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.

Fix Up The Issues in Your Tissues

Many people find Paula when other forms of help have failed.
Most return because they want the no-nonsense best.
​All know that their time and money will not be wasted.

At Paula's Body Shop

The Science of Massage

Mechanotransduction

​Manual therapies like massage benefit 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

Palpation is a listening skill and the necessary precursor to mechanotransduction.
Without palpation, we glide over issues instead of attending to them.
Without deep palpation we mistake symptoms for root causes. Eg. "Knots" are a symptom of a joint issue. Correct the joint issue and the knot melts by itself.

Paula's Massage Therapy

Paula specializes in connective-tissue-focused, palpation-based bodywork to identify and resolve issues in the tissues, from skin to bone, unlike any other modality, and at a speed that often seems miraculous, but is just ... science.

Your Remarkable Connective Tissue​!

Connective Tissue Naming

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 easier, but is also too easily confused with unrelated fascism, so this site will stick with connective tissue as the preferred name.

Research

Research is proving what connective tissue 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, Connective tissue 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 connective tissue dissection. What was accomplished with FR:EIA astounds and humbles me. - Paula

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.