Compression Therapy: A Natural Pain Management Alternative By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Compression is the force of pressure used for reducing volume. Compression therapy utilizes this concept through applying material to your body that has a specific gradient pressure to compensate for any impairment the circulatory or lymphatic system may have. Its purpose is to provide an appropriate force to influence fluid to return to these systems rather than remaining in the skin. Your blood pressure is a commonly known diagnostic tool that is an indicator of how much strength your heart and circulatory system have to move blood freely. […]
Holiday Detox: Use Your Lymphatic System For Better Health By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Starting a new year usually means starting a diet or exercise routine. Choosing which route to take or what activities are going to be right for you can be daunting. With so many fad diets and exercise routines out there, why not try a new routine of influencing your body though its immune system. The lymphatic system is a crucial component in health and wellness It is involved in all aspects of your body’s inner workings and carries out your body’s immune responses through channels that […]
Gluten Gluttony: Surviving The Holidays By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Living gluten free is challenging enough under normal daily circumstances. When you add on the holidays and events, you have a prescription for disaster. Gluten free living continues to grow in popularity and more stores and restaurants are becoming increasingly more aware of the need for gluten free foods. That’s not usually true of holiday parties and the numerous events that take place in season. What is frequently served are the staples of any party, cheese and crackers, baked goods, desserts and oh the pastas! Who doesn’t want to indulge […]
Keeping An Open Mind “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ― Albert Einstein By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Life is ever changing yet when it comes to bad habits, we tend to have difficulty changing. We can get stuck in a routine that’s hard to break free from. You try all the things that you know or believe work to help break a habit yet still it lingers. When nothing you try works, it may be time to step out of the box. Having an open mind means you are receptive to new ideas or arguments. Your […]
Finding Balance Could you benefit from Manual Lymph Drainage…AKA Lymphatic Massage? By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Balance can have a great many meanings. It can be balancing a check book, balancing your tires, work-life balance, nutritional balance .Sometimes we need to look at how our body is balanced. Our blood, organs and tissues all have a certain amount of fluids, oxygen, blood, etc. that they require to keep them working properly. When there is too much or too little of those substances, systems can become burdened. For those of us who find our systems lacking in balance by feeling too […]
Kimberly Burns Of Sensory Intuition Joins REAL Exclusive Magazine. REAL Exclusive Magazine announces that Kimberly Burns Of Sensory Intuition has joined the print/online media publication as a sponsor. Getting the best and most appropriate healthcare and wellness needs can be a difficult process. That’s why having a personal healthcare consultant is so beneficial. I can help you understand your what your personal needs are for pain management, disease management, staying healthy and fit as well as for weight loss or addiction. Having a healthcare consultant researching and advocating for your healthcare needs will help you improve your quality of life […]
Discovering Health: What’s In Your Tool Box? By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Most everyone has a toolbox of some sort. A tool box is generally thought of as a physical area that we keep special tools that you use around your home to maintain and repair household items. It contains different unique tools that you use alone or in conjunction with other tools. A therapist’s tool box may consist of different tests, a variety of therapeutic interventions such as different exercises, knowledge and other tools that we call modalities that we will use to help with a patient’s injury or […]
Inflammation By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Inflammation ….. Latin “inflammo”, meaning “to set on fire, to torch, kindle”…. If you’re living with inflammation, these words have great meaning. Ancient Greeks describe it as the “internal fire”. Imagine walking over burning coals. Now imagine that feeling all over your body. According a MedicalNewsToday.com article, “Inflammation is the body’s attempt at self-protection; the aim being to remove harmful stimuli, including damaged cells, irritants, or pathogens – and begin the healing process” We can recognize inflammation after a cut or injury because the area becomes reddened, hot and often painful yet inflammation isn’t […]
April Is Occupational Therapy Month! What Can Occupational Therapy Do For You? By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT The World Federation of Occupational Therapists provides the following definition of Occupational Therapy: “Occupational Therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and wellbeing through occupation. The primary goal of Occupational Therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational Therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation.” When we hear the word “occupation”, we almost automatically think of something […]
Breathe In A Healthy Lifestyle: It’s A Matter Of Technique By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT Many people know that breathing is important, yet are unaware of the importance of how you breathe. When you think about it, a few key words like “pursed lip breathing” or “deep breathing” may come to mind. An important muscle to breathing is the diaphragm. a body partition of muscle and connective tissue; specifically: the partition separating the chest and abdominal cavities in mammals, according to merriam-webster.com. It assists in breathing through movement. Most of us don’t really know how our breathing apparatus works or […]
Complementary Therapies Are An Invaluable Tool For Wellness By Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a Pain Management/Wellness Practitioner who provides consultations about self therapy techniques that can be done at home. I am a huge proponent of complementary therapies, because they work, both for me and for my clients. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), complementary therapies refer to those utilizing a nonmainstream approach together with conventional medicine. When someone’s illness or disease is managed solely by physicians and prescription drugs, they may be setting […]
Kimberly Burns Now A Certified Lymphedema Therapist. Kimberly Burns, OTR/L, CLT, was recently certified as a Lymphedema Therapist. Lymphedema is the swelling of a body part caused by the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the body which causes chronic inflammation in the tissues of your body. Lymphedema is poorly understood and many doctors and therapists do not have advanced knowledge of the disease and will overlook it as “just swelling”, and that it will go away with a cold pack and elevation of the affected body part. Chronic edema has serious effects on mobility, range of motion and activities of […]
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