LowCountry Wellness
Center

I've recently been trained in the MYOKINESTHETIC System, and I believe in today's stressful world that this is the answer that we've been looking for!  No more long treatment sessions, every week for the rest of your life, just to be able to survive and get by.  This erases the pain and keeps it gone.  Developed and proven by a doctor, the MyoKinesthetic System:   (1) Alleviates Pain (2) Restores Function/Movement (3) Improves and Balances Posture (4) Resets the body and (5) Clears Compensations in less than 20 minutes and while fully clothed.  How can this work so quickly? It works by focusing on the nervous system, while working on the muscular system. It is a system designed to quickly and efficiently eliminate a patients chronic and acute symptoms. The results have been enormously successful.  Some of the issues that the MyoKinesthetic System upper body has been successful in helping with include: TMJ,  headaches of all kinds, Tennis Elbow / Golfer's elbow, numbness/tingling in fingers, carpal tunnel, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, rotator cuff issues, Pectoralis Minor Syndrome, and tendonitis.  Lower Body issues: Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendonitis, shin splints, sciatica, peripheral neuropathy (numbness or tingling) in calf/foot/toes, hip pain, and knee pain.  And for headaches, it clears them out in 10 minutes or less.  No more missing work for the day or week.

         For a limited time, I am offering a package of 6 sessions for this technique if prepaid**                             Please check the store tab for more information.

Stress Response System

Your Stress Response system (SRS) is what responds to the stress you are under on a daily basis. When it is over taxed it can actually kill you. The work piling up on your desk, sitting in traffic on the bridge, waiting in lines at the bank, balancing your budget, engaging in a relationship with your spouse or significant other, taking care of children or elderly family members, not having enough time in the day and especially not having enough time for yourself can put too much stress on your body and health. Having a healthy stress response system will allow you to deal with or respond to the stress in a healthier more efficient way.

What happens to your body when under stress?

Your body responds by sending out more adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. The brain increases the output of the hormone cortisol.  Too much cortisol causes muscles to tighten, blood pressure to rise, immune levels to fall, limits the brain's ability to make decisions, and increases the retention of fat.  Under stress, the brain also limits the release of the hormone seratonin.   Seratonin helps you sleep, calms anxiety, and relieves depression.  Simply put, stress will limit your performance. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances the brain's use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues.

Your stress response system usually will quiet down on its own after the stress has stopped. The thing is that most stress is ongoing meaning the body is always responding to stress. An uncontrolled increase in adrenalin and cortisol can have a negative affect on health. Over exposure to these and other stress hormones can disrupt almost all your body's processes, increasing your risk of obesity, insomnia, digestive problems, heart disease, depression, memory impairment, physical illnesses and other complications.

A healthy SRS allows reactions that are appropriately gauged to the circumstances: big reactions to big threats; small reactions to small threats.

Furthermore, people who have a sluggish SRS also tend to have more stress responses, more often, to less threatening stimuli; those responses have longer lasting effects on the body. This type of person fumes in a long checkout line, frets in heavy traffic and explodes when the dog gets into the garbage. This person may have a sluggish, but overreactive stress response and a tendency to develop depression.

What Determines the Health of the SRS?

Studies on animals reveal one reason for a sluggish stress response: lack of tactile stimulation, or touch. Touch improves the efficiency of the pituitary-adrenal axis or your stress response system. Receiving non sexual, nurturing, non threatening touch is one of the most important ways humans and other mammals have to keep a healthy stress response. Massage moves people from a sympathetic to a parasympathetic state. This brings about several physiological and chemical changes in the body, including an increase in serotonin secretion and a decrease in cortisol.

 Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs "comforting," while the stressed adult needs "medicine"?

-- from Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork by Deane Juhan