Based in:
Bellevue, Washington
Explore advanced hot stone work and considerations for working with clients who have scoliosis. These classes focus on practical learning, careful technique, and professional development. They do not establish that massage corrects scoliosis.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific | Planned price: $180/ person
Proposed location: Discoverypoint School of Massage, 916 NE 65th St, Seattle. The venue is not booked.
In this youll learn advanced hot stone techniques that work on a host of chronic pain pathologies, and then how they apply to our Scoliosis protocol with care for inflamation and likely inflamed and weakened spinal structures.
Near the end of class we'll also offer free specialized work for random strangers so you can witness the same session curvature result. However are measurements focus on the client being prone before and after treatment, which will show less curvatures than when these measurements are taken in a standing position. In our last class every student suceeded at improving lumbar curves from 20-30 degress to an average of 5, and cervical curves from 10-20 to an average of 6. We will be following up with these volunteers to see how well these changes last and how they measure with their doctors.
And thus in our classes youre not just getting specialized instruction, but you're also learning cutting edge approaches to tough pathologies that can hopefully improve our industries dependability in results, even for those whove lost hope long ago.
Interventionall Wellness began when the founders wife developed crippling levels of Fibromyalgia in NY, NY and a host of specialists had no idea how to help her. This began a costly tutition at The Sweedish Instiute which has a $40,000 5 semester program. After 3 semesters the founder had to follow his wife across the country to new hopeful internships in the persuit of Vetrinary Oncology, which felt like an impossible goal given her pain and the intense competition of that life dream.
The founder spent every waking moment trying to help find a cure to what otherwise would become a trajic career and life tragectory. 9 months of failure and training for over 1,500 hours in various massage schoold ended up leading to each part of the puzzle needed to, for the first time, get lasting results with a massage, even if only minor at first.
This SOP was then hosted on a series of other pathologies as detailed in our detailed methodologies with great sucess. In total weve treated around 15 "impossible pathologies" among a long list of previous clients. Namely migraines, scoliosis, fibro etc. But we recognize our sucess with such a small sample size isnt evidence of a serious breakthrough.
That's why were now focused on teaching, training and testing our results with the help of deeply caring individuals and institutions that fight for better answers every day.
For everyone out there that feels unseen and with dwindling hope, hang in there, we see you.
Case Study # 1 - Fibromyalgia
We seek to create adjuntive SOP based sophisticated massage therapy responses to a host of neuromuscular pathologies, especially ones long believed impossible to fully treat. We believe the massage therapy is held back by two key issues:
1. Most rescearch tests if random techniques are effective on specific problems with mixed results. We posit that random proven drugs will also show mixed results for specific pathologies.
2. A key tool of the massage world, hot stones, have long been used wrongly in ways that make them the #1 lawsuit in the massage therapy world, instead of as an effctive tool for lasting results. Along with general fears and a lack of CEs on spinal work and pathology specialized approaches.
Our working hypothesis is that heat, pressure, pace, sequencing and repeated feedback may influence how well hypertonic muscles release on a lasting scale, while controlling for inflammation and contraindications. While we mayhave a high sucess rate with fibromyalgia, scoliosis, migraines, chronic pain, a few neuropathies (feeling like a right leg was being eaten alive) etc- we recognize that what truly matters is how well our results can be repeated.
Which is where our classes come in, that are pathology based and call for random strangers with that pathology to the end of those classes and test what same session results can be obtained and without any excess pain, aiming for a general 3/10 of the painscale with considerations for areas that may sit at 8/10 naturaly.
A central hypothesis is that hypertonic muscles seem to rob the body of more and more energy it needs to heals parts of itself that only it can. A massage thats only lasts for a few hours wont help here, but one that gives weeks of relaxation possibly can.
Presently we feel that our assistance to the Scoliosis village is relaxing the specific muscles that may be pulling the spine out of place, in tandem with our PT allies that work to restore core and structural strength and balance, while under the care and oversight of western doctors.
Stay tuned for a list and generic locations of those who have gone through our training.
Migraine and scoliosis projects are in planning, with clinical and research collaborators being sought. This is not an invitation to join an approved study. The research pages explain the questions, current limitations, and work required before a study could begin.
Athletic recovery and persistent pain are additional areas of interest. Their place in this program is described as proposed investigation, not a demonstrated result.
For massage availability in the Bellevue area, practitioner education inquiries, or a research conversation, email jason@interventionalwellness.org.
