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# Practical Bodywork

Integrated Massage Therapy for Pain Relief in Philadelphia

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- [Foam Roller Therapy: Why It’s Awesome](https://practicalbodywork.com/foam-roller-therapy-why-its-awesome/) - Practical Bodywork is thrilled to bring you this guest post by Jesse James Retherford of TAO-Fit.com. Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a huge advocate of foam roller therapy, and for a good reason: it works. In my personal and professional life I have found that foam roller therapy is an incredibly valuable practice. It
- [Why Are Rehab Centers So Ugly? (Part I)](https://practicalbodywork.com/why-are-rehab-centers-so-ugly-part-i/) - That’s a rhetorical question. I may never know why rehab centers are ugly, because I’m not going to physical therapy school, and you may never understand a system until you’ve worked within it. While I was researching a career in physical therapy, however, I interviewed at several institutions where physical therapy takes place. I vowed
- [Ridiculous Shoes](https://practicalbodywork.com/ridiculous-shoes/) - I'm addicted to shoe shopping. The shoes in my wardrobe fall into two categories: the Beautiful and the Comfortable. The Beautiful ones stand around gathering dust. The comfortable ones only exit my life due to structural collapse. This is the case because I have Problem Feet. They are long, flat, strangely shaped (the technical term
- [How To Master Pain](https://practicalbodywork.com/how-to-master-pain/) - ately, I've been tackling something way harder than forearm stands--fear, anxiety, and pain. When I notice myself doing things like surfing social media for hours, reaching for sugar, carbs and alcohol, finding ANYTHING to do except the next thing on my task list, that's a red flag. I'm suppressing feelings that I don't like having.
- [Permission to Wallow](https://practicalbodywork.com/permission-to-wallow/) - Even if you haven't said anything, I see you. Even if you don't want to bother anyone, because it's more of the same, and people's patience is bound to give out. Even if depression is a cliche, even if it's seasonal, even if you have damn good reason. Your brain, evolutionarily speaking, DOES have
- [The Biochemistry of Rage](https://practicalbodywork.com/biochemistry-rage/) - CW: sexual assault When I was in my early twenties, a friend of mine started having neurological problems. Intermittent, acute idiopathic pain, fatigue, and intermittent paralysis. Doctors could not find a cause. Some accused them of making it up to get attention. At the same time, this friend started having flashbacks. Memories, long buried, of
- [Satirical Aerobics](https://practicalbodywork.com/satirical-aerobics/) - For years I have had a dream. It strikes me that most exercise videos are excessively earnest. Perky! Sincere! Cheerleader-esque! There seemed to be few, if any, home workout routines for people with a healthy sense of irony, and a taste for the absurd. My people. For too long I lacked the time, the equipment,
- [Lazy, Self-Indulgent Workaholics](https://practicalbodywork.com/lazy-self-indulgent-workaholics/) - I'm signed up for a lot of Inspirational Mailing Lists. My inbox is inundated with a symphony of earnest healers and coaches, all urging me to "Slow down to speed up! Take some time for reflection! Don't be busy for the sake of it!" If they only knew. Sometimes I think the systems I've created
- [Doing Voodoo On Your Spine (Not)](https://practicalbodywork.com/doing-voodoo-on-your-spine-not/) - In the fifteen years since integrating Reiki with my bodywork sessions, I've only had one client get creeped out by it. Oddly, she was a craniosacral therapist, and thus (I thought), should have known better. Craniosacral therapy, like other forms of "energy work," is..subtle, and attracts attention from Quackwatch. The practitioner puts her hands on
- [On The Bleeding Edge of Science](https://practicalbodywork.com/on-the-bleeding-edge-of-science/) - Twenty years ago, a friend of mine stopped being able to walk. It happened intermittently. She'd be fine for a few weeks or months, then collapse. She had intense pelvic pain that doctors couldn't find a reason for. Some thought she was faking it and sent her to the psych ward, or gave her
- [A Pansy Grows in Philadelphia](https://practicalbodywork.com/a-pansy-grows-in-philadelphia/) - When I was struggling with a partner who was chronically unemployed, Kate Jesuele put me in boxing gloves, turned up the boom box, and told me, "Leave it all on the bag." Two weeks later I kicked him out. When I was having panic attacks after separating from my partner, Terrie Lewine of Back to
- [The Trash Heap of the Soul](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-trash-heap-of-the-soul/) - Ten weeks ago, our new back yard was a weed-choked wasteland. We moved in late April; it took a couple of weeks to unpack. By the time we tackled the yard, it was already late in the season. We turned over some beds, threw down some seeds, bunged in a few starters ("bunged' is a
- [Why Practical?](https://practicalbodywork.com/why-practical/) - So why did I decide to name my massage therapy practice ‘Practical Bodywork’? For entirely pragmatic reasons, of course. On the West Coast, where I got my training, everybody names their businesses things like ‘Soul Harmony,’ and gets away with it. On the East Coast, this is openly mocked. I wanted a name that I
- [Let’s Go Dancing!](https://practicalbodywork.com/lets-go-dancing/) - Do you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle with gravity? Have you stopped going dancing? Do you skip workouts because it hurts too much? I know what that’s like. But there’s hope! Meet your fascia. It holds you together. And, as this groovy video shows, it’s capable of shifting in nearly infinite ways: Notice
- [The Mechanics of Miracles](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-mechanics-of-miracles/) - After twelve years of practice, I’m finally getting around to reading Anatomy Trains, by Tom Myers. It’s blowing my mind–not so much because it’s giving me new information, but because it’s describing why my way of doing bodywork has the results it does. For example, it’s a common thing for a client to come in complaining of neck
- [Beautiful Kensington](https://practicalbodywork.com/beautiful-kensington/) - When we moved to Philadelphia, Joe and I spent a LOT of time house-hunting. We scoured every neighborhood in the city, often block by block, photographing every ‘for rent’ sign on every halfway decent building. We wanted light, space, affordability, and that elusive phenomenon, ‘community.’ In Kensington, it seemed like the sun was always shining.
- [Fear Itself](https://practicalbodywork.com/fear-itself/) - Scientists get around to noticing the obvious: What if Sullivan’s anxiety wasn’t merely an emotional side effect of her difficult life but the central issue affecting her health? According to research that Burke had been reading, the traumatic events that Sullivan experienced in childhood had likely caused significant and long-lasting chemical changes in both her brain
- [Is Reiki Flaky?](https://practicalbodywork.com/is-reiki-flaky/) - Image via Wikipedia Recently I interviewed a colleague, Kathy Fleetwood, about her Reiki practice. She lit up. “It’s changed my life,” she declared. Last year, Kathy’s mother came down with something that doctors tentatively diagnosed as Parkinson’s. She lost weight, was too exhausted to work, ached all over, and walked with a shuffle and a stoop. Kathy
- [Weight Loss, Revisited](https://practicalbodywork.com/weight-loss-revisited/) - Certain Foods Can Aid Weight Loss – NYTimes.com. Pureed vegetables in your casseroles? Seems devious and mildly depressing, but if you must. However, Pretty Lady’s advice for joyous weight loss is still relevant, so here it is, virtually unedited. 1. Do yoga. Yoga, by and large, will not directly help a person lose weight. It does, however,
- [What Kind of Massage Should I Get?](https://practicalbodywork.com/what-kind-of-massage-should-i-get/) - The spa menu! Was there ever a thing so enticing, and simultaneously bewildering? ‘Bamboo Raindrop Swedish Scalp Treatment’! ‘Ayurvedic Aromatherapy Deep Tissue Scrub’! ‘Lavender Acupressure Intensive for Neck Pain’! ‘Meditative Earth Massage with Reflexology’? How in the world do you decide which one you need? The dirty secret is, 90% of all this is marketing.
- [When to See a Doctor](https://practicalbodywork.com/when-to-see-a-doctor/) - Know your anatomy!You wouldn’t think people would ever get their massage therapist confused with their M.D., would you? You’d be surprised.It’s touching and flattering, how often I am asked for my input on potentially serious medical conditions. Possibly this is due to the fact that 1) I see a lot of people in varying degrees
- [Things I Didn’t Know](https://practicalbodywork.com/things-i-didnt-know/) - You learn something new every day: In Women, Hernias May Be Hidden Agony – NYTimes.com. Unlike hernias in men, which are far more common, those that afflict women are usually small and internal and rarely cause an obvious bulge. Symptoms can be suggestive of other problems — ovarian cysts, fibroids, endometriosis or adhesions from a
- [It Hurts Because It Hurts](https://practicalbodywork.com/it-hurts-because-it-hurts/) - Ten percent of the time, pain becomes its own feedback loop:
- [‘Self Care for Back Pain’ Free Download!](https://practicalbodywork.com/self-care-for-back-pain-free-download/) - I’ve written my first e-book. It was a blast. I compiled all my favorite tips for dealing with back pain–neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back–took a bunch of pictures of myself in silly poses, learned some epub software and put it all together. You can download it for free by subscribing to my mailing list. (I’m
- [To Talk, or Not To Talk?](https://practicalbodywork.com/to-talk-or-not-to-talk/) - ’m the first to admit it–chatty clients are fun. Some of my best friends started out as clients who hopped on the table and started a conversation that wouldn’t quit. Don't interrupt my meditation! But this was, and is, always their choice. It is very important to me that my clients have the option of
- [Massaging the Violin](https://practicalbodywork.com/massaging-the-violin/) - Science has finally come around to studying massage, sort of: Massages Ease Low Back Pain – NYTimes.com. …Each of the massage groups received 10 weeks of treatment, and at the end of that period, all three groups had some improvement, as measured by their answers to 23 questions about performing routine activities without help —
- [When Stress Is The Problem](https://practicalbodywork.com/when-stress-is-the-problem/) - How many holistic healing practitioners have you encountered who piously urge you to ‘eliminate stress’? You’re not ‘living the life’ unless you’re ‘free from stress’! Just makes you want to smack ‘em. Because stress happens. If your life is entirely free from stress, you’re either a sociopath or you’re dead. You can eat healthy, exercise, meditate,
- [Physician Heal Thyself](https://practicalbodywork.com/physician-heal-thyself/) - Image via Wikipedia –guest post by Sujatha Ramakrishna, M.D. Having a family full of doctors can be such a mixed blessing. Most physicians are aware of the pitfalls of being related to someone who knows way too much about every little ache or cough. When I was a fourth-year medical student interviewing for residency positions in
- [How Art Heals](https://practicalbodywork.com/how-art-heals/) - As a visual artist, I have long maintained that one’s surroundings have a profound effect on one’s health, or lack thereof. I once founded a gallery in Brooklyn named ‘Healing Arts.’ Now a friend of mine, Kesha Bruce, is producing a project called 6×6, based on the premise that artists can exhibit, market and sell their work
- [A Tip for Young Healers](https://practicalbodywork.com/a-tip-for-young-healers/) - Several years ago, a guy from my yoga class offered me a ‘free nutritional counseling session.’ He was a student at a holistic health program and needed to get practice credits. I said sure, why not–even though I’m pretty confident that my nutritional needs get met, and have the bursting health to prove it, I
- [Why Are Rehab Centers So Ugly? (Part II)](https://practicalbodywork.com/why-are-rehab-centers-so-ugly-part-ii/) - I’ve been a professional fine artist for half my life. The aesthetics of my surroundings are as important to me as the quality of the air I breathe. A vast empty wall in my living space makes me feel as though I am in prison. I can make a case for the notion that kitsch is
- [The Body Remembers](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-body-remembers/) - I am so thankful for the treatment that I received!!! I walked in the office a horrific mess, and Stephanie showed her concern and learned what the issue was that I was having and in four short weeks, my body responded to the gentle, yet firm work that she was putting into it. My recovery
- [After the Fall](https://practicalbodywork.com/after-the-fall/) - Recently a new client, Susie M., booked a four-session package sight unseen. “When I read about your ankle, I knew you were the one for me,” she said. Susie sprained, and possibly broke, her right ankle four years ago. There was some confusion as to whether there was a bone chip floating around in there or
- [The Perils of Positive Thinking](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-perils-of-positive-thinking/) - Now, I’m not going to name any names. Let’s just say that There are Those Out There who will tell you, with great fluidity and earnestness, that you are what you think. That “your attitude determines your altitude.” That changing your mind will change your life. They will tell you this in a spiritual context,
- [Grace](https://practicalbodywork.com/grace/) - I used to be a dancer. Got bitten by ballet at the age of four, and pursued it with pathological focus until the age of seventeen, when I abruptly quit and devoted myself to breakdancing at indy-rock clubs instead. At the same time, I studied anatomy and physiology in a pre-med level of detail, complete–I
- [The Roots of Chronic Pain](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-roots-of-chronic-pain/) - New research shows direct hormonal links between childhood trauma and adulthood disease: There are two pieces of information that really provide the bridge to understand the connection between emotional trauma and adult disease, and the HPA axis is one of those pieces. The other is epigenetics. It starts with the hypothalamus in the brain, so that when
- [How to Heal Your Space](https://practicalbodywork.com/how-to-heal-your-space/) - What does your environment say to you? Does your space say, "I am free, healthy, wealthy and safe," or "I live a life of bleak, pointless drudgery"? I’m not asking what it says about you. Psychology is not my field. I’m asking what kind of messages your mind receives from your surroundings on a regular basis. Are
- [Why I Am A Bodyworker](https://practicalbodywork.com/why-i-am-a-bodyworker/) - Talk about stumbling upon a gift. At the age of four, during a performance of The Nutcracker, it was revealed to me that I was destined to be a Famous Ballerina. I pursued this vocation with focused determination until the age of seventeen, when I acknowledged that no girl with flat feet and limited hip
- [The Smoking Gun](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-smoking-gun/) - A widely-reported study finally traces the mechanism by which massage therapy reduces pain and promotes healing: They found that massage reduced the production of compounds called cytokines, which play a critical role in inflammation. Massage also stimulated mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses inside cells that convert glucose into the energy essential for cell function and repair. “The bottom
- [You Cannot Control Your Posture](https://practicalbodywork.com/you-cannot-control-your-posture/) - Do you hear that? You’re not responsible for sitting up straight: You do not have conscious control over your postural muscles. Your postural muscles are controlled by a part of your sub-conscious system. If you had conscious control over your posture you would be unable to do anything else. For example, while you are reading this,
- [Vision for the Future of Healthcare](https://practicalbodywork.com/vision-for-the-future-of-healthcare/) - 'Winter and Spring,' stained glass by Judith Schaecter, 30" x 38", judithschaecter.com Wouldn’t it be amazing if: • You could go to your doctor with severe pain, and she would write you a prescription for a course of massage therapy and other bodywork, which not only blissed you out, but solved your problem without the nasty side
- [So How The Hell Do We Do That???](https://practicalbodywork.com/so-how-the-hell-do-we-do-that/) - As some of my wise friends point out, changing the face of healthcare is a quixotic proposition. It’s all very well to saythat your doctor should be prescribing more massage than painkillers, that insurance should cover it, and that everyone should be insured. But as we all know, our broken healthcare system makes far more money by selling
- [The You-ness of Rolfing](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-you-ness-of-rolfing/) - Theresa Zordan is an expert Rolfer and visionary blogger from Denver, CO who graciously offered to swap guest posts with Practical Bodywork. We are pleased as punch to have her. It may be hard to believe, but sometimes I forget about Rolfing and how helpful it can be. It’s especially hard to believe considering I am a
- [What to Do When You Can’t DO Anything](https://practicalbodywork.com/what-to-do-when-you-cant-do-anything/) - As many of you know, my brother-in-law, Leif, is currently battling a rare form of cancer called mantle cell lymphoma. He’s young, formidably strong and has one of the healthiest lifestyles of anyone I know. We went up to Maine to visit him last week. It’s impossible to describe what it’s like to watch someone you
- [Big Healthcare and Cheesecake](https://practicalbodywork.com/big-healthcare-and-cheesecake/) - I always get a little giddy when a new article by Atul Gawande appears. The latest, in which he compares the quality control and cost efficiency at the Cheesecake Factory with that of Big Healthcare, does not disappoint: The neurologist, after giving her a two-minute exam, suggested tests that had already been done and wrote a prescription that
- [The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-myth-of-the-chemical-imbalance/) - by Sujatha Ramakrishna, M.D. It’s been over a decade now since the pharmaceutical industry started exposing the American public to advertisements such as this one: In that time I’ve encountered many patients who simply state, “I have a chemical imbalance,” when I ask them what brings them into the office. They don’t want to discuss their
- [Dopamine and Desperation](https://practicalbodywork.com/dopamine-and-desperation/) - This past weekend, I attended a seminar on how to write a bestseller. Unsurprisingly, the focus of the event was mostly upon publicity and marketing. (If nuanced insights and a scintillating prose style were all that were required to sell books…well, I can dream.) One of the speakers had a lot of energy. At first,
- [Ben Affleck’s Hidden Power of Healing](https://practicalbodywork.com/ben-afflecks-hidden-power-of-healing/) - Recently, I had a four-hour layover in Times Square. I was taking the bus up north to visit family, one of whom is critically ill, and my stress level was seismic. Times Square is not a restorative locale at the best of times; after ducking into Le Pain Quotidien for an overpriced lunch, and unwilling
- [Why Einstein Was a Genius: He Did Brain Push-Ups](https://practicalbodywork.com/why-einstein-was-a-genius-he-did-brain-push-ups/) - Why Einstein Was a Genius – ScienceNOW. Although the brain, weighing 1230 grams, is only average in size, several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in other subjects. For example, the regions on the left side of the brain that facilitate sensory inputs into, and motor control of, the face and tongue are
- [The Traps of Treating Pain](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-traps-of-treating-pain/) - Doctors admit that there are sometimes few good options for treating chronic pain: Doctors hate pain. Let me count the ways. We hate it because we are (mostly) kindhearted and hate to see people suffer. We hate it because it is invisible, cannot be measured or monitored, and varies wildly and unpredictably from person to
- [The Five Stages of Healing (Bodyworker Edition)](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-five-stages-of-healing-bodyworker-edition/) - Like a lot of other practitioners, I tend to suffer from bodyworker machismo. I spend my days treating other people’s pain, and ignoring my own. Which is exactly what I advise my clients not to do. Recently, I hurt my foot. The technical description of what I did was tearing the plantar fascia on my
- [3 Quick Tips to Melt Stress, Boost Energy, and Enjoy the Holidays](https://practicalbodywork.com/three-tips/) - What if I told you the Secrets to Stress Management, Time Management, and Improving your Health were all FREE, already exist inside of you, AND are inspired by ancient Eastern wisdom? Sounds too good to be true, eh? Then, what if I told you I could teach you these secrets in less than 2 minutes
- [What To Do When Pain Disturbs Your Sleep](https://practicalbodywork.com/what-to-do-when-pain-disturbs-your-sleep/) - So many of my clients know the drill. Pain wakes you up, you sleep badly, the pain gets worse because you haven't slept well. Talk about negative feedback loops! It can make you desperate. Web MD has a great checklist for helping yourself sleep better when you're struggling with the pain/lousy sleep cycle: Cut back
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: What About This Four-Cups-of-Coffee Bombshell?](https://practicalbodywork.com/tuesday-health-controversy-what-about-this-four-cups-of-coffee-bombshell/) - It's been all over the news: a study published last week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicates that drinking more than four cups of coffee a day may be hazardous to your health, particularly if you are under 55. The researchers found that younger men who passed the 28-cup weekly threshold – which works out to
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: How To Hobble Your Ankle Without Falling Down](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-how-to-hobble-your-ankle-without-falling-down/) - Update on the crippled ankle: last weekend I used a foam roller on the spot where my hamstrings attach to my ischial tuberosity--the butt bone--and my ankle joint cracked. It's been getting gradually better ever since. The first thing I do every day is foam-roller that same spot, because it seizes up overnight. So, how
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: I Am Embarrassed To Tell You This, But...](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-i-am-embarrassed-to-tell-you-this-but/) - ...I'm wearing an ankle brace. Turns out my crippled ankle wasn't psychosomatic after all. According to my fabulous new podiatrist, I have posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, caused by the extra bone in my flat, flat foot torquing my gait and stretching the tendon until it is practically shredded. He says if I don't wear this
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: How To Avoid Being Swallowed](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-how-to-avoid-being-swallowed/) - It's impossible to overstate how big an effect your environment has on your nervous system. Living in urban environments, it's easy to forget that human beings evolved, literally, in nature. Our nervous systems are attuned to cues that have been in place for millions of years--when to wake up (light gets blue), when to go to
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: Is 'Tapping' For Real?](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-is-tapping-for-real/) - Full disclosure: I just did this. Three times. I felt like a real fool. But I've had an inflamed ankle for way too long now, especially considering that my job is to relieve problems like chronically inflamed ankles. I know what's causing it. I got into this line of work partly because of first-hand experience
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: Blame Is Of The Devil](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-blame-is-of-the-devil/) - Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965) A new book, 'Scarcity,' details groundbreaking research on what poverty does to the mind: Worrying about money when it
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: How To Solve A Problem](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-how-to-solve-a-problem/) - "No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness which created it."--Albert Einstein Last week we discussed the effects of scarcity on the brain's ability to think. The more pressing and immediate our problems, the less bandwidth we have available for coping with them. This holds true for money problems, relationship problems, time
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: A Jaundiced View](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday/) - I've been spreading a lot of yellow around these days. The latest Practical Bodywork space design project is a north-facing nursery, designed to evoke the Hundred Acre Wood. When mama and I sat down in the room with roughly 200 color swatches, it became clear that the background had to be 'Peach Tickle,' which leaped
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: Is Your Posture Hurting You in the Paycheck?](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-is-your-posture-hurting-you-in-the-paycheck/) - Interview with Sara Canuso, speaker, author, personal branding expert. Sara is the founder of A Suitable Solution: Elevate Your Power, Influence & Income. She coaches clients on how to build their personal brand through non-verbal communication. You have worked primarily with lawyers, helping them improve their image through non-verbal cues such as posture, body language
- [How To Make Your Body Disappear](https://practicalbodywork.com/how-to-make-your-body-disappear/) - Some fun new research has discovered that turning your gym into an oversized, self-propelled boom box can boost your workout performance: ...the results showed that most of the volunteers had generated significantly greater muscular force while working at the musically equipped machines than the unmodified ones. They also had used less oxygen to generate that
- [Touchy Topic Tuesday: Supermarket Horrors](https://practicalbodywork.com/touchy-topic-tuesday-supermarket-horrors/) - I love to grocery shop. It's grounding, sensual, creative and pragmatic. In a world full of anxiety, filling my cupboards with a week's worth of healthy meals feels like putting a carabiner in the cliff face of my life. But I'm also a professional health-news junkie. And now my local Superfresh is a minefield. Top
- [The Problems That Can't Be Solved](https://practicalbodywork.com/the-problems-that-cant-be-solved/) - My brother-in-law, Leif Weaver, passed away on November 14, after an eighteen-month battle with aggressive mantle-cell lymphoma. I loved him a whole lot. His memorial was filled with friends and family who were just as broken-hearted, many of whom had flown cross-country on a few hours' notice to say goodbye. We spent the evening swapping
- [Get Your Body Back!!!](https://practicalbodywork.com/get-your-body-back/) - I always thought that personal trainers were for trophy wives. Which would not be me. Plus, I hate gyms. I see no reason to subject myself to an environment full of clanking torture devices, fluorescent lights, TV screens, hideous music, sweaty odors and the sound of grunting. Not when the free, beautiful outdoors--for running, hiking,

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- [About](https://practicalbodywork.com/about/) - Practical Bodywork Practical Bodywork provides high-caliber therapeutic bodywork, geared toward solving our clients' problems with chronic pain and restricted mobility. We offer a strong complement to treatments such as physical therapy and chiropractic care; we believe that the best healthcare is collaborative. Your well-being is our highest priority. Stephanie Lee Jackson Stephanie Lee Jackson, LMT,
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