AcuPoint Release™ Technique

Point Release™ Technique in the Car by Ashley Osier MA, HHE, CPS, CSMT, CAMT, CAYT, CWHP  ~ Holistic Wellness for Mind, Body, and Spirit ~ Tip of the Day When more time opens up, I will be able to post regular short videos on posture and pain management techniques, but for now, enjoy this tip to improve your posture, decrease pain and increase overall energy while you are in the car. If you don't have a tennis ball, I encourage you to get one and keep it handy in your car at all times. Your body will love you for it! In addition to enjoying this video, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If you are celebrating Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, I want to extend a blessing for your special time of the year as well. God bless everyone! Joyfully,                Ashley Ashley Osier is a  holistic health educator and therapist, stress management therapist, corrective posture and exercise specialist, an acupressure and massage therap

Keeping Your Neck Pain Free By  Ashley Osier MA, HHE, CPS, CSMT, CAMT, CAYT, CWHP ~ Holistic Wellness for Mind, Body, and Spirit ~ Chronic neck pain plagues hundreds of thousands of people in our society. Through my education and experience in working with clients in chronic pain from conditions and injuries and with my own chronic pain issues over the past 20 years, I continue to find the need to empower individuals with tools to be good stewards of their own pain management to be critical. The following is from the American Academy of Pain Medicine. "Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. The chart below depicts the number of chronic pain sufferers compared to other major health conditions."  facts on pain Condition Number of Sufferers Source Chronic Pain 100 million Americans Institute of Medicine of The National Academies ( 2 ) Diabetes 25.8 million Americans (diagnosed and estimated undiagnosed) American D

Point Release™ Technique in the Hospital Setting By Ashley Redford MA, HHE, CSMT, CAMT, CAYT, CWHP   It brings me great joy to live in a body that is fifteen years older and no longer limited  by moment-to-moment pain. There is nothing like being in a hospital for an extended time and being in pain. Many hospitals do not provide adequate pain management, costs for pain management can be astronomical, the beds are not long-term friendly, and the staff are not always available to assist you when it is needed. The Traditional Chinese Medical benefits of PRT with pain symptoms are an excellent option for patients who are hospitalized. I have applied PRT to clients in wheelchairs as well, but sensory recognition and muscular control are key components to PRT when practicing solo. Assisted applications can also be used in a hospital setting, but I am going to focus on solo application for now. One story is about an 80-something man who had been admitted with pneumonia. H

Enjoy this short trailer of my students and I practicing PRT.

By  Ashley Osier MA, HHE, CPS, CSMT, CAMT, CAYT, CWHP  ~ Holistic Wellness for Mind, Body, and Spirit ~ As I continue to work with clients and students on reducing pain symptoms, correcting postural discrepancies and conditioning the body, I am seeing more and more people, who have never worked with me, using a ball on their body for pain relief. Some are using a lacrosse ball, a racquetball ball, a baseball, a golf ball, balls with nubs and balls with spikes. I am also seeing more classes using one or two balls to "tune up" the body or the roll out the body. In researching the use of various tools for the Point Release™ Technique, I found that hard balls are not as effective as the slight give of the tennis ball. People who are not skilled with using a harder object on the muscles, tendons or ligaments can end up bruising the tissue or the skeletal structure, depending upon the thinness of one's body. Using a ball on the body is a great way to rel