by Kristin Schwengel | Jun 26, 2017 | Education
Defining a goal for your treatment is an important part of the process at Natural Balance Therapy – right on the initial intake paperwork, we ask what you would like your progress to look like. From many clients, we see answers like ‘run x distance or duration without...
by Natural Balance Therapy | Jun 21, 2017 | Education
When you experience pain and trauma, whether physical or emotional, you react instantaneously, entering a state of fight, flight, or freeze as your sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive. The freeze aspect is essentially where you “put on the brakes,” bracing...
by Kristin Schwengel | Jun 13, 2017 | Education
“I feel like I’m going around in circles – it keeps moving from my hip to my back to my neck and to my hip again.” “I was feeling so much better, but then the knee twinge came back just as bad as ever. I don’t get it – I wasn’t even doing anything strenuous.” I’ve...
by Amy Beyer | Jun 7, 2017 | Self-Treatment
Most of us have felt neck pain, stiffness, or tightness at some point in our lives. But, do you know how to release the tension? Our neck stretch is a modification, utilizing myofascial stretching principles, of a traditional stretch. Give this stretch a try with a...
by Amy Beyer | Jun 1, 2017 | Self-Treatment
Are you ready to experience a positive change to your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being? Ineffective breathing patterns are common in today’s society. Combining the fact that we are less active, sitting for longer periods of time, and have poor...