Services
Check out Tracey's range of modalities, one or more of which will address your needs and help you feel better.
Onero® Bone Strengthening
Barral Institute Training (BI)
Craniosacral Therapy
Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement®
Pilates Instruction
Postural Restoration
ONERO is a supervised, evidence-based program designed to improve leg and core strength, improve balance and mobility, and reduce risk of osteoporotic fracture by improving bone strength and reducing falls. Each session, consisting of a group of four supervised by Tracey, includes balance, coordination, strengthening, postural education; impact-loading; and supervised weightlifting in accordance with the ONERO protocol. The high-intensity resistance and impact-loading is designed to improve bone health in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and osteopenia and in older men with low bone mass. An initial assessment is performed and repeated after 12 months of twice-per-week progressive sessions.
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The Barral Institute (BI) comprises manual osteopathic techniques developed by the French physical therapist Jean-Pierre Barral. The work is based on “listening” to, or feeling into, the areas of the body that reveal the greatest restriction, which is the best place to start manual therapy. Tracey uses visceral manipulation, neuromeningeal manipulation, and vascular and articular manipulation. She works with the body’s innate intelligence in order to release deep fascial restrictions, revealed through the listening, to relieve pain and help restore optimal movement within a tissue or organ while enhancing overall function and vitality. The techniques also improve the parasympathetic nervous system and induce states of relaxation.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST), based on the work of osteopath John Upledger, is a manual therapy that emphasizes light touch in evaluating and enhancing the craniosacral system, which comprises the bones, membranes, and cerebrospinal fluid protecting the brain and spinal cord. Tracey has trained in craniosacral therapy, somatoemotional release, and craniosacral therapy applications for concussion. The therapies address restrictions from trauma, faulty posture, and other nonoptimal conditions; their release leads to improved function of the nervous system as well as the digestive, cardiac, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems. Following treatment, patients report feeling less pain, relaxed, centered and balanced.
Anat Baniel Method Neuromovement (ABMNM) is based on Moshe Feldenkrais’s observation: “movement is the language of the brain.” Anat Baniel further developed his paradigm with nine essential concepts designed to potently awaken the brain and facilitate positive change: movement with attention, slow, variation, subtlety, enthusiasm, flexible goals, the “learning switch,” imagination and dreams, and awareness. Movement with awareness creates a shift from thinking to feeling and from fixing to connecting. It has a remarkable impact on pain, function, movement, posture, thoughts, and emotions. It does this through neuroplasticity, creating new connections in the brain and new possibilities for you.
Pilates is a mind-body exercise program that Tracey has implemented for decades with physical therapy and wellness. Her studio is equipped with a reformer, cadillac, arm chair, combination chair, and small apparatus. Pilates has six principles: concentration, control, centering, flow, precision, and breath. Tracey uses her pilates equipment to help clients get the feeling of movement in a horizontal position when it is not optimally available in a vertical posture, and, to strengthen the body within a full range of functional movement. This helps lengthen the spine and limbs and promotes deep-core support in the abdominal muscles.
Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) is an assessment-and-treatment system founded by physical therapist Ron Hruska. Based on the asymmetry of our internal organs, PRI investigates the body’s compensatory adaptations of faulty posture, movement and breathing patterns, through a series of tests that lead to manual and movement correctives. They improve posture, joint instability and pain, altered breathing, and inefficiency in movement. PRI is a wholistic approach that restores the body’s ability to move reciprocally, balancing how we move on our left and right sides. PRI techniques provide neuromuscular integration for our nervous, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems.