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12/07/2025

Follow Ryan’s (my hubby) new page Puhlmann supply company to stay up to date on upcoming “learn to carve” classes for beginners of all ages.

Exciting things are coming!
Here’s just a small peek at a few of the over 200+ items currently being organized and finalized for launch — including new ceramic and diamond burrs, woodcarving blanks, micro-motor kits, and more.

Whether you’re a beginner carver, seasoned artisan, or creative hobbyist, there’s something here to help you carve, burn, build, and paint with confidence.

Your continued patience and support mean the world as I get everything ready for release. Stay tuned — the full inventory will be available soon through Puhlmann Supply Company!

Reach out to: puhlent@gmail.com
587-590-8161

12/07/2025

What a great visual. You can rehydrate your fascia by having a RAPID-NFR session, moving your body, and drinking water.

Everyone is starting to realize how important fascia is when it comes to training the body, but most people still underestimate how deeply it influences movement.

Hydrated fascia behaves very differently, down to the cellular level. Not only does it participate in bioelectric signaling, it also plays a major role in how much range of motion your body can access during exercise. When this tissue is loaded correctly, it becomes elastic and responsive. Your muscles coordinate better, your posture improves, and energy becomes more stable because your body isn’t fighting itself to move.

When this tissue loses its elasticity and structural organization, your body begins moving in ways that increase tension, stiffness, and joint stress in the wrong areas. This is when people start experiencing the movement degradation that eventually leads to pain. Hydration in the body isn’t just about drinking more water. It depends on restoring the mechanical conditions that allow fluid to move through your tissue with minimal friction.

The visual on the left is exactly what we help you overcome through our training. This is what you see in the transformations we help people achieve, where their bodies begin to look more viscoelastic and full.

If you want to improve your movement, you not only need to strengthen the muscles that are weak, you also need to build the mechanics that distribute tension efficiently throughout your fascial system. The quality of your movement determines the quality of your tissue.

12/05/2025

Are MRI Findings Really the Cause of Back Pain? Maybe… but often it’s inflammation.

A recent study reported that the more cumulative findings you have on MRI, the more likely you are to experience back pain.
Useful information — but here’s our take:

The study looked at associations, and association does not equal causation.

MRI shows structure, not symptoms. We see disc bulges, degeneration, and “changes” in plenty of people who have zero pain. So a structural finding alone rarely tells us why someone hurts.

What often matters more?

👉 Inflammation.
Inflammatory activity—macrophages, cytokines, congestion, and nerve sensitivity—can turn a totally harmless MRI finding into a painful one. Pain tends to correlate more with inflammation and tissue sensitivity than with how dramatic the MRI looks.

Bottom line:
An MRI can tell you what something looks like.
Pain tells you what something feels like.
And the gap between those two is usually filled by inflammation—not the image.

12/03/2025

Just keep moving!

12/03/2025

Just finished two powerful days of Rapid Core recertification. Every time I revisit this training, I uncover something new.
Not because the course has changed — but because I have.

This time, I showed up with deeper awareness, and a whole new level of understanding. It’s incredible to reflect on how much growth has unfolded since that first training years ago. (2019)

What once felt new and a little overwhelming now feels integrated, and clear.
Grateful for the opportunity to review this work.

12/01/2025

THIS. IS. RAPID!!

Great work and share by RAPID Specialist Brenna Fox.

“I wanted to share a cool experience I had in a treatment today!

Client (31 F) was in a car accident at 17 years old. She got thrown around quite a bit and hit the back and left side of her head multiple times. She's done tons of physical therapy to get as well as she is, but she still has constant pain and her left side "seizes up" 2-3 times per year. She also says talking and chewing are super fatiguing to the point that she's battling an eating disorder. She mentioned this in passing and that she's going to a mental health therapist to work through it because a doctor after her car accident told her it was permanent nerve damage and she was going to have to live with it. I asked if I could feel around in her neck and jaw and found the left side of her neck lacking completely in tone. I asked her if she could flex the muscle and she could not (before picture).

I addressed the neck and shoulder pain that she came in for and then spent the last 5 minutes or so on the platysma, SCM, sternocostal joints, hyoid, and longus colli on both sides. Cue the after picture and big fat tears because she could, in her words, "swallow normally" for the first time since she was 17. Shared with her permission.

Have I mentioned how much I love Rapid NeuroFascial Reset lately? Pretty cool for 40 minutes ✨”

11/23/2025

Spinal curvature improving! ❤️ Shoulders leveling out. Pelvis more balanced. Standing more upright and centered. Lots of relief in multiple symptoms! Hair thicker as an unexpected bonus.

11/22/2025

A study on professional baseball pitchers showed that 40% of them had either partial or full thickness rotator cuff tears yet had no pain while playing and remained pain-free even five years after the study. Translation: do not panic if your ultrasound or MRI shows a rotator cuff tear. It is not necessarily associated with the shoulder pain.

11/22/2025

Fun fact: Your fascia doesn’t stretch during treatment. 🙌

It’s your nervous system relaxing, that’s why it feels softer after!

11/19/2025

Did you know that lumbar disc degeneration is present in 90% of people over 50 to 55? Don’t panic if your MRI shows disc degeneration. It’s normal. And it doesn’t mean you have to have pain.