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FAQ

How may I help you?

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I help your body heal the pain, inflammation, restrictions, and traumas that get in the way of living your best life.

If I can feel it, I can usually help heal it. Palpation is the key.

So is being free to innovate solutions that work fast and last.

So, please be open to something new or different. I promise to give you my my best, from first appointment to last.

Whatever the issues in your tissues
Fix them up at the source
As quickly as possible
For the longest relief possible
Through innovative manual therapies
At Paula's Body Shop

The Science of Massage

​Massage benefits health through mechanotransduction, which is when a physical stimulus in the form of pressure, stretch, shear, and micro vibrations - in the correct nuanced manner and range - trigger a regulatory, biochemical change.

Palpation is the necessary precursor to mechanotransduction. Without palpation, we glide over issues in the connective tissue instead of attending to them until they are gone or reduced. Those "issues" are the many forms of phlegm, from excess to inflamed to sticky to hardened that are found in the fascia, from superficial to deep. Those muscle knots? They are symptoms of issues in the connective tissue.

​Palpation is a listening skill, and Paula listens and responds, expertly.

Your Remarkable Functional Fascia​!

Fascia by Any Other Name...

Researchers are in the process of formalizing a definition for this ubiquitous, intelligent, global facilitating tissue such that even the name has not yet been decided upon. Fascia is short and quick, so until science is ready, fascia is the term that will be used most often on this site for all of the body's connective tissue.

Research

Research is proving what fascia therapists found out for themselves: This water-loving, organ-like, facilitative, system holds the secrets to the good health of everything connected to it: your vascular and nervous systems, muscles, bone structure, organs, and even protective fat.
Besides a healthy diet and lifestyle, fascia focused bodywork is one of the best ways to get and keep your connective tissue healthy. 

Meet FR:EIA (fray-ah)

​I've spent many hours in the cadaver lab assisting with fascial dissection. What was accomplished with FR:EIA astounds and humbles me.

FR:EIA is beautifully, respectfully displayed, and just the tip of the knowledge iceberg that awaits future clinicians and researchers. Let us gain new respect for ourselves and each other, through her.