Resonate Massage Therapy

02/22/2026

Sometimes I just want to get on my own table! 😂 Seriously, if someone did the following things to help me find and treat the underlying cause of my issues, I would be stoked!

🎯 spend the time to look at my symptoms and history with scientific and clinical reasoning

🎯 do structural, postural, and range of motion assessment to look for the culprits

🎯 show me self-care techniques for trigger points causing my pain, numbness, weakness, or restricted movement

🎯 hook me up to multiple FSM & PEMF devices which are customized specifically for ME that relax all my muscles, relax & reboot my nervous system, & get my vagus nerve to do its job

🎯 melt adhesions & scar tissue sticking my nerves, fascia, and other tissues together with FSM & gentle mobilization

🎯 help me feel, find, and use my deep stabilizer muscles so my mover muscles can relax & do their jobs

🎯 do a variety of active & passive trigger point release techniques to release the tight spots the FSM and stabilizer activation didn’t address

🎯 oh, and then throw on some red light therapy, because who doesn’t love that?!

This is trigger point therapy with me-and it’s sooooooooo good! ❤️

By appointment only. Please call/ text to schedule a session or a free 15 minute phone consult. 📞

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02/16/2026

Restorative sleep is #1 when it comes to healing anything & good sleep posture is an important part! 💤🛌

Sleeping with a neutral spine allows your muscles & brain to relax. 💪🧠😴

When you sleep with your spine rotated or twisted:
🔺some muscles are overstretched for a long period, putting tension on your joints, while other muscles are chronically contracted
🔺 your brain tells your muscles, fascia, & ligaments to tighten to protect your misaligned spine
🔺 and all of these things can cause chronic muscle tension & stiffness, trigger points, and reduced range of motion. 😫

‘Neutral’ means aligning your head, neck, shoulders, & hips so that you’re not twisting or bending. Kind of like the good standing posture you’ve been taught all your life, only laying down.⚖️

Make sure you have a good mattress that supports a neutral spine. And a supportive pillow that is not too high, not too low. 🛏️

Back sleeping: putting a pillow under your knees takes the pressure off of your hips and low back. (I like to put a pillow at the foot of my bed to rest my feet on so the covers don’t pull down on them. It can help with calf cramps and neuropathy. 😉)

Side sleeping: shoulders stacked, hips stacked, top upper arm rests on ribs, lower arm out in front of you (not bent up under pillow) and a pillow between knees, lower leg AND feet.

Try that last part with and without the pillow and notice the difference in how relaxed your hips are. 🫵🏼

Stomach sleeping: call or text to book a session for the chronic neck pain or headaches you have now or will have if you sleep with your neck twisted every night! 🤕

Partners, pets, & kids in the bed can perpetuate poor sleep posture so see if you can enlist their help. Let me know what works for a persnickety cat! 😹

Sleep posture could be one of the reasons you have pain, numbness, weakness, restricted mobility or other symptoms of trigger points. 🎯

Trigger point therapy is an outcome-based process that works to find & treat the underlying cause of these symptoms. 💪

02/09/2026

Your brain tells your neck muscles to tighten to protect your C-spine or other areas of your head after a head trauma. 🧠

Trigger points and tight muscles in your neck can cause headaches, migraines, dizziness, vision problems, and other symptoms. 🤕

If you’ve been in to see me, you know I always treat the neck and test for vestibular injury, even if your main complaint is somewhere else.

This is because 50% of proprioceptors in your body are located in your C-spine. These sensory receptors manage movement, balance, & coordination of your whole body. So if your ankle is wonky it just might have something to do with your C-spine!

Myofascial trigger point therapy, FSM, and eye movement retraining techniques have helped my clients resolve chronic issues related to head and neck injuries. 🎯

Call or text if you would like more information, I offer free phone consults. 📞

🧠 THE CERVICAL SPINE: The Overlooked Key in Concussion, Dizziness, Headaches & Post-Trauma Recovery

Why the Neck Matters FAR More Than Most People Realize — and How We Address It at The Functional Neurology Center

When people think of concussion or head injuries, they think brain.
But one of the most important—and most commonly missed—pieces of the entire puzzle is the upper cervical spine (C0–C3).

A major review in the Journal of Athletic Training highlighted something foundational:

👉 Concussion and cervical injuries share almost IDENTICAL symptoms
👉 You cannot separate the neck from the brain when evaluating dizziness, headaches, balance issues, or visual problems
👉 Cervical dysfunction can CAUSE or EXACERBATE concussion-like symptoms

This explains why so many individuals struggle for months or years with:

✔ Persistent dizziness
✔ Head pressure or headaches
✔ Blurry vision
✔ Neck pain & stiffness
✔ Cognitive fog
✔ Poor balance
✔ Motion sensitivity
✔ Fatigue
✔ Difficulty reading, scrolling, or turning the head
✔ “I don’t feel like myself”

Many of these are not only brain-based — they’re the result of disrupted cervical afferents feeding faulty information into the brainstem, cerebellum, and vestibular system.

And THAT is where specialized neurological rehab makes all the difference.

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🧩 HOW THE NECK TALKS TO THE BRAIN

The upper cervical spine contains a dense network of muscle spindles, joint receptors, and mechanoreceptors that continuously send sensory information to:
• The brainstem
• The cerebellum
• The vestibular nuclei
• The thalamus
• The somatosensory cortex

This information is ESSENTIAL for:

🔹 Eye movements (saccades, pursuits, VOR)
🔹 Posture & balance
🔹 Gaze stabilization
🔹 Head-body coordination
🔹 Spatial awareness
🔹 Neck and facial pain modulation (through trigeminal interactions)

When these cervical signals become abnormal—after whiplash, concussion, falls, sports injuries, or prolonged strain—the brain receives conflicting sensory information.

This mismatch between visual, vestibular, and cervical inputs can produce:

⚠️ Dizziness
⚠️ Visual motion sensitivity
⚠️ Brain fog
⚠️ Anxiety-like symptoms
⚠️ Neck-based headaches (cervicogenic)
⚠️ Postural instability
⚠️ Difficulty with reading or screens

This is NOT “in your head.”
It’s a neurophysiological problem with real, measurable pathways.

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🔬 WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS

The Cervical Injury Assessments for Concussion Evaluation review clearly notes:

🧩 Concussion symptoms alone are not enough to distinguish brain injury from cervical injury.
🧩 Patients with PCS (post-concussion syndrome) and neck pain improved significantly when cervical rehab was added.
🧩 Combined vestibular + cervical treatment increased return-to-play success by nearly 4x.
🧩 Cervical dysfunction contributes directly to dizziness, headaches, visual instability, and cognitive complaints.

And importantly:
Neck dysfunction can LOOK exactly like a concussion—even without direct head impact.

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💥 HOW WE ADDRESS THE CERVICAL-BRAIN CONNECTION AT THE FNC

We specialize in evaluating and treating the brain–neck–vestibular–ocular system as ONE integrated network.

Your program may include:

✔ Advanced Cervical Spine Neurological Assessment
• Cervical joint-position error testing
• Smooth pursuit neck torsion testing
• Cervical flexion-rotation testing
• Ocular-motor evaluation with head vs. body movement isolation
• Muscle spindle mapping & proprioceptive testing

These tests help determine whether symptoms are coming from the neck, the brain, or BOTH.

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✔ Precision Manual Therapy & Low-Force Cervical Techniques

We use safe, gentle, and highly specific methods to restore:
• Cervical afferent accuracy
• Joint motion
• Muscle spindle firing patterns
• Upper cervical stability

(Sometimes 1–2 degrees of movement can change everything.)

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✔ Visual–Vestibular–Cervical Integration Training

To resolve sensory mismatch, we reintegrate:
• Eye movements + neck movements
• Gaze stabilization
• VOR and cervico-ocular reflex (COR) coordination
• Balance & proprioceptive drills
• Spatial orientation training

This is where symptoms like dizziness, blurred vision, and motion sensitivity start improving FAST.

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✔ Neuromodulation & Brain-Based Rehabilitation

Depending on your case, we may add:
• LLLT/photobiomodulation over cervical & brainstem regions
• Neuromuscular re-education
• ARPwave current modulation
• Cervical proprioceptive laser tracking
• Autonomic nervous system retraining
• Cognitive integration drills

The goal is to normalize the information going FROM the neck TO the brain, and restore the brain’s interpretation of that signal.

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🌟 WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS APPROACH?

We routinely help patients with:
• Whiplash
• Sports concussion
• Car accidents
• Chronic headaches
• Post-concussion syndrome
• Dizziness with no clear cause
• Neck pain + eye strain
• “I feel off balance”
• Long-COVID dizziness with cervical involvement
• Screens and reading triggering symptoms

If you’ve been told “your scans are normal” but you still feel awful — this is EXACTLY the type of dysfunction traditional imaging cannot detect.

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💙 THERE IS HOPE

Your cervical spine is not “just your neck.”
It is one of the most powerful sensory organs influencing your:

🧠 Balance
🧠 Vision
🧠 Cognition
🧠 Pain
🧠 Autonomic function
🧠 Movement
🧠 Overall sense of safety and stability

At The Functional Neurology Center, we combine advanced diagnostics with individualized treatment to help patients finally understand WHY they feel the way they do—and what can be done to change it.

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📞 Ready to take the next step?

If you’re experiencing persistent dizziness, headaches, neck pain, or post-concussion symptoms, our team is here to help.

📧 info@theFNC.com
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📍 Minnetonka, MN

Cervical Injury Assessments for Concussion Evaluation: A Review
November 2016Journal of Athletic Training 51(12)
DOI:10.4085/1062-6050-51.12.15

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27835042/

02/02/2026

😂 Some clients get pretty excited having improved range of motion, or after discovering a tiny trigger point was causing their pain. But really it’s probably the FSM endorphins!

02/01/2026

What’s causing your pain, numbness, weakness, or restricted movement? Let’s take a look at your unique combination of symptoms + history and find out! 🔎

Trigger point therapy is an outcome-based PROCESS that works to find & treat the root cause of muscle, joint, & nerve pain or dysfunction. 🎯⚡️

A session with me includes any or all of the following depending on your specific symptoms/ treatment goals & is customized just for you:
🔹 evaluation & assessment
🔹 nervous system reset
🔹 vagus nerve reboot
🔹 melting adhesions & scar tissue
🔹 trigger point release techniques
🔹 neuromyofascial release
🔹 activate stabilizer muscles
🔹 massage techniques
🔹 microcurrent FSM ⚡️
🔹 PEMF technology
🔹 eye movement retraining
🔹 red light therapy
🔹 self-care education, learn how to find & treat your muscles at home!

Fix WHY, not just where!
📞 Call/text to set up a free phone consult to learn how these results-based therapies can help with your new or chronic issues.

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01/28/2026

Clients with big toes, you need to try this!! 👇👇👇Get your big toes doing their jobs! 💪

If massaging the tissues in the arch (abductor hallucis muscle & fascia) with your thumb is not available to you, you can use a stacked fist. 🤛

You can also add a contract-relax-stretch to loosen and activate the abductor hallucis. Bring your big toe toward your face, hold it there with your fingers, then press your big toe into your fingers for 8 seconds, release and then stretch (point) the toe. Repeat 3 times. 🦶

If you need a reminder of what these techniques look like let me know. 📞

01/21/2026

When your low back hurts & you have a gap between clients… 🥾☀️😄

Serpent’s Trail is my go-to hike for back pain relief. I call it my physical therapy trail! 😂 It’s the perfect uphill grade to loosen muscles that refer to the low back, and help stabilize muscles that support the low back. 💪

Other bonuses: fresh air, movement, & sunshine help reset your nervous system & improve mood. And a desert bighorn ram chilling in the foreground of our local mountains helps too! 🤩

In case you’re interested, the underlying cause of my low back pain is scoliosis. My right hip is rotated forward, pulling on my L5 vertebrae. At times, the nerves coming out of the L5 become unhappy and my brain compensates by tightening up muscles to protect it and my spinal cord and discs, causing pain in my low back & down my right leg to my foot. AND, sometimes this fires up my old fibromyalgia. 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

Walking helps, but my real go-to’s are Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) and myofascial trigger point self-care.

I can quiet nerve, disc, spine, & fibro pain with FSM (medical grade) and loosen up & activate mover & stabilizer muscles with trigger point therapy. 👍

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01/20/2026

Nervous system regulation is necessary for healing anything. ❤️‍🩹🧠

It’s a process that returns the body to a balanced, calm, functional state after a stress or trauma. 🧘🏻‍♀️ This process must happen before your body can heal.

This is the first step I take to helping my clients reach their treatment goals. Sometimes it’s the main onion layer that needs peeled off. 🧅

I use Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) to help reset the nervous system and vagus nerve. It’s a big part of why i get fast results. ⚡️

Go take a hike, hum, dance, sing, paint, and let me know what works for you!💃🏻

If you would like more info on how I can help, please call/text to schedule a free phone consult. 📞

01/18/2026

Not magic, it’s myofascial trigger point therapy & FSM. 🪄✨🤷🏻‍♀️
It seems magical to my clients because they have typically tried everything and not gotten relief or results.

In this case we…
⚡️ melted adhesions & scar tissue that was sticking everything together from the surgeries — this can help with pain, numbness, & restricted movement, (often in the first session)
🎯 found & treated trigger points in muscles, some probably developed from altered gait after surgery, some were most likely there before & putting tension on the knee & hip joints
💪 released a trigger point in her shoulder that caused the opposite hip to be “way looser “ with walking. (It’s called myofascial trigger point therapy because it releases muscles AND fascia, and fascia connects EVERYTHING!)
😌 relaxed, a lot! FSM helps reset your nervous system & relaxes muscles & other soft tissues. We call it “smoosh”!

A lot happens in a trigger point session. This is no fluff & buff. It’s a process to find & treat the underlying cause(s) of muscle pain or dysfunction.

📞 Call/ text to set up a free phone consult if you’re interested in learning more about these results-based therapies.

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01/07/2026

How fit are your feet? 👣 💪

01/02/2026

Wishing everyone a RELAXED, pain-free, & ACTIVE 2026! 🥳 🌟💪

Come see me this year if you:
~ have pain or tension
~ have numbness or tingling
~ experience muscle weakness
~ have restricted movement
~ need adhesions/scar tissue released
~ want to improve sports performance
~ have stress or anxiety
~ have to keep going back again & again to get the same issue worked on
~ haven’t felt “smoosh”, which when I relax your entire body into my table 😉

Trigger point therapy addresses all of that 👆👆👆and more! It’s an outcome-based PROCESS that works to find & treat the root cause. 🎯⚡️

A session with me includes any or all of the following depending on your specific symptoms/ treatment goals & is customized just for you:
🔹 evaluation & assessment
🔹 nervous system reset
🔹 vagus nerve reboot
🔹 massage techniques
🔹 melting adhesions & scar tissue
🔹 trigger point release techniques
🔹 active myofascial release
🔹 activate stabilizer muscles
🔹 microcurrent FSM
🔹 PEMF technology
🔹 eye movement retraining
🔹 self-care education, learn how to find & treat your muscles at home!
🔹 red light therapy (coming soon!!)

Fix WHY, not just where!
📞 Call/text to set up a free phone consult to learn how these results-based therapies can help with your chronic issues.