Therapy by Alice 
New protocols for injuries
Posted on March 8, 2025 Leave a Comment
https://www.physio-network.com/blog/ice-for-acute-injury/?
I’m always telling people to ice their sore muscles. While this article is about acute injury, I thought it was interesting enough to repost. Check out the link to read the whole article.
How is failure actually a success
Posted on March 7, 2025 Leave a Comment
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
I would say that looking back and finding bad choices I have made has actually brought me to the place I am and the life I am living. I look back and think of the things I wanted to do for careers, where I wanted to live etc, that would have led me another place and I would not be enjoying my husband or my horses like I am today. Every choice has the opportunity for success or failure but the failure doesn’t last forever.
Erik Dalton tipsy
Posted on March 5, 2025 Leave a Comment
https://www.facebook.com/groups/erikdalton/permalink/3830459473872521/?
Low Back Z-Joint Pain: Addressing Facet Joint Syndrome
In this week’s Technique Tuesday newsletter, blog post, and demonstration video we discuss low back pain related to the mechanical wear and tear of the zygapophyseal joints (commonly called facet joints).
An injury, repetitive stress, obesity, weak posture, and aging articular cartilage may change the way Z-joints align and glide on one another leading to an inflammatory response. The brain signals “danger” triggering protective guarding.
In acute cases, Z-joint symptoms localize to one side of the back adjacent to the spine. In chronic cases, diffuse pain spreads into the buttocks, groin, or down the limb.
Learn the Z-Joint Pain Provocation Test, the Sphinx Hyperextension Test, and Kemp’s Test, then practice two techniques to address Z-joint pain.
Massage therapists, bodyworkers, physical therapists and manual therapists read the blog and watch the demonstration video to learn the Z-Joint Pain Provocation Test, the Sphinx Hyperextension Test, and Kemp’s Test. Then, practice two techniques to address Z-joint pain. When you sign up for the Technique Tuesday newsletter you get a treasure trove of MAT resources without subscription fees. Visit blog.erikdalton.com.
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Who are my favorite people to be around?
Posted on February 20, 2025 1 Comment
What if my favorite people to be around are actually animals? What does that say about me? I’m not sure that’s entirely true because I like people a lot, but I enjoy being around my animals. Even today, when the weather was frigid, I did not truly mind going outside to break up ice and feed everybody their food. Here, we have 14 horses, 12 pigs, five dogs, and five cats. Nine of the pigs are tiny babies who will be weaned in about four weeks and sold for either breeding or consumption. I have 5 of those pigs sold, But I still have them. Four more to sell. If anyone is interested, please contact me 🙂
Of course, my favorite person is my husband. He goes along with all of my crazy ideas and plans and loves the animals as much or more as I do. Beyond Michael, I enjoy so many people that I can’t even begin to list them lest I leave some 1 out. Honestly, It’s easier to think about who I don’t enjoy being around. Those are the people at Google who will not let my business page show up on the map for some reason. Google says that I have misrepresented my business, and I have appealed, and I’m waiting and waiting and waiting for them to decide I can be visible on the map. It is very inconvenient not to have Google presents.
Settling in
Posted on February 18, 2025 Leave a Comment
Adagio Massage and Wellness is opening it’s doors to membership for the wellness center.
Behind the curtain to the right is the restroom. There is a corridor, so anyone working out can use the restroom, even if I’m in a session. We have one more door to install and a hot water heater, but we are nearly 100% ready. If you sign up for a year paid in full, you will receive a free 20-minute massage. I can sign people up with cash, which is $10/mo or $12 using electronic payment such as Venmo. You can even sign up for a subscription using the scheduling app. https://pocketsuite.io/link/alice-perryman
My Dream Home
Posted on February 11, 2025 Leave a Comment
My dream home doesn’t come in any particular shape or size. It’s more about how well it’s organized. I had a Victorian house in Rockport, IN, in the ’90s, and it was pretty dilapidated. However, when I sold it after 2 years, the people who bought it did so much with it, and I always wished I could have lived in it that way. I sometimes dream about this house, and I’m looking through it and remembering living there.
I only paid $22,000 for this house in 1994. My house payments were $181/month. I sold it two years later for $27000. It’s not a bad return on my investment. I frequently wished I had stayed in the house, but I would never have been able to restore it to this beauty. My ex-husband, Shawn, didn’t like living in town.
Daily writing Prompt
Posted on February 10, 2025 Leave a Comment
I think the first thing I would do would be to call my Husband, Michael, to share the news. He is a wonderful man and would love to hear the news.
The Extraordinary World of Music and the Mind
Posted on December 16, 2023 Leave a Comment
It can remind you of the best days of your life. It can comfort you. It can even make those who remember little sing again.
Part I “Hey Jude”
In 2007, a young man named Colin Huggins began playing music on the streets of New York using a battered upright piano he’d bought on Craigslist.
He was a former accompanist for the American Ballet Theatre, but playing and singing pop songs outdoors had convinced him of the almost mystical power of music to soothe, delight and heal his fellow New Yorkers. He began to push the piano all over downtown, even managing to get it onto a subway platform at 14th Street.
There, in December 2008, he was caught on a blurry cellphone video, later posted to YouTube, playing the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” In the course of two minutes, the potentially dangerous netherworld of the New York City subway — the very definition of existential alienation, where eye contact is assiduously avoided — was transformed into a place of joy, camaraderie, connection.
At first, four or five college-aged kids began to sing along (“take a sad song and make it better”), and by the time Huggins hit the crescendo (“better, better, BETTER”), a group of middle-aged businessmen in long black coats on the opposite platform were singing too. With the irresistible coda (“nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah-nah-nah-naaaah”), everyone on both platforms — male and female, Black and white, young and old — was singing, clapping, smiling at one another. The transformation was miraculous.
read the rest of this article at
https://www.aarp.org/health/brain-health/info-2023/how-music-affects-the-brain.html
Music Therapy of the Rockies
Posted on May 25, 2023 Leave a Comment
I ran across this really neat business that works with veterans and other people with trauma. They offer continuing ed in working with PTSD. I’m hoping I will be able to take part in learning some new things very soon.
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