LeFore's Spa

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sept. 29th B2B Event

A link to see some of tonight's highlights...

http://animoto.com/play/HI1ZNTeBgL0ToWGyrzSFVA

In conjunction with the Walla Walla Chamber of Commerce We are hosting their new Business 2 Business Venue!

A Wine pouring with Grantwood winery will also be happening.
Grantwood is a new boutique winery in the Walla Walla Valley. Joe Grant and Doris Wood have been making wine for the past nine years. Their wine is made from Walla Walla Appalachian grapes. Grantwood makes small batches of wine, about 150-200 cases per year. The owners Joe and Doris are producing some world-class wines at a nice price.

From The Chamber Website:

Join us for our brand new event, B2B: Business to Business, the last Thursday of the month at 5:30pm.

Open to Chamber members and non-Chamber members. It's a great chance to meet local professionals
and create business contacts in a casual atmosphere.

Come and see what the Chamber can do for you!

Bring a non-member for a chance to win great door prizes!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Relief for Sciatica nerve pain

Going to continuing education for massage therapy in Portland often feels like I’m attending a convention for extras from a Science Fiction movie. Older women with oversized glasses and wildly disheveled hair cluster on one side of the room, discussing there lasted revelations with energy work. Students huddle together on the other side, awkwardly flirting between texts and sporadically looking at anatomy flash cards. The rest of the assorted gathering falls somewhere between the extremes, sitting quietly and sipping cheap hotel coffee. I always expect the older crowd to whip out a ruler and dispense some discipline on one of the flirting students, but this doesn’t happen and I turn my attention back to the class material.
The last class I attended was for sciatica relief, something many of my clients suffer from. Sciatica can be caused from traumatic falls or accidents but more often than not it is from prolonged sitting, poor posture, inadequate core support and poor flexibility. The key to effectively treating sciatica is being able to access where it is originating from and treating accordingly.
Most of the massages I do at the spa require the client to be passive and relax. Treating sciatica is almost the complete opposite. Retraining the muscles, nerves and joints requires active involvement of the client.
If you have sciatic pain, don’t expect this treatment to be a relaxing experience, but do expect results and to be actively involved in your healing. Having worked at physical therapy clinics in the past, these treatments are much more along those lines. With that I will also expect you to do the exercises at home that will continue to aid you in your recovery, and if you don’t I just might have to have one of my new friends from class whip out their ruler and dispense some discipline. Trust me, you’ll thank me in the end.