Integrated training, holstic prevention and rehabilitation; youths to adults, recreational, preprofessional to professional.
Dancers and athletes need specialized care and training. A technical foundation assures skill and expression; the broader that foundation, the greater the range of skills and expression.Private sessions with Nancy enables each person to expand and refine their technical foundation in a supportive environment, discovering their true potential in their art or sport. Through an interdisciplinary, individualized training, the athlete or dancer can move beyond limitations and better meet the demands of their activities enhancing proficiency, longevity, injury prevention & rehabilitation, success and enjoyment in their endeavors.
Integrated Training
Your program begins with a complete whole body manual therapy evaluation and treatment and selectively applies movement training for your needs. Ensuring the body’s structural balance enables the body to move freely and efficiently, as well as prevent and heal the causes of pain, spasm, inflammation, overuse, misuse or underutilization. •identify and correct underlying structural patterns and habit patterns that hinder progress and cause pain and injury.•reduce risk of potential injury by anticipating potential problems for that which the individual is predisposed •decrease accumulated stresses •increase mobility and stability
For the dancer, Nancy offers careful guidance that understands the special needs of dance training. Working closely with you, she imparts a clear process of how each person can move foward and meet the demands of any dance form, improve technical clarity and personal expresssion. You learn how to connect to your bodys deepest sources of support and mobility resulting in articulation with natural elongation, dynamic alignment, internal strength that allows fluid motion, and total body/movement integration & organization through all planes of motion.
Competetive and recreational athletes of all ages are rewarded with a superb and varied cross training that improves structural balance, reinforces functional movement, skill technique and overall performance with a greater degree of core strength, multiplanar stability & increased range of motion, joint articulation, awareness & coordination, muscular balance, flexibility and regeneration which further enhances coordination, timing, endurance, agility, and power to all sport activities.
Integrated Rehabilitation of Dance/Sport Pain and Injuries
These specialized programs for the injured dancer or athlete offer a progressive transition from the acute stages of injury to return to activites. The treatment of complex recurrent injuries or problems that do not resolve are especially suited to a whole body manual approach. You will progress from basic rehab and corrective therapy to active training program.•Address your needs as a whole person as opposed to treating only the injury •Decrease time lost due to the injury• Correct and significantly improve movement technique •Implement long-term solutions to prevent future injuries.
Common sport/dance problems that can benefit
•Joint problems •Persistent hamstring or calf strains • Low back pain •Stiffness, lack of flexibility •Injuries that do not go away • Recurring achilles problems •Lumbo-pelvic-femoral joint mechanics •Persistant musculoskeletal problems of upper and lower body (foot, ankle, knee,back, hip , shoulder, neck strains & sprains) •Sciatica •Cervical-cranial mandibular inbalance •Postural problems •Repetetive motion injuries & stress •Fatigue and stress •Faulty movement habits •Structural instability( shoulders, hips, ankles, knees) •Connective tissue and fascial strain patterns •Overuse syndromes •Regeneration from stress
