In life, it can be easy to fall into bad habits. An injury may lead to a limp, the limp creates bad posture, and that bad posture becomes habitual.
Or it can be subtle–a small change in movement compounded over decades eventually results in other problems, injuries, or chronic pain.
Conventional medicine will focus on treating those conditions through drugs and surgery, but finding the cause requires deeper investigation. It also requires that the patient get involved, make changes, and let time and the body’s natural healing ability do their work.
Bill Boland, creator of the BodyFix Method, works at that level. Along with his team, Boland uses a hybrid of physical therapy techniques to treat the root causes of pain, imbalance, and problems in the muscle, digestive, or nervous systems.
“The basic position that we take is that you didn’t get here overnight. This didn’t just happen,” said Boland.
Our biggest problem as a society, he says, is the inability to look beyond the immediate problem and invest in the real cure.
“There is no quick fix, it is a mindset ... it’s a lifestyle change. And you have to think about it in those terms.”
If you do, there is a solution.
Wisdom Borne of Experience
Boland is 75 years old, with energy that many in their 20s would envy. However, he wasn’t always this way. Twenty years ago, after being an avid athlete and runner all his life, he was in a lot of pain and struggling to even walk.
