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What's the Deal with Craniosacral Therapy?
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) was one of those mystical things I had only loosely heard about. What I had heard weren't necessarily good...

Laura Welch
Feb 7, 20222 min read
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The Diaphragm: The Ultimate Multitasker
If you've ever found yourself lying down in a yoga class, you may have been challenged to place one hand on your heart and one on your...

Laura Welch
Nov 29, 20215 min read
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Woop, there it is.
Pain. It's a complicated thing. Thank goodness, a lot of research goes into figuring out pain. What is it? Where does it come from? ...

Laura Welch
Nov 11, 20214 min read
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Shine a Light on your Mind to Move Forward: Learned helplessness, rumination, and catastrophizing
Wow, this is some heavy stuff. It's a great "chicken or the egg" paradox. Which came first? Did the injury/pain jump start some tough...

Laura Welch
Aug 1, 20215 min read
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Ego vs. Injury
This is a post I wrote in Wordpress in 2017. I was a little more blunt (possibly crass) then, but it still holds true. Since I don't use...

Laura Welch
Sep 15, 20204 min read
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Lethargic or Actually Tired?
I've been reading books and listening to podcasts about emotions lately. One paradox that interests me is this: it is important to be in touch with your feelings however, sometimes your feelings can be misleading or not entirely true. One argument is that we don't have the expansive vocabulary that is required to most accurately label the feeling. For example, someone could say they are mad when what they really mean is that they're disappointed. The more specific the lab
Nov 19, 20253 min read


Superficial Fascia Blowing My Mind
This summer was full of continuing education for me and although they were all wonderful, my streak ended with a bang of two courses that...
Sep 23, 20253 min read


You Are Not Your Diagnosis
At a continuing education course, the Canadian physiotherapist teacher poked fun at my class saying, "Oh you Americans, you are always...
Jun 10, 20253 min read
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