Jennifer Weiss, Osteopathic Physician

Bioidentical Hormones

Exercise Instructions

This page is under construction – more exercise links are coming soon!

  • FulfordExercises

  • Clam Shell

    • Usually recommended for low back pain and strengthening the hip rotators, gluteus muscles.

    • Lift up and down each to a count of three – if you go as fast as the man in the video you will not get the full benefit of the exercise.
    • Different positions work different muscles – see the video on neutral position on the same page.
    • Start with 5 per side – work up to 20 or 30 per side. The better your form the harder it is to do.

  •  Windshield Wipers

  • Toe curls

  • Towel Roll toe exercises

  • Opening shoulder exercise

The fundamental principle advocated in cranial technique, viz: allowing the physiological function within to manifest its unerring potency, rather than the application of blind force from without. William G. Sutherland, D.O.

Do not try to force anything within the cranial mechanism. ~A.T. Still

Along in 1874, after years of independent thinking, there came to Dr. Still the concept of Osteopathy ~ Dr. Asa Willard in the Cranial Bowl

Here you lay aside the long words, and use your mind in deep and silent earnestness; drink deep from the eternal fountain of reason, penetrate the forests of that law whose beauties are life and death. ~ A.T. Still

All diseases are mere effects, the cause being a partial or complete failure of the nerves to properly conduct the fluids of life. ~ A.T. Still

Everything in Osteopathy is true
—James Jealous

Freedom is experienced in the infinite number of pauses.  ~Rollo May

Spirit in osteopathy turns out to be scientific, practical, and very useful in a medical medel that Osteopathic Physicianscan readily abide by. ~ From interface; Mechanisms of Spirit in Osteopathy by A.T. Still

It is the stillness of the Tide, not the stormy waves that bounce upon the shore that is the potency, the power. ~ W.G Sutherland

Man should study and use the drugs compounded in his own body. ~A.T. Stills

It is the stillness of the tide not the stormy waves that bounce upon the shore that is the potency, the power. ~ W.G. Sutherland

What is harmony but Health?  It takes harmony of every nerve, vein and artery in every part of the body. ~ A.T. Still

The breath of life in the cerebrospinal fluid Tide is the fundamental principal in the primary respiratory mechanism. ~ W.G Sutherland

The hearing of spirit is not limited… the whole being listens.  There is a direct grasp of what is right before you, that can never be heard with the ear, or understood with the mind. ~ Thomas Merton

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air. ~ William Wordsworth

Harmony only dwells where obstructions do not exist
—A.T. Still

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
—Thomas Edison

It is as if the whole body, functioning as a unit, is responding to a force similar to that moving the tides of the ocean. ~ Rollin Becker

Normal doesn’t simply mean a readjustment of the bones to normal position. ~ A.T. Stills

The greatest mistake in the treatment of disease is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~ Plato

I believe that all the remedies necessary to health are within the human body. ~ A.T. Stills