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Integrated Modalities Bodywork (IMB) is a Bodyworking technique that its founder, George Davis, has developed over the past 20 years. With its focus on holistic pain management, IMB combines Western manual modalities with aspects of Traditional Chinese...

George Davis, principle massage therapist at The Pain Relief Center asks Kevin Schoonmaker, LMT, and Gua Sha Practitioner, about a Traditional Chinese Medicine modality he uses to help clients in pain feel more comfortable.   George Davis So Gua Sha...

I’m often asked, “What is Traditional Chinese Medicine?” Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has deep historical roots with evidence of its curative properties that date back 4000+ years! It’s a process of healing the body using 100% natural and holistic...

When you’re dealing with myofascial pain, it’s reasonable to expect that your focus is on the issues you can feel – the pain in your neck or shoulders, the inflammation in your knee, the stiffness in your back, etc, etc, etc.But, as Bodyworkers who believe...

Traditional Chinese Medicine, TCM, is a coherent system of thoughts and practices that has been developed over the course of many millennia and is the culmination of a continuous process of combining critical thinking, philosophy, logic, sensibility, and...

In the blog entitled What’s The Deal With Pain? I wrote a simplified explanation for the causes of pain – visceral, structural, and myofascial – that is completely Western in scope. But sometimes coming from a different perspective can get the point across...

If you watched the Summer Olympics when Michael Phelps took all those swimming gold medals, you probably saw the round bruise-like spots on his back and shoulders. Those marks were the by-products of cupping, a practice that’s been around for...

When people think of painful “knots” in their muscles, most often those knots are actually trigger points. Trigger points are focused areas of hyperirritability always located in a taut muscle band. When there are just a few, the person is generally just...

As you’ve learned in our blog "What's The Deal With Pain?” there are three general sources of pain; visceral, structural, and myofascial. Dealing with either visceral or structural pain is out the scope of practice for Bodyworker and is best treated by a...

It’s really common for new bodywork clients coming into The Pain Relief Center to tell us “Nobody’s ever worker on me like that,” or “I’ve never had a massage like that.” We generally just smile (we’ve heard it before) and inform them that what we do isn’t...