A Case Study: A female lawyer in her late 20s, high stress, jaw pain, and migraines.

Oct 11

2 min read

From time to time, I will talk about a client I work with and the Danaher Method approach I use with them.

Here's the Client Profile for this feature:

Presenting Traits:

Migraines 2-3x month
TMJ, dentist recently prescribed mouth guard
Forward head posture and very tight in upper-traps, chest, shoulders
Hard for her to pick her head of from laying down (e.g. a nod & curl), her ribcage/thoracic spine is pretty locked up from work
Self described “weak butt” and tight thru hips, glutes also weak in these areas
Posture presents as pelvis thrusted forward, rounded shoulders.

THE DANAHER METHOD APPROACH TO THIS CLIENT:

In Our Session Together We:

Addressed her jaw and upper-trap tension via fascia release with yoga balls
Introduced her to Pilates movements for her spine and posture, lengthening and decompression is the goal.
It’s hard for her to pick her head up from supine (it hurts her neck) so we moved through ribcage & thoracic spine mobility.
Introduced her to a strength training routine that she can do 1x a week outside of our sessions - goal is to be consistent and slowly progress.

Based on our session together, I recommend:

We will meet 1x week and focus the session on mobility, fascia release & Pilates.
Then she will perform a strength training routine on her own that we will check in on every 3 weeks to make sure she feels good about the technique and to add progressions.