What is Spirit Winds Therapy?
Spirit Winds Therapy is a holistic physical therapy clinic where “East meets West”. A Western understanding of anatomy and physiology is blended with Eastern philosophies of the energetic interactions of the body. Treatment occurs in an intimate, peaceful, calming, supportive & personal environment. The care provided at Spirit Winds Therapy is administrated in 3 different ways: through Manual Therapy, through Low Level Laser Therapy and through Exercise.

Spirit Winds Therapy augments your rehabilitation process by use of a modality called Low Level Laser Therapy. All illness, disease process, aches and pains involve cells that are not operating at their full potential. Low Level Laser Therapy works by recharging your cells. The Low Level Laser device emits specific wavelengths of light into your body. These specific wavelengths promote the production of an enormous amount of cellular energy known as ATP. This energy can then be used to assist your cells to heal and regenerate faster, thus reducing and /or eliminating your aches and pains.

The last way that we administer physical therapy is through Exercises, which consist of stretches, strengthening and neuromuscular retraining as appropriate and specific to your needs. These exercises help retrain and maintain the gains that have been made structurally through the Manual and Low Level Laser Therapies. Education of proper body mechanics is always emphasized, as well as how to progress your exercises after graduating from physical therapy.

EXCITING NEWS…
After much consideration and listening to our devoted clients, Spirit Winds Therapy has decided to participate with Medicare and other insurances. This way we can reach a greater number of clients who would not be able to utilize our services otherwise. We are excited to be expanding our sphere of influence. In order to assist us with this process, we will need to have your physician write a prescription for physical therapy. If you do not have a physician, we would be happy to refer you to several physicians whom we know provide excellent care. Please give us a call at (805) 543-5100 and we will call your insurance company to check on your eligibility and benefits for outpatient physical therapy. Any co-pay and / or deductibles will be made known to you prior to beginning physical therapy. Cash patients will still be welcomed.

When a client comes to Spirit Winds Therapy, the first step towards treatment is to listen. We strive to understand what the client’s concerns are, their medical history, traumas, functional limitations and most importantly, their goals.

During every session, posture, range of motion and movement patterns are assessed as appropriate to the client’s needs, limitations and goals.

Further assessment is then performed with our hands. Tensional patterns related to the client’s signs and symptoms are traced throughout the body. These tensional patterns are then further differentiated to discern what specific types of tissues are involved and to what extent. Some tissues and systems that are assessed include the following: muscle, fascia and connective tissue, viscera, nerves, arteries, veins, lymph, bones and joints.

Through Manual Therapy techniques, Low Level Light Laser Therapy and Exercise, these tensional patterns are released. The approach is gentle but very specific and effective. Our approach aims to utilize the body’s own mechanisms to effect change in the tissues at a deep level. The approach is designed not to “heal” an individual, but rather to allow the individual’s own healing mechanisms and processes to be initiated, thus allowing for change.

For example, if a client is complaining of wrist pain, we act like detectives to determine tensional patterns. Let’s say we determined that their wrist tension is stemming from their neck. There are a tremendous number of structures that comprise the neck – the vertebrae, the spinal cord, arteries, veins, nerves, lymph, to name a few. Many of these structures are often involved and are under tension. Because everything is connected in the body, strains in the neck could eventually lead to strains in the wrist. By treating the neck, we can, in essence, relieve strains in the wrist. We would do this by first addressing the neck strains with Manual Therapy and Low Level Laser Therapy. We would then follow these strain patterns down to the wrist. Exercises will be incorporated as the person becomes more structurally aligned. The aim of the exercises is to reeducate, maintain and further foster these new gains in range of motion rather than strengthening a compensatory pattern of movement.

“The process is amazing,” says one 53–year-old female client. “Within a few minutes, Michele identified a childhood trauma that had occurred when I was just seven years old. And she also zeroed in on a weakness in my vision that was affecting my balance.”

At Spirit Winds Therapy, our aim is to aid you past stuck points so that you may reach your greatest potential. If you have questions whether our approach can benefit you, please feel free to call us. We will be happy to answer any questions.