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Dr. Kirschner is the ideal partner to get you back to health. She built her reputation in the healthcare community as being a highly skilled manual therapist. She provides the highest standard of quality care supported by education, experience, and research-based techniques. Dr. Kirschner specializes in managing the complex patient by observing the patient holistically and applying advanced manual therapy skills as indicated by an ongoing diagnostic evaluation. She believes that patient education is critical to a patient's ongoing recovery. She also develops an individualized plan of care for each of her patients.
Complete Decongestive Therapy is used for lymphedema and lipedema patients and includes manual lymphatic drainage, bandaging, and garment prescription. Patients who require lymphatic detoxification and lymphatic congestion relief also benefit from manual lymphatic drainage.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a gentle rhythmic manual technique that is used to cleanse the body's tissues from metabolic wage, excess water, toxins, and bacteria. Aside from lymphatic decongestion, manual lymphatic drainage also increases lymphatic activity thereby stimulating the immune system, increasing circulation, promoting overall relaxation, reducing pain levels, and having a diuretic effect.
Myofascial Release is an effective manual therapy technique for many patients including those with trauma, fibromyalgia, Lyme and associated diseases, relapsing polychondritis, arthritis, inflammatory or infections conditions, structural imbalance and chronic pain. It is a whole body, hands on approach for the evaluation and treatment of the body with emphasis on releasing fascial restrictions affecting the muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organs.
Visceral Mobilization is a gentle manual therapy that encourages normal mobility and tone of the internal organs of the body and the attached structures. These tissues can lose their normal motion from trauma, surgery, infection, pollution, toxins, diet, pregnancy, posture, repetitive movement, and stress. Restoring mobility to these structures enhances their function and health by restoring better physiologic motion. The organs in our abdomen and chest move when we breathe, walk and stretch. For example, when we take a breath the liver moves. If an organ is restricted and fixed to another structure, the body is forced to compensate. Abnormal points of tension may develop and this irritation may cause other functional and structural problems. Visceral mobilization is beneficial in restoring normal mobility of the organs and their attached tissues.
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle manual therapy that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. The craniosacral system acts like a semi-closed hydraulic system in the Dura Mater which envelops the brain and spinal cord. Here the cerebral spinal fluid is produced, circulated, and reabsorbed. Disruption of this system can lead to pressure buildup of the cerebral spinal fluid in the central nervous system. Patients with headaches, TMJ dysfunction, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, stress, trauma, and chronic pain may benefit from this technique.
Complete Decongestive Therapy is used for lymphedema and lipedema patients and includes manual lymphatic drainage, bandaging, and garment prescription. Patients who require lymphatic detoxification and lymphatic congestion relief also benefit from manual lymphatic drainage.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a gentle rhythmic manual technique that is used to cleanse the body's tissues from metabolic wage, excess water, toxins, and bacteria. Aside from lymphatic decongestion, manual lymphatic drainage also increases lymphatic activity thereby stimulating the immune system, increasing circulation, promoting overall relaxation, reducing pain levels, and having a diuretic effect.
Myofascial Release is an effective manual therapy technique for many patients including those with trauma, fibromyalgia, Lyme and associated diseases, relapsing polychondritis, arthritis, inflammatory or infections conditions, structural imbalance and chronic pain. It is a whole body, hands on approach for the evaluation and treatment of the body with emphasis on releasing fascial restrictions affecting the muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organs.
Visceral Mobilization is a gentle manual therapy that encourages normal mobility and tone of the internal organs of the body and the attached structures. These tissues can lose their normal motion from trauma, surgery, infection, pollution, toxins, diet, pregnancy, posture, repetitive movement, and stress. Restoring mobility to these structures enhances their function and health by restoring better physiologic motion. The organs in our abdomen and chest move when we breathe, walk and stretch. For example, when we take a breath the liver moves. If an organ is restricted and fixed to another structure, the body is forced to compensate. Abnormal points of tension may develop and this irritation may cause other functional and structural problems. Visceral mobilization is beneficial in restoring normal mobility of the organs and their attached tissues.
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle manual therapy that releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. The craniosacral system acts like a semi-closed hydraulic system in the Dura Mater which envelops the brain and spinal cord. Here the cerebral spinal fluid is produced, circulated, and reabsorbed. Disruption of this system can lead to pressure buildup of the cerebral spinal fluid in the central nervous system. Patients with headaches, TMJ dysfunction, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, stress, trauma, and chronic pain may benefit from this technique.