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"Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the operating definition of insanity." - Ben Franklin
Garvice Nicholson
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”. Tom Myers and his work, Anatomy Trains, has changed the way I look at patients. As a practicing physical therapist for 30 years and a former teacher, I have presented and received many courses that included “lip service” about holistic care, but, failed to truly consider interrelationships in the body. Anatomy Trains provides a clear and useful map of myofascial continuities that allows the practitioner to see and intervene in effective ways. Conditions such as thoracic outlet or cervical brachial syndrome can be treated along the entire neurovascular pathway when one understands the various “arm lines” of Anatomy Trains. Patients with low back pain and poor sitting posture are ubiquitous in our culture. Anatomy Trains provided me with a greater understanding of the interplay between the trunk, neck, and hip extensor groups and how they must be balanced with the myofascia of the anterior body. These are but a few of the applications I see useful for the therapist practicing in the musculoskeletal arena. Furthermore, Anatomy Trains gives one the opportunity to move beyond the fragmented approach of simply treating the symptomatic part, and, to see more of the whole structure.
Garvice has been a practicing physical therapist since 1976. He taught and practiced manual therapy and anatomy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for 24 years. During the late 1990's, he became interested in structural integration and completed training with Tom Myers at KMI in 2003. Garvice also is board certified as an orthopaedic physical therapist and is Fellow in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists. He currently resides and practices physical therapy/structural integration with his wife, Gaylin Lucas in Mukilteo, Washington.
Garvice can be contacted via email: viewpointpt@msn.com |
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