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With Roxy on a wedding sabbatical, we’ve been so lucky to have kinesiology services provided by Robyn in the interim. Sh...
12/09/2025

With Roxy on a wedding sabbatical, we’ve been so lucky to have kinesiology services provided by Robyn in the interim. She’s been such a pleasure to work with and fit in seamlessly with the staff and clients alike.

Jordyn’s first mat Pilates class starting right now with some extra special guests 💜
12/06/2025

Jordyn’s first mat Pilates class starting right now with some extra special guests 💜

Pilates equipment makes a return to the gym! Pilates is just one lens for exploring mobility — strength and control of o...
11/29/2025

Pilates equipment makes a return to the gym! Pilates is just one lens for exploring mobility — strength and control of our movement workspace. Systems and methods can be helpful guides, but our bodies aren’t tidy frameworks. They’re biological, adaptable, and sometimes contradictory.

There’s no single “right” way to train. What matters is expanding your capacity across a wide range of challenges, in ways that support the season you’re in.

We’re excited to be bringing back mat classes and individual sessions in the coming months, so stay tuned!

Honestly one of the things that makes me the happiest is seeing our team hanging out together in their free time. Someti...
11/20/2025

Honestly one of the things that makes me the happiest is seeing our team hanging out together in their free time. Sometimes they take “hanging” quite literally 🤷‍♂️

I’ve been sitting with this for a few years, chatting with colleagues and patients about a chronic pain scenario I see w...
11/16/2025

I’ve been sitting with this for a few years, chatting with colleagues and patients about a chronic pain scenario I see with surprising frequency that deserves more attention. Here’s the profile:

You come to the clinic grasping at another straw in your struggle with chronic joint and muscle pain. You don’t quite feel at home in your body — sometimes it feels like you’re disconnected from it. Your joints ache, click, and sometimes feel like they might slip out of place.

You’ve always known you were double jointed. Yet despite having the flexibility to put your palms on the floor, your back has always hurt; even as a kid you struggled with what everyone called “growing pains.”

Now that you’re older, your body tires easily, and even gentle exercise can leave you sore for days. And then there are the other symptoms that make everything harder: migraines that knock you flat, dizzy spells when you sit up too fast, and chronic fatigue that doesn’t seem to make sense.

You feel weighed down by labels like fibromyalgia, POTS, and “degenerative disc disease.” Maybe as an adult you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD or anxiety, making sense of years of restlessness or overwhelm, but (much like your TMJ problems and overcrowding) it hasn’t felt connected to a bigger picture.

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I don’t know what it feels like to live with hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS) or Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD), but I have heard these stories again and again.

This isn’t a checklist or diagnostic tool. Some symptoms are well documented in hEDS/HSD, others are still under study, and the role of a physician is critical. It’s a clinical diagnosis without conclusive lab tests — but reframing these seemingly unrelated problems as part of a systemic experience can be deeply meaningful.

If this hits home, I’m sorry it’s been so hard to feel validated. You are not alone. More clinicians are recognizing the nuance and complexity of it; let your story be heard, and assemble a healthcare alliance to help navigate this relatively unseen condition.

Great day out with a friend I haven’t seen in too long!
11/15/2025

Great day out with a friend I haven’t seen in too long!

Ok fine, I’ll also post a photo of the tonight 😝. More reds than usual! 🔥
11/12/2025

Ok fine, I’ll also post a photo of the tonight 😝. More reds than usual! 🔥

11/07/2025

Very proud of Jordyn as she’s embarked on Classical Pilates training! We’re looking forward to soon offering mat classes and bringing in more equipment options to challenge your movement system.

11/04/2025

Recently, I wrote about how treating local muscle tissue with Active Release Techniques (ART) probably doesn’t “break down adhesions,” but still works through neurophysiological mechanisms.

When it comes to nerves, though, the story’s a bit different. It’s well established that our soft tissues need to glide relative to each other — and that restrictions at these interfaces can affect how nerves move and signal.

When I combined Shacklock’s neurodynamics training with ART’s nerve course, I found I could more accurately identify and treat problems involving nerve movement. ART adds manual directional tension designed to help the nerve slide relative to the surrounding connective tissue — an approach that fits neatly within neurodynamic principles.

One thing we often forget:
Nerves have nerves.

That means a nerve itself can become sensitive or painful (neurogenic pain) even without numbness or weakness. More severe neuropathic pain — from actual compression or inflammation — usually needs a different strategy: offloading, graded movement, sometimes laser therapy, and plenty of reassurance.

The key is in diagnosis — understanding which mechanism is at play, and matching the approach to the person in front of you.

In the video, I demonstrate an example of how what this might look like in the treatment room.

—Davin

Have a fun and safe Halloween! 🎃
10/31/2025

Have a fun and safe Halloween! 🎃

Passive modalities can be useful tools to stimulate some physiological change or modify symptoms, and should generally b...
10/31/2025

Passive modalities can be useful tools to stimulate some physiological change or modify symptoms, and should generally be used in conjunction active recovery. Shockwave is no exception; a good loading program should follow the use of this therapy.

10/26/2025

I remember several years ago at public skating, another dad saw my daughter struggling with her first steps and handed me his plastic push-aid. “‘My son doesn’t need it anymore; it’s yours now.” Well here we are at public skating again a few years later. You never know how you get to be part of someone’s story.

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