Lisa Townsend

Considering Knee Surgery?

May 21, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

The manual therapy treatment I offer coupled with Physical Therapy is a superior treatment to Physical Therapy alone. Also, P.T. manual therapy is not the same as Naprapathic Manual Therapy. We use different techniques. Always seriously consider why or why not you should undergo knee surgery. #Orthopedics #Surgeryhttps://t.co/wN48qbsNlo — Dr. Gil Tepper (@gilteppermd) May 21, 2018

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, EXERCISE, Inflammation, knee surgery, manual therapy, manual therapy procedure, PT physical therapy, stretching • Tags: DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, knee surgery, manual therapy, PT physical therapy

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What is Deep Tissue/Medical Massage Therapy?

May 4, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

The following information is provided to help you understand the therapy and procedures that I perform. It is my protocol to work in consultation with my patients attending physician and I am trained to do so, including sending physician reports every six treatments if you wish. The State required hours of training for a massage therapist are five-hundred. I have 2400 hours of training. This is medical massage/healthcare. I am a 2003 graduate of Blue Heron Academy in Grand Rapids, […]

Categories: BIOLOGY, blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Inflammation, manual therapy, manual therapy procedure, Naprapathy, physician reports, PT physical therapy, qi or chi, SCIENCE, soft tissue

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The Importance of #Exercise and #Stretching (Relaxing the muscle really)

May 3, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

You spend many hours a day tying your muscles into cramped and uncomfortable positions. At work, you are sitting at a computer for eight hours or more. Many people spend a lot of time in their cars which is hard on the low back, and throughout the day you are performing the numerous activities of an active modern life. Think about all of these thousands of hours contracting and tightening your muscles. When do you relax and stretch them? When […]

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, EXERCISE, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Inflammation, manual therapy, relaxation, soft tissue, stretching

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What I’ve Learned Treating Functional Scoliosis

March 23, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Your toned muscle holds all of your bones in proper alignment. Your muscles cannot be toned if they are injured, or contracted (tight). I’ve known that for twenty years. There is no amount of force that will align your bones without pain if your muscles are very tight/contracted. In addition, it makes no difference if your bones are aligned. What matters is that your TISSUE is aligned and strong. When that happens, your bones will follow, they’ll align and be […]

Categories: BIOLOGY, bones, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, functional scoliosis, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Inflammation, manual therapy, manual therapy procedure, Naprapathy, SCIENCE, soft tissue, spine

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Functional Scoliosis

March 8, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

I was working with two clients concurrently who had functional scoliosis. One is seeing a chiropractor after I loosened all the soft tissue adhesions and the other one is seeing a Physical Therapist. After I worked on them, you could visually see how different their backs looked. They looked better and felt better because the tissue was aligned. But both of their spines moved markedly after I worked on releasing the rock hard tissue by degrees; more curvature. Now, why […]

Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, functional scoliosis, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Inflammation, manual therapy, Naprapathy, PT physical therapy, soft tissue, spine

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Opioid Profit

February 13, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

Did ya see the news last night? The drug company that makes oxycontin, which IS addictive, made a profit of two billion dollars last year. But they’re going to correct their ways now that the American public’s health is decimated because they don’t have a f….. clue about how healing really works. The mind folks. Your blood. Your thought and feeling habits. Your breath. That’s where healing lies. The fact is, YOUR BLOOD contains more powerful healing chemicals and energies than […]

Categories: BELIEF, BIOLOGY, blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, DRUGS, energy, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, manual therapy, opioids, oxycontin, PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, pharmaceuticals, placebo effect, qi or chi, REIKI, SCIENCE, scientific method

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What about the flu shot? I use Chinese herbs to build immunity instead

February 8, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

FB friends and patients, please put your thinking caps on here and read this article. Holistic practitioners have been trying to educate the public for years about this issue but we’re in competition for your attention from the Feds, big media, and big Pharma. They all have big bucks to make and we here on the front lines are just trying to make a living by doing the right thing and helping people trust their body. Look at the facts. […]

Categories: aromatherapy, CHINESE MEDICINE, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, IMMUNE SUPPORT, Influenza, Sun Ten Herbs, vaccinations • Tags: chinese herbal medicine, flu shot, IMMUNE SUPPORT, vaccinations

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The Biology of Belief

February 3, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

I read Bruce Lipton’s great book several years ago and it knocked me out back then. Bruce has a Ph.D. in Cell Biology and has done cutting-edge work in understanding how the cell membranes actually function. The scientific emphasis with regard to cells has always been the DNA and RNA which are nucleic acids found in the nucleus only of all of our cells. But Bruce has found that the nucleus of our cells does not set the agenda for […]

Categories: AUTHORS, BELIEF, BIOLOGY, BOOKS, Bruce Lipton, energy, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, qi or chi, SCIENCE

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The Well-Documented Placebo Effect

January 27, 2018 by Lisa Townsend

I’m enjoying reading “The Science Delusion” by noted author and Ph.D. scientist Rupert Sheldrake. The title of his book can be misleading. He works in the field of science and supports REAL scientific rigor. This book points out what is rational scientific rigor and what is not! I recommend it. He says, “In several clinical trials, Prozac was no better than the placebo…The drug company, Eli Lilly, did not publish the results of unsuccessful trials which were revealed only because an independently […]

Categories: AUTHORS, BELIEF, DRUGS, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY, pharmaceuticals, placebo effect, prozac, psychoneuroimmunology, Rupert Sheldrake, scientific method • Tags: clinical trials, DRUGS, HEALTH, pharmaceuticals, placebo effect, prozac, scientific method

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Deep Tissue Therapy, Reiki, Infrared Healing Lamp, & Reiki Classes, and Attunements to Master Level

Author Archives: Lisa Townsend

Considering Knee Surgery?

What is Deep Tissue/Medical Massage Therapy?

The Importance of #Exercise and #Stretching (Relaxing the muscle really)

What I’ve Learned Treating Functional Scoliosis

Functional Scoliosis

Opioid Profit

What about the flu shot? I use Chinese herbs to build immunity instead

The Biology of Belief

The Well-Documented Placebo Effect