Julstro Muscular Therapy

Hi,

Chronic pain is a terrible thing, keeping you up at night, aching all day long, affecting your work and stopping you from doing the things you love.

As you know, I teach people how to do self-treatments for chronic pain and sports injuries. I also speak at conventions and teach self-treatment clinics, which is what this blog is all about. It’s so important to me to bring this information to as many people as possible that I love it when I find out that someone has been able to improve their daily life because of my work.

The message below came from a lady who attended a talk I gave in NH two weeks ago, which ended up have people leaning against walls (to treat their shoulder, hip, or back), lying on the floor (same areas), and learning how to self-treat the muscles that cause hand/wrist pain and numbness.

I am amazed by how much better I feel since meeting you two weeks ago. I’ve been reading and re-reading your book and performing the techniques on my quads, illiopsoas, and gluts, and hamstrings since then. First of all, my pain level is greatly reduced. More importantly, I’m able to sense a spasm coming on quickly (now that I am so much more mindful about what is causing the discomfort) and treat the spasm immediately. For the first time since 1998, I have days without pain and discomfort and more importantly, I have HOPE! Thank you so much Julie. ~ B. McDermott, Hudson, NH.

If you are in an association that has speakers at their conference, please let me know so I can put in a request to be a presenter.

Thanks a lot,
Julie

Last night I had a meeting with Steve Chaney, PhD and Dr. Gallagher (chiropractor in Apex). Dr. Steve is the Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry at UNC Medical School. Dr. Gallagher has been concerned because he has several patients who are extremely overweight, to the point of it being potentially life-threatening, so he has been searching for a healthy program that has been clinically proven to maintain muscle while also losing fat. Dr. Gallagher is well-aware of all the dangerous programs that are on the market and he was determined to find the safest program for his patients.

Shaklee has done so much research on the Cinch® products, and all the other nutritional products, that Dr. Gallagher knew this was the only program he wanted to share with his patients. Dr. Gallagher was also impressed with the fact that Dr. Chaney had put together a group of 42 participants with a common goal of “1,000 Pounds Lighter, 1,000 Times Healthier” by the end of the year, and the group had already lost a total of 549 pounds in just 3 months!

Meanwhile, Dr. Steve has been running an online webinar and consultation program that is called the Cinch Lifestyle Program. This is a free 12 week program that is open to select participants who are using the Cinch® products to lose weight. It teaches people how to make the lifestyle changes that lead to permanent weight loss. It teaches people how to internalize those lifestyle changes so that they just become what you do without even thinking about it. Dr. Gallagher was so impressed with Dr. Steve’s group that he’s going to invite his patients to join the program.

We are having a meeting on May 30th to introduction the Cinch Weight-Loss program to everyone in Apex and Cary, NC. The meeting will begin at 7PM and will be held at Chiropractic First, 1011 W. Williams St., Ste. 104, Apex, NC 27502. If you’re in the area you are invited to join us.

It’s a fantastic program, I’m going on it myself to eliminate the final 20 lbs I want to lose. While the Introduction will be held at Chiropractic First, people can join from anywhere in the USA as this program is done via an online webinar and telephone conference calls with Dr. Steve. Shaklee also has an online program to track food consumed (including breaking it down to carbs and proteins), and also has a Registered Dietitian who takes calls and answers questions.

If you know anyone who is interested in losing weight in a very healthy manner that also works on changing lifestyles, please tell them to contact me (Julie@julstro.com). We’ll be opening up a website for people, but for now the best method is to contact me directly.

Wishing you well,
Julie

Hi Everyone,

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s out there, hope your day was as nice as mine.

Today I was talking to a woman who spent many hours on a computer finishing up a project and her eyes hurt. Here’s a real simple self-treatment:

Close your eyes and put the side of your pointer finger, all the way up by your fingernail, along the very top of your eyeball. If you wear contacts either remove them, or look all the way down so you aren’t pressing into them.

Then just press your fingers into the back of your eyeball (or as far back as you can go. You’ll be pressing on the very tiny muscle that moves your eyeball to the left and right. Just stay still on the point for about 30 seconds. Then go to the very outside point of eye and do the same thing. You may even get a color and geometric shape show while you’re doing this.

You are relaxing the spasms in the muscles that move your eyeball, and it feels wonderful. You don’t need to press too hard, just enough that you feel a slight discomfort, which will lessen as you hold the spasm. If you’d like pictures of how to do this, they are in my book, Treat Yourself to Pain-Free Living.

Your eyes will feel so refreshed and if you have a little bit of a headache, it usually disappears.

Wishing you well,
Julie

A young woman, I’ll call her Mary (not her real name), came to see me this week because she’s had terrible chronic spasms in her shoulder and neck for over three years. None of the medical professionals she’s gone to has been able to release them and it’s gotten so bad that she hasn’t been able to go back to college this semester, and she’s getting very depressed because she’s also not having fun like the rest of her friends, she just sits home in pain.

Mary’s shoulder was so tight that it looked like she had a golf ball under her skin at the top of her shoulder, and she couldn’t turn her head to either side. I’ve worked with a lot of people over the past 24 years (thousand actually) and her shoulder was among the worst I’d ever seen.

The good news was that the doctors had cleared all of the serious possibilities, and in the past the only relief she had ever gotten was during a massage and an Atlas/Axis chiropractic adjustment. This confirmed that muscles were the most logical cause of her pain.

As we worked together I found that all of the muscles that go along her spine (erector spinae) were very tight, and her pelvis was rotated down in the front. Her quadriceps were like shortened, tight ropes of muscle, which were pulling down on her pelvis — causing the pelvis rotation. It took a LOT of work to release the muscles, but they did start to loosen, and then I worked on all of the muscles that have an impact on the pelvis. Then I taught Mary how to do the self-treatments on the muscles at the front of her neck, called the scalenes. It was very painful, even the slightest pressure caused pain, but that’s one of the benefits of self-treatment, you can adjust the pressure to be perfect for yourself and then gradually go deeper and deeper. Mary told me that she not only didn’t have a curve in her cervical spine, but that it was actually a reverse curve that the chiropractor has been treating and having some success at moving. After 1 1/2 hours she was turning her head much better and the pain wasn’t as severe.

Then we began to discuss nutrition. I’m really grateful that Steve Chaney, PhD is the Director of my Shaklee team. Steve is the Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry at UNC Medical School (I’ve mentioned this before, but it makes me so happy that I wanted to mention it again). I learning about nutrition and the Shaklee products, but Steve is an expert on both. He called and spoke to Mary and found out that her diet was seriously lacking calcium of any kind, and also devoid of vitamin D. Mary didn’t eat green vegetables, and she didn’t drink milk. They had a lengthy telephone consultation and Steve recommended several of Shaklee’s products, but especially Osteomatrix and Vitamin D for the missing nutrients that build bones, and because a lack of calcium in the diet will cause the muscles to spasm for no apparent reason. He also recommended Alfalfa because of it’s anti-inflammatory properties, and Vitalizer as an overall multivitamin.

When Mary went to her chiropractor immediately after our session, the doctor was amazed at the ease of adjustment. It’s so logical that when the muscles are released they aren’t putting pressure on the bone, so the bone moves easily.

Mary lives in New York, near my daughter Anne-Marie, who is an excellent muscular therapist trained in the Julstro techniques, so she’s going to continue her weekly treatments, both massage and chiropractic.

I feel in my heart that Mary is going to get 100% better, it may take a little while, but she’s definitely on the road to recovery.

If you or someone you know, is suffering from joint pain or repetitive strain injuries, I hope you’ll go onto my website and read why muscles can cause any number of problems including; headaches, neck pain, tinnitus, low back pain, sciatica, pain in any of the joints, and even plantar fasciitis (foot pain).

Wishing you well,
Julie