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Tangled Limbs llc

Special Purpose Neuromuscular Therapy

Mission Statement

It is my passion to provide special purpose massage therapy in a comfortable, safe space; tailored to your unique experience and struggle with neuroplastic pain associated with daily overwhelm, complex trauma, and hypermobility.

It is my intention to help you manage chronic pain, touch aversion, dissociation, headaches, constipation, lymphatic congestion, and fatigue.

It is my commitment to assist you in reuniting with your body.

NEUROMUSCULAR THERAPY

..is a special purpose massage, that I also refer to as trauma massage, that treats the body systemically to stimulate the body's own stabilizing mechanisms. It is intended to help relieve tension, normalize blood pressure, increase respiration, circulation and nutrient delivery to long constricted areas; break up lymphatic congestion and encourage lymph drainage, as well as engage the vagus nerve to promote waste removal, and balance hormonal and immune system responses.

It begins with an intake to identify bio-mechanical sources of pain and discomfort with a focus on therapeutic sensitivity to your personal conditions. Treatment is applied using various modalities with a slow pace, attention to details, and patience. This is ideally designed for complex PTSD and hypermobility disorders and to be a supplement to other mental health and physical therapies.

For more information, go to

https://www.complextrauma.org/

https://cptsdfoundation.org/

HYPERMOBILITY SPECTRUM

HMS disorders (i.e., Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or Marfan's Syndrome), are groupings of dysfunctional connective tissue disorders caused by gene mutations which weaken connective tissue ranging from mild to severe. These are multi-symptomatic and multi-systemic conditions, most commonly causing hypermobility in unstable joints, leading to frequent muscle spasms and tendonitis. There can also be significant disruptions in organ systems especially digestive and cardiovascularly. Trauma massage is a supplemental therapy to help manage pain, gastroparesis, headaches, immune resistance, and emotional stress associated with these lifelong conditions. Tangled Limbs llc aims to help you learn, navigate, advocate, and manage your care in a medical system that is lagging in its understanding and support of individuals suffering with these complex disorders.

For more information, go to

https://www.hypermobility.org/

www.ehlers-danlos.com.

https://marfan.org/

Complex Trauma...

... is derived from repeated traumatic events over long periods of time. Symptoms include but are not limited to emotional dysregulation, hypervigilance, disassociation, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trouble concentrating, ADHD, social anxiety, withdrawal, dysfunction in relationships, isolation and alienation; high sensitivity and slow recovery to stress, and touch aversion. Physically it can present with chronic muscle tension and pain, postural deviations, gastrointestinal problems, poor circulation and respiration, regular headaches/migraines, neck and jaw pain, low immune resistance, hormonal imbalance, sleep disruption and fatigue.

Also referred to as Complex PTSD, it can be caused by and not limited to narcisstic emotional abuse or bullying from family members, friends/peers, co-workers, or employers; childhood neglect or foster care instability, and at worst, physical and/or sexual abuse.

According to the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute,

massage therapy can provide relief from physical, emotional, and mental stress and decrease levels of depression, anxiety, irritability,

and other symptoms associated with trauma exposure (Collinge, Kahn, & Soltysik 2012).

Massage is particularly relevant to trauma because traumatized individuals live in a state of hypervigilance which maintains a

chronic and harmful high level of stress hormones like, cortisol, adrenaline/epinephrine and norepinephrine. Massage therapy has shown to decrease these levels while increasing Serotonin and Dopamine hormone levels which are associated with a positive elevation of mood (Field, Hernandez-Reif, Diego, Schanberg, & Kuhn, 2005).

"Massage therapy can also help to increase circulation, relieve some physical pain, and relax tensed muscles (Price, 2005).

This relaxation can enable traumatized people

to let go of their fight or flight stress response

and attain a calmer state of being,

which can be helpful both in therapy

and in navigating daily life

(Hatayama, Kitamura, Tamura, Nagano, & Ohnuki, 2008)."

--www.TICTI.org