Sharon Sandin,
Licensed Massage Practitioner
A graduate of Seattle Massage School with fifteen years of massage and bodywork experience focusing on the relief of chronic and acute pain patterns. Continued education with:
Stewart Taws British Institute of Sports Therapy
Soft Tissue Release/Sports Massage Oct. 1995
Don Christner,N.D. Myopathic Muscular Therapy
(Neuromuscular Re-education) 2001
Ernesto Fernandez Body Talk System Modules I-II 2002
John Barnes Myofascial Release Techniques
Fascial-Pelvis with Osseous Integration in Oct 1997
Myofascial Release Mobilization in April 2005
Erik Dalton Advanced Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques June 2007
Rocky Mountain Mystery School 2007- Teacher Level One
Sharon uses a combo of MFR and MSR to evaluate and treat postural distortions and their impact on pain and dysfunction.
Educated in Sports Massage, Myofascial Release (MFR) with structural integration and mobilization, trigger point therapy, muscle energy techniques, and neuron-muscular re-education. She also uses a QGM infratonic sound therapy machine to reduce pain, inflammation, and accelerate healing.
Sharon's treatment approach is a "Whole Body" approach, rather than one of just treating symptoms. This is done by focusing on the client's fascial system, movement, and postural patterns.
Fascia is the connective tissue that covers the body's muscles, bones, nerves, organs, and vessels down to the cellular level and holds them in place. Damage or inflammation to the fascia can bind it down, resulting in abnormal pressure and dysfunction with pain and dysfunctional movement patterns.
Myofascial release techniques are primarily used in treatment, Myofscial release is a whole-body-hands on approach for the evaluation and treatment of the human structure, focusing on the fascial system. It is similar to deep tissue massage in it's focus on the fascia of the body, however these techniques produce dramatic and profound changes in posture and movement, with out the intense, sometimes painful work of deep tissue massage.
In myofascial release, a stretch is applied along the line of fascial fibers of the restricted muscles or tendon until resistance to further stretching is felt. The stretch is then held in the lengthen position until the soft tissue is felt to relax and/or "release". These techniques are applied in conjuction with specific symptomatic treatment. This approach is a complimentary adjunct therapy to chiropractic treatment.
