Fuller Performance and Recovery

This client presented with lower back and hip pain from a desk job. During palpation and testing I discovered an overworking QL and an underworking psoas.

When the psoas contracts isometrically and against the right amount of load, it can help improve stability around the lumbar spine and pelvis. Increased stability often results in decreased pain.

When the psoas fires properly, the QL often no longer has constantly stay “on”.

Sometimes the fastest way to relax an overworked muscle isn’t to stretch or massage it, but to activate the muscle that’s actually supposed to be doing the work.

Am I the only one who acts weird at lunch? Nothing to see here…just a quick 15 min reset! 👀🧑🏻‍🩰

This client presented with a cubital tunnel surgery scar that is painful and tight. He reported a lot of “pulling and tugging” at the site even years after the incision site healed.

After surgery or injury, your body rapidly produces collagen to stabilize the area. The problem is that this collagen is laid down quickly and in a disorganized pattern.

Instead of smooth, parallel fibers that allow tissue to move freely, scar tissue forms a dense, crisscross network that can become stiff, painful, and can limit mobility.

Here I’m using Dolphin Neurostim and low-level DC microcurrent (NOT a tens unit!) to help change the electrical polarity of scar tissue deep within the dermis.

By influencing the scar’s electrical environment, the tissue can become more receptive to remodeling while helping restore normal movement and glide between tissue layers.

Scar tissue often starts forming within the first day after surgery, but the symptoms may not show up until months or even years later.

Your old hernia, C-section, knee surgery, or laparoscopic scar may still be affecting how your body moves toda. I see this in my treatment room EVERY DAY.

Scar release therapy is a standard component of follow-up appointments with me if your case requires it!

If you
▪️Are 30-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM me to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

A day off, but make it a work day!

Wednesdays I’m not in clinic with clients, but I’m definitely working.

Here’s what I accomplished on my “day off”:

- Dunkin coffee run duh 💁🏻‍♀️
- Household chores (dishes, laundry, online shopping returns, light meal prep)
- Social media posts
- Scheduling follow-up clients
- New client phone calls
- Website edits
- Booked a corporate client
- A ton of personal & business texts
- Cardio
- Ran business errands
- Quick chiro visit (yes I see one from time to time!)
- Grocery shopping
- Fill up the truck
- Consulting work

This client presented with tightness that started at the base of her head and went down her neck into her traps and shoulder.

Her upper cervical flexion test showed limitation, so we treated the occipital nerve at the re**us capitis posterior muscles.

This treatment looks a little intense, but it usually feels amazing!

When these small muscles at the base of skull become restricted, they can irritate the occipital nerve, contributing to pain that starts in the upper neck and radiates into the back or top of the head.

If you
▪️Are 30-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

Tight traps that never go away?

The spinal accessory nerve helps control the trapezius muscle, and when the tissue surrounding this nerve becomes restricted, it can contribute to persistent tension, aching, and even burning throughout the upper shoulder and neck.

If you’ve been stretching your neck, cracking it, or rolling your shoulders over and over without lasting relief, the problem may be the tissue affecting the nerve.

Restoring movement where the restriction exists helps increase range of motion and decrease symptoms.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

Allow me to introduce you to my cleaning crew.

Every day there’s something to do around here…and honestly, I love it. 💁🏻‍♀️

How I make it through a 9 hour hands-on day.

The Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien Grit Bar has an angled point and a beveled edge that feel amazing, especially on my flexors which get worked a ton between bodywork and the gym.

We learn to do long, slow strokes to feel the vibration of tissue and detect any junction adhesion. It my opinion, this method also burns less so it’s what I do most often on myself.

I stop after I start to see light petechiae or redness.

If you work with your hands, you need this!

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life

This client is a life-long athlete and presented with a persistently hypertonic upper trap and soft tissue restriction at the right rotator cuff.

Upper cervical flexion at intake was at 52%.

We treated the occipitals, SCM, scalenes, pec minor, subscap, teres minor, and worked along the dorsal scapular nerve to promote physiological change in the area for better nerve glide and shoulder complex movement.

At test out, we had increased upper cervical flexion by 5 degrees.

If you
▪️Are 25-60 years old
▪️Have had pain for 6+ months
▪️Seen 2-3 other providers with no results…

📩 DM “PAIN” to see if your symptoms are a good fit for treatment

⚠️ Nerve entrapments and scar tissue adhesion are one of the most overlooked causes of chronic pain

What’s adhesion?
🔎 Adhesion is a glue-like scar tissue that sticks muscles, nerves, and soft tissue together, limiting movement, creating compensations, and causing pain.

I use Dr. Chris “Adhesion Advocate” Stepien and Dolphin Neurostim to
▪️Find the nerve entrapments and adhesion causing you pain
▪️Treat it with precise manual and microcurrent point stimulation therapy
▪️Get you back to living your life