You have a nervous system. This seems obvious but because most medical care is built on the science of one or two centuries ago, many interventions don’t take it into account and therefore aren’t nearly as effective as they could be.
At Bluebird Manual Therapy we focus on helping you leverage your nervous system to help your body heal. Whether you’re experiencing chronic pain, or other chronic illness like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or even long COVID, we’re here to help you get well. If you have a less serious or less chronic problem, we can still help you fully recover more quickly than typical conventional interventions because we take advantage of the nervous system you’ve got.
It all started with one of my staff member’s snarky comments about helping patients with nervous systems. As a physical therapist trained in manual therapy, I realized over the years that we almost never approach the body as anything other than mechanical, despite the amazing communication systems it contains.
That comment, uttered more than 20 years ago pried open a little piece of curiosity in my mind. It made me open to the possibility that we could influence the body in ways that were more profound than simply changing the mechanics of how someone or something moves. What I discovered is that as a manual therapist, I had an opportunity to affect my patients in profound ways (Far beyond anything I ever expected when I began expanding my practice) and doing what I could to use my hands to help resolve their symptoms.
Over the past 20 years, developments in technology have allowed us to understand much more of not just the anatomy of the nervous system, but also how it functions to create our experience. This understanding has led to manual therapy techniques that can support people with nervous systems to rapidly recover from a variety of chronic issues as varied as pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and long COVID.
It turns out that our nervous system really wants to support us in success in our lives and that it can be influenced by manual therapy when it becomes dysregulated.
That’s the foundation of Bluebird Manual Therapy. Our purpose is to optimize your nervous system to support your healing, usually using a group of specialized interventions that we call Neurofascial Manual Therapy.