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| About
Stephen Opper |
 Stephen
Opper
The focus of my work is to provide effective relief of chronic
and acute pain. I achieve this by releasing the soft tissues that are in spasm,
and by correcting alignment and biomechanics which may have caused or perpetuated
the painful condition.
About Me
I came to study the healing arts
after years of training in martial arts and qi-gong. This led me to study Tui-na,
Chinese medical massage, at the International Institute of Chinese medicine in
Albuquerque, NM.
Tui-na is the manual medicine component of Chinese medicine, and includes aspects
similar to massage therapy, physical therapy, and osteopathy. Tui-na is based
on both musculoskeletal anatomy, as well as Chinese energetic anatomy, and treats
both physical and physiological conditions.
I graduated in 1998 and have been in private practice since that time. I also
hold a B.A. in ethnoecology from Warren Wilson College.
I have also been fully trained in Neuromuscular therapy, St. John method, and
have received advanced Neuromuscular therapy training through Neurosomatic educators.
I have studied various other modalities in order to increase my understanding
and effectiveness, including:
| • | Deep
myofascial release | • | Energy
work | | • | Thai
medical massage | • | Cranio-sacral
therapy | | • |
Qi-gong
healing | • | Visceral
balancing |
I
do not separate modalities, but draw from my repertoire as needed.
It is through my studies of qi-gong and energy arts that I came to my appreciation
of the importance of alignment, which has been augmented through training in structural
bodywork. Electromagnetic energy flows easily through a body that is relaxed.
Maintaining relaxation in movement requires proper alignment, and when proper
alignment is restored, many seemingly unrelated energetic and physiological issues
are spontaneously resolved.
Even those issues that aren’t resolved structurally are affected much more
easily by other modalities such as acupuncture, herbology, homeopathy, energy
work, etc., once proper alignment has been restored.
I know first-hand how debilitating chronic pain can be, and I have learned how
unnecessary it usually is.
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