSE, ceramicist and jewelry designer near San Francisco. My work was sold nationally and around the world! After lots of travel and "schlepping", the sleeping dragon in my muscles woke up! Trigger points lit up my arms and for 2 years I could not even lift a cup without extreme pain. I traded every world class healer with not much relief and no lasting results. Finally, a fellow artist who performed hand surgery for the SF Symphony sent me to a myotherapist. It took 3 months of treatment (1/8th the amount of time I suffered) and I was 100% back in the studio! In 1995 I moved to Aspen, Colorado where I promptly shattered my ankle! The "worst" they'd ever seen. Looking at 100 pairs of high heels, I heard the surgeon say I'd be lucky to walk without a limp for the rest of my life. I defied his prognosis. The healing was very slow. Lots of internal hardware and 9 months supine with my leg above my heart and a magical new love! Hiking the Divide and reclaiming my mobility, paramount. Chronic pain changed my personality and quieted my spirit.......With lots of time to think I realized this was a very dramatic way to get the message - time to change my career at mid life. After 5 months of traditional therapy, I took my crutches and went back to SF for myotherapy. After 3 treatments, I had better results than 48 sessions of PT. Luckily, I found a myotherapist near me and spent the next 9 months in treatment. One more surgery for hardware removal and 1 year later I moved to Tucson for a year. After 20 years in Stockbridge, MA., Bonnie moved the school to Arizona. It was accredited and offered a 1350 hour full time program. I was in the last official class graduating in 1998. Taught by Bonnie Prudden herself, 40 hours+ a week for 9 months felt like boot camp. Two years post accident, I still needed sneakers for floor exercise yet graduated barefoot, and strong. Empowered by the healing, principles, knowledge, and magic that was given to me there, carrying Bonnie's Legacy is a privilege and an honor. At 90 she is still working strong! The Aspen years gave me a full fledged accounting of how amazing this life/line of work really can be. I had a beautiful clinic on 8 pristine acres in Emma. Movie stars, professional athletes, and other body workers peppered the array of everyday outdoor people with common problems and rare ones. I treated hundreds of these interesting cases and characters ........the wildest and woolliest who also became my friends. My current team mate is my yellow Labrador, Rumi. He calms children and charms adults who value the presence of the animals. He is learning that not everyone enjoys his presence, so he is content to sulk in another room. Studying with a few other masters whose work dovetails with the essence of myotherapy has tempered my skill and honed my intuition. I have grown in order to also reflect that compassion and wisdom to the people who find their way to me for help. How
this relates to facilitating your healing is simple: And
lastly let me offer this: Blessings on your path.
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805-687-2499
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