•Movement Techniques•
The movement techniques utilized at INTEGRATIVE Manual Therapy and Wellness are anatomy specific and enhance daily function whether you are an athlete or someone who works hard at a desk all day. We incorporate such techniques as Pilates on the mat, equipment Pilates, and small group Pilates. We also offer yoga, Yamuna Body Rolling, physio ball, strengthening, and postural reeducation. Each patiet's program is designed specifically to help them reach their wellness, fitness, and rehabilitation goals. Your progress can be tracked and supported by our whole team.
Functional Re-Education
Our physical therapists and certified Pilates instructors are trained to teach strengthening, stabilization and stretching exercises, postural re-education, and body mechanics training specific to your needs. This extensive regimen enables patients to return to regular activities of daily living, the work environment, or to prepare for new tasks or routines safely, while greatly decreasing the risk of injury or re-injury. Specific functional re-education training includes, but is not limited to:
- Body mechanics training for new mothers
- Postural re-education and strengthening for those with jobs that require lifting, bending, and/or repetitive movements
- Ergonomic evaluation of your car, work setting, or any other special environments.
Pilates
Pilates improves strength--especially core strength--as well as postural awareness, flexibility and coordination. This type of movement re-education provides the ideal environment for neuromuscular re-education by providing necessary modifications for a movement sequence so it can be re-learned safely and successfully. Patients can be challenged by changing exercises from assistive to resistive in challenging and fun ways. Pilates can also prepare a patient for the transition to functional activities.
Yoga
Yoga has swept the country as one of the most popular forms of exercise and relaxation, and it's no mystery as to why. Yoga works to eliminate toxins in the organs through postures and breathing exercises. By bending and stretching the spine, the nervous system is stimulated as surrounding muscles are relaxed, bringing balance to teh sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
Every aspect of the practice is a form of meditation. Therefore, it calms your body, breath, and mind. After only an hour of practice, you can walk away feeling refreshed for hours.
Yamuna Body Rolling
Yamuna Body Rolling is an exercise using inflatable balls designed exclusively for this practice. It consists of a series of routines using 6 to 10-inch balls. Yamuna Body Rolling allows you to work specific muscles in detail, releasing tight areas and optimizing range of motion. YBR reeducates muscles and stimulates bone, creating positive, permanent changes in the body.
Yamuna Body Rolling works in the way specific fascial release works – but by using a ball to assist you. The ball moves on and over muscles to stretch them, dislodge tension and discomfort, increase blood flow, and promote healing. Positioning different muscle groups over the ball, you roll your body out almost like dough, stretching and elongating your muscles. The YBR routines follow specific sequences that match the body’s own logic and order. Starting where each muscle begins, at its origin, you roll toward where it attaches, the point called its insertion.
“The beauty of Yamuna Body Rolling is that it takes you from the origin of the muscle at the tendon, elongating the muscle while stimulating the bone and soft tissue. Working with the body’s own gravity, the exercises ease movement in the muscles to the point of relaxation, offering one of the finest weight-bearing exercises, with the benefits of a deep self-massage.” -- Ms. Fitness Magazine
“The idea behind Body Rolling is that tension starts where the muscle originates – in the dense fibrous tendons that anchor them to bone. It’s this precise attention to stretching muscles from tendon to tendon that makes the exercise unique…After 15 minutes of doing the exercises on both legs, I can bend over and place my palms flat against the floor, a move I can usually only execute at the end of a two-hour yoga class.”-- Catherine Gutherie, Health Magazine, March 2002
At INTEGRATIVE we not only treat your current dysfunction, but we empower you to be prepared for future physical challenges.
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INTEGRATIVE
Manual Therapy & Wellness
350 W. 22nd Street, Suite 108
Norfolk, VA 23517
(757) 216.4151
