What is a Functional Movement Screen (FMS)? The Functional Movement Screen or FMS is a 10-15 minute screening which involves various exercises and movements. Our practitioners will watch closely and assess any limitations in your movements to determine if the limitation is coming from weakness or immobility/stiffness. This test can reveal underlying limitations in movement patterns which can be the …
THANK YOU BOULDER! We are humbled and honored to be recognized as the Daily Camera’s BEST MASSAGE CLINIC for 2020 as voted by CU and Boulder! We love our community and thank everyone for their support. We strive to give exceptional service and work hard to help our clients heal fast. We are a highly skilled team of massage therapists …
Reduce Neck and Back Pain when Sitting Learn how to sit with good posture and proper spinal alignment. (watch the video) Stop Slouching! No Hunchbacks Please. Slouching or sitting in a hunched position can permanently alter your posture. If your job or schoolwork involves long hours of sitting, then your muscles and joints can get stiff, weak or imbalanced, causing …
Quoted in the Winter 2020 “32 Degrees Magazine: The Journal of Professional Snowsports Instruction.” Tips for a Successful Season: How to Keep your Mind, Body, and Gear in the Best Shape Possible. We’d like to thank Krista Crabtree for interviewing our Injury Specialist, David Abookire, for her article on Tips for a Successful Season in the Winter 2020 edition of …
What is a Therapeutic Massage? Therapeutic Massage Therapy is a style of massage therapy which focuses on getting results vs. just relaxing. Using this term indicates that the purpose of the massage is to achieve a structural change or therapeutic benefit in the body. It is style of treatment where massage therapists mobilize your soft tissue (muscles, tendons, fascia, etc) …
Have you been to our location in Superior at the Sport Stable? Watch Matt Hudgens, L.Ac., LMT who is one of our amazing sports massage therapists and acupuncturists at our Superior location, explain how we can help you recover faster, perform better or recover from an injury with massage therapy or acupuncture. We’ve been partnering with Impact Sports Performance since …
A Seminar: Myofascial Release for your Ribs At Boulder Therapeutics, we encourage our therapists to take advanced trainings and seminars. We want to be as highly-skilled as possible so we can provide you with the highest level of care. Recently, some of our therapists attended a hands-on workshop with educator, Til Lichau. He demonstrated many myofascial release techniques for the …
Improve your posture As kids, our parents used to point out our poor posture. They would remind us of ways to improve posture, much to our dismay and embarrassment. We know that constant reminders of proper posture can get annoying, but we can never overstate how important it is to find good alignment. Even if you didn’t listen to your …
Tendonitis, Tendon Pain and Tendinopathy Tendons attach muscles to bone. They are all over the body but there are a few tendons, such as the neck, elbows, biceps, wrists and achilles, which can have a condition called tendonitis (also called tendinitis) or tendinopathy. When left untreated, these areas can progress into calcific tendonitis, a condition that is usually considered irreversible …
Olympic Athletes: Injury Recovery and Prevention Tyler Nicholson’s Story and Miraculous Recovery At the 2017 Aspen X games, 21 year old Canadian Pro Snowboarder, Tyler Nicholson took Silver in Slopestyle. 3 months later, in Italy, he tore his ACL in his knee. He miraculously returned to competition only 8 months later and was nominated to represent Canada in the 2018 …
