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11/06/2025

I had a client recently who came in complaining of severe lower back pain right across her beltline. Usually this is a clear indication of SI joint dysfunction.

🧠 Testing revealed that her R iliolumbar ligament was overactive and inhibiting it's counterpart on the opposite side. This was causing weakness in her intrinsic core muscles, and opposite glute max as well.

🧐 Whenever I find a major dysfunctional pattern on one side of the body, I always look to the OPPOSITE side of the body to see if there is anything there that it might be compensating for. Sure enough, she had a previous surgery on her L achilles tendon.

🎚To protect the area after surgery, her nervous system had turned down the volume on all the major muscles of her L leg, and assigned the opposite iliolumbar ligament the job of stabilizing her pelvis and lumbar spine. This was leading to severe tension and compression around her SI joint.

💡 Turns out that the ligament pattern was NOT the problem - it was only the compensation for the problem!

🦶 First we released the achilles scar and activated the muscles that stabilize her ankle. Then we released her deep big toe flexor and activated the extensors.

🦿 Suddenly the whole leg came back online and the pattern with the L iliolumbar ligament was gone. She got off the table and was shocked at how much better she felt!

✅️ Retesting afterwards showed that the dysfunctional patterns were gone. Now she just has to stick to her homework to ensure that she engrains new, more sustainable movement patterns, and that her pain continues to improve.

11/03/2025

Most people think of posture simply as the way someone stands, but some of the most important postural patterns show up in much less obvious places - like the cranium!

When a client first lies down on my table, I often begin by observing how the various bones of the cranium and upper cervical spine organize themselves when they don't have to oppose gravity.

Is the head rotated slightly to one side? Does one side of the occiput sit lower than the other? Is one of the temporal bones rotating, shearing forward of the other, or flaring in or out? Is there a rotation or shear in the atlas (C1) or axis (C2)?

These tiny details reveal a lot.
The relationship between the cranium, atlas, and axis is the body’s neurological steering system. If that system is off — even by a few millimeters — the entire body has to adapt below it, and vice versa:

The shoulders compensate, the pelvis shifts, and gait changes.

A Neurosomatic cranial assessment is not so much about “bones out of place" as it is about the patterns of communication between the head and the rest of the body.

Assessing the cranium gives me valuable clues as to how your nervous system is responding and which structures I might want to address during treatment.

Any good assesement includes the cranium!

10/30/2025

Posture tells a story.

When I look at a client, I’m not judging “good” or “bad” posture — I’m decoding how their nervous system has adapted to the stressors of life.

A hiked shoulder, a tilted pelvis, a rotated rib cage - none of this is random.

Each is a clue to how your body has been protecting itself.

The goal isn’t to force symmetry — it’s to understand the pattern behind it.

Healing starts when we stop trying to "fix" posture and start listening.

👉 Save this post as a reminder that posture is communication, not a flaw.

10/26/2025

Before we begin treatment, these 5 questions tell me almost everything I need to know about your pain.

Pain isn't random, it follows patterns - of movement, tension, stress, and compensation. During every intake, I ask these "Big 5" questions to decode the body's story:

1️⃣ What exactly are your symptoms and where are they?
2️⃣ When did your symptoms begin?
3️⃣ What makes your symptoms worse?
4️⃣ What makes your symptoms better?
5️⃣ Can you recreate your symptoms?

Each one helps me begin to map your nervous system's patterns, so that instead of chasing pain, we can address it's cause.

👉Save this post for your next appointment.
📩Or message me if you'd like help answering your own Big 5.

10/23/2025

So many people walk into my office feeling unheard.

They’ve been told that their imaging looks “normal” or that their pain is “just in their head.”

But your experience is real. Your body is communicating something, and my job is to listen.

Then I can mirror your experience back to you so that we can both be sure that we’re on the same page.

Only then can we begin to design a treatment plan that’s best for you.

At Paragon Pain Solutions, every session begins with understanding your story. I take your sensations, your words, and your intuition seriously.

Healing starts when you feel safe enough to be fully heard.

10/19/2025

Your first session begins with a conversation.

The intake process is where we gather information so that we can start to connect the dots - your medical history, movement habits, and lifestyle. This helps to create an outline of the story your body has been telling for years.

Intake isn’t just paperwork, it’s the foundation of a precise and effective treatment. When we understand the reason behind your pain, we can design a plan that actually changes the way your body moves and feels.

Healing begins with understanding.

10/29/2024

Posted • When it comes to preventing injury in the gym, proper technique only gets you so far. You can do an exercise exactly as prescribed and still have a problem. Why? Using proper form doesn't automatically mean one's body is actually capable of doing so using the right muscles, in the right proportion, with proper firing sequences, etc. This is why paying attention to how an exercise FEELS can be so much more useful than just "technique" alone.

09/29/2024

Using Meta AI to imagine the next step in the evolution of Paragon Pain Solutions. The future looks bright.

09/10/2024

Training simply to build muscle mass and lose body fat without training basic fundamentals of movement and posture is like shooting a cannon out of a canoe.

It may look good, and it may be impressive when the cannon goes off, but you have no foundation.

The result is that you're going to wreck your boat and miss your target - which is health, longevity, and reduction of injury in the long-term.

03/11/2024

Stretch or strengthen?

Most treatment modalities tend to focus on either releasing tight tissue, or strenghtening lax tissue.

🪙 My approach is different because it is based on the understanding that these are two sides of the same coin.

🔑 The key is, you must have a systematic way to determine which muscles to release, and which ones to strengthen. Once you determine this, you must always release and strengthen the appropriate muscles together.

🧠 Mastering this will help ingrain new motor pathways that allow your nervous system to recruit more fibers in the muscles that you train.

❔️How do we know which muscles to release and which to strengthen? We test!

In my near decade of training and practice, I have found that you get the best results when you address both releasing and strenghtening at the same time. Often when you do this, amazing things happen!

10/04/2023

Catch me at the Fall for the Arts Festival this Sunday from 11am-5pm in Chestnut Hill. I will be offering free 15 minute consultations and $20 mini-treatments!

You can pre-register for a festival appointment by clicking the "Book Now" button in bio and selecting the Fall For the Arts appointments at the top of the page.

My booth will be located on the 8600 block of Germantown Ave. Stop by and say hi!

04/24/2023

🦷 The Masseter 🦷

☑️ This is another of the most important muscles that I treat. The masseter is commonly implicated in cases of teeth grinding and TMJ issues. It can also be implicated in cases of chronic headaches, sinus pain, tinnitus, vertigo, ear aches, low back pain, and hip dysfunction as well!

🔎 The masseter is the second most powerful muscle in your body (the gluteus maximus is the first). It's job is to elivate the mandible, such as during talking or chewing.

🧐 Very often I find the masseter tight and overworking for one or more core muscles - particularly the psoas and QLs. Sometimes it takes over for the muscles that stabilize the pelvis in the frontal plane. It some cases it can inhibit the function of the neck muscles as well.

💡 The masseter is a very emotionally-charged muscle. It tends to be the place where we hold a lot of supressed frustration and anger. This is often at the root of chronic TMJ issues.

🔎 While the masseter has two separate heads (superficial and deep), it is usually the deep head that is the culprit. When I treat masseter issues with my clients, I usually start by warming up the area with some external jaw massage before putting on gloves and going inside the mouth to treat the deep head of the muscle.

✅️ The next step involves activating the muscles that are being inhibited by the masster with specific corrective exercises. Usually after repeating this protocol a few times, the resting tone of the masseter calms down, and symptoms improve dramatically!

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