A story of Hellerwork® A new client came into my office walking very gingerly, obviously in pain. With a grimace Bill lowered himself into a chair. He looked over at me and said, ”All I did was sneeze”. His next question was familiar to me. “Why does my back hurt so much”? Bill’s situation is not unusual. In fact most of my clients don’t end up in pain because of a serious accident or traumatic injury. Another client told me about taking a short hike and the next day her knee was swollen up like a balloon and very painful. She pleaded her case, “It was not a very hard hike, why does my knee hurt?” Most injuries and pain conditions accumulate over time. Our bodies absorb small injuries all th
Reflections by Meredith Osterman, LMT In college, I was part of Habitat for Humanity. We took trips every year during spring break to help build houses in other states . The first year or two we went to North Carolina. A year after Katrina hit in Louisiana we went to Slidell, a town just north of New Orleans. It was my first time seeing any kind of true, total devastation. Driving around the area we saw deserted towns and houses that had been swept away by water. On one of our excursions we were working to gut homes that had been destroyed. We went to a neighborhood that looked almost normal, except that it was completely empty. Before we could go in and start gutting, we had to put on ha
