Need help staying on course with your therapy?
Are you struggling to stay on course after discharge? Our new Refresher Course can provide the necessary support to keep you focused on your health goals. We are now offering individualized 60-minute refresher sessions through our SelfCare U Studio. Sign Up on-line at motivatetherapy.com/selfcareu.
Endometriosis and Chronic Pain
Happy Spring! March is usually the time when we start being able to get outside and become more active. At Motivate, we are certainly ready for that, but if you are suffering from conditions such as endometriosis (endo) and/or chronic pelvic pain (CPP) you may not feel that same excitement. These conditions often cause cyclical […]
Massage and Stretching Ease Male Pelvic Pain
Along with scar tissue constrictions due to prostatectomies and increased pain experienced from prostatitis, it is common to hold a vast amount of tension and tightness in the male pelvic floor and surrounding muscles. Due to classic male posture, we usually find excessive tightness in the glutes and hip flexors. At Motivate we believe it […]
Find Your Center Every Day
Please post this quote up somewhere that you can see it everyday. We all need this reminder from time to time, if not daily. For those who do not know my story, I have struggled with a chronic, neurological illness for over 5 years. I understand core weakness intimately now. This exercise may not look […]
Pregnancy and Postural Awareness: Strength through Stability
With childbirth comes many gifts: ????a beautiful baby or babies, ????a newfound motherly love, ???? and a brand new body! Yes, let’s see it as a gift. With this new body often comes structural integrity issues (think “loosey goosey”). Following pregnancy, many new mamas experience something called Diastasis Recti Abdominus or DRA, where the front […]
OT Month Lesson; Length and Strength Equals Core Coordination
Occupational therapists use a whole-body approach to treat all areas of an individual both psychologically, socially, and physically. It is our job to assess the effects of mental stress on our biology. Stress affects how we move because our body will always protect us, our tissues will lengthen or shorten, changing how we move. Pelvic […]
Tissue Pliability; OT’s Role in Pelvic Health
Occupational therapists utilize specialized manual interventions to prepare clients for ideal occupational performance. The goal to increase tissue pliability through connective tissue manipulation will help to reduce muscle tightness and fascial restrictions; by promoting fluid flow for tissue health. Otherwise known as “skin rolling” this technique can be incredibly effective in normalizing the blood, nerve, […]
Behavioral Awareness: Create Consistent Healthy Habits
A primary skill of occupational therapists is the ability to utilize activity analysis where we examine the demands of tasks and how a patient performs them. We then identify either environmental barriers and/or unhealthy habits that if changed could improve upon the client’s performance. Through education we bring awareness to these adverse behaviors and promote […]
Denise Nichols presents at the Shift Summit
????ARE YOU READY TO SHIFT WITH ME????? Forward Thinking Chiropractic Alliance presents this FREE 3-day virtual summit on April 23-25, 2021! Join us in attending FTCA SHIFT 2021. Denise is being featured as a speaker. She is presenting “Pelvic Floor Therapy; A Collaborative Approach. She is taking this opportunity to “train the trainers,” (Chiropractors and […]