What is Kineci’s treatment approach and philosophy? 

• Our treatment approach is holistic, empowering, and individualized. We operate from a philosophy and understanding that YOUR body is designed to heal. We focus on manual therapy (hands-on bodywork) and exercises. This approach provides you with the most value tapping into our expertise. 
• Our human bodies have an amazing innate ability to repair, regenerate, and renew itself. It is constantly doing this every moment of life. At Kineci we believe in helping you understand how to help YOUR body do its magic, heal itself. 
• To do this we Empower you with tools to feed your body the instructions to heal through teaching you exercises. Healing is a participatory journey. YOU must be involved and proactive in your healing journey. Doing your Home Exercise Program consistently is how you give your body the instructions to heal. 
• We view people holistically, as a whole being Body-Mind-&-Spirit. You are not simply a hurt body part, but a struggling body part that is attached to a whole person with other body parts, a life, family, and responsibilities. These all matter. 
• We also believe YOU are unique. Every person comes with a unique set of concerns, goals, issues, and challenges. Each person has a unique life and experiences. These all matter. 
• So our approach is individualized. Your treatment and Home Exercise Program is tailored for you and your body’s specific needs. We do not provide cookie-cutter protocols, but customized programs.
  

What is craniosacral therapy? 

• Craniosacral therapy is a gentle hands-on manual therapy technique that taps into your body’s natural rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid. This approach connects directly with your nervous system to help it calm down and return to a better natural state of homeostasis. 
• Cerebrospinal fluid is produced in the brain and bathes your brain, spinal cord, and nerves. It has its own distinct rhythm as it flow from your brain (cranium) down the spinal canal (to your sacrum) and back up. It provides nutrients and feeds your nervous system along with carrying away metabolic waste. 
• Craniosacral therapy techniques help facilitate your body’s natural rhythm and flow. Different states of dysfunction and issues can hinder this rhythm and flow. 
• Craniosacral therapy helps relieve tension, stress, anxiety, and irritation in your nervous system. It is gentle and a light touch approach. It works on the cranium (skull) bones, sacrum, and all body parts. It is a very relaxing experience that often helps people finally get the rest and calmness they need for recovery.
  

What is Visceral Mobilization therapy? 

• Viscera refers to your internal organs. Visceral Mobilization (or Manipulation) are gentle hands-on manual therapy techniques which addresses restrictions in and around your organs. 
• Your body is a connected and integrated whole. All parts are connected to all other parts and influence each other directly. Your internal organs are all contained within and surrounded by different layers of fascia. The fascia also surrounds all muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and holds all your parts in place relative to all your other parts. 
• Through a lifetime of experiences, injuries, traumas, habits, and repeated movement patterns your fascia can become restricted in many different ways. Sometimes your internal organs develop restrictions, tightness, and limitations that can affect the rest of you. 
• Visceral Mobilization techniques feel and sense these restrictions and use gentle ways to mobilize and release these restrictions. This helps restore proper function and flow within your body. 
• For instance, your gut is the front side of your low back. It is common to find restrictions in the gut organs in people with low back issues. Fascial restrictions in the different layers of tissue can tether down and pull on your low back from the front side. Visceral Mobilization senses, feels, and addressed these types of restrictions.
  

What is Neural Mobilization therapy? 

• Neural Mobilization (or Manipulation) are gentle hands-on manual therapy techniques applied directly to your nerves. This approach helps your nerves glide and slide along their pathways to help them feel and function at their best. 
• Nerves, like all other tissues, can develop restrictions in how they move. Nerves do not like to be restricted or compressed. This causes pain, numbness, tingling, and a variety of symptoms, that sometimes, can be difficult to understand. 
• Nerves feed information (innervation) to your muscles, organs, and all your tissues. Restrictions can limit the innervation to the tissues. This creates pain and dysfunction. 
• In Neural Mobilization techniques we get our hands directly onto your nerves. Knowing where to find them, how they feel, and how to help them move better helps reduce pain and irritation. 

What is manual therapy? 

• Manual therapy refers to hands-on bodywork techniques. Manual therapy includes massage type techniques, but goes much deeper and beyond just a massage. 
• Our manual therapy at Kineci is much more specific, focused, and intentional that regular massages. It includes joint mobilizations, neural mobilizations, fascial release techniques, and active movement-engaged techniques. 
• PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) are manual therapy techniques we use to help recruit and activate muscles, provide enhanced stretching to body parts, and re-educate the neuromuscular connections. These are hands-on manual therapy techniques in which the client is actively engaged producing movements and not just passively receiving treatment. 
• FMR (Functional Manual Reaction) are manual therapy techniques we use during active movements. Rooted in how your body Functions, we add our hands to facilitate, encourage, and add loads to your movements. These techniques work with your body as you are actively moving to enhance its ability to Function properly. 

How is our movement training  and exercise different? 

• Our approach to movement training is rooted in the principles of true biomechanics of how the body is designed. 
• Our bodies move in 3 planes of motion: forward and back (Sagittal Plane), side to side (Frontal Plane), and in rotation (Transverse Plane). All movements are a combination of these 3 directions. All too often many movement approaches forget to address all 3 planes. 
• Embedded in all your tissues are nerve endings called Proprioceptors. These are the switches that turn on the muscles. Different Proprioceptors respond to movement in the different directions. If you only move in one direction you miss 2/3 of what is available. You miss tapping into the full potential of your body’s abilities. 
• At Kineci we put a huge emphasis on teaching movement that appreciates, incorporates, and integrates all 3 planes of motion. In doing so, we tap into more depth of your body’s potential. 
• Most people feel our exercises make sense. They can feel and sense how our exercises apply to real world Function. The way your body is designed to move. Integrated with the whole body playing along together. Not isolated, non-functional exercises that too often overload struggling weak tissues. 
• We get a lot of comments that our brand of exercises and movement training is fun, energizing, and people want to do them because it makes them feel so good. We get much better Home Exercise Program compliance than many other traditional exercise approaches.