1) Orthopedic Rehabilitation—Principles of Pain Alleviation
Our modern world is saturated with information, with infinite demands, pressures and burdens.
We all work a great deal, and we try to meet our expectations to develop academically, to meet our families’ needs and, once in a while, to have some time for our hobbies and peace of mind.
This pressure creates an excessive burden on our bodies, and is expressed in changes in our capacity to function and our muscles’ range of motion. Today, there is a great deal of research that shows how tension and stress affect our bodies. Our brain has developed over millions of years of evolution to deal with physical “threats,” and it interprets emotional or mental “threats” in the same fashion. The brain can prepare the body for war, for defense, or for escape. The changes the brain makes are totally physical, whether it’s muscle cramps, momentarily increased hearing, or the transfer of blood from less essential systems such as the stomach to the muscle systems, among other changes.
From this we understand that physical and mental/emotional tensions create the same bodily reactions and can create the same pain.
90% of our bodies’ pain comes from our muscles and the muscle fascia, that soft and transparent tissue connected to every muscle in our body, which is also largely responsible for the functioning of the body’s ability to move.
Modern medicine is increasingly recognizing that the fascia is the source of most pain, and that treatment should focus on releasing and moving that fascia as part of the body’s movement system.
Orthopedic Rehabilitation treats exactly this issue and utilizes the most advanced techniques and tools known today:
– Trigger point therapy
– Kinsiotex therapy
– Posture-Movement diagnosis
The results of Orthopedic Rehabilitation are quick and alleviate a wide range of types of pain, such as:
– Knee pain, headaches, toothaches, neck pains, whiplash, frozen shoulder and shoulder pain in general, tennis elbow, golf elbow, TCS, back pain, disk protrusion, disk rupture, sciatica, anxieties and fears, foot pain, and more…
Treatment is based on a comprehensive and accurate diagnosis, which includes understanding the pressures that the patient experiences in their lives, their lifestyle, and the development of a treatment plan whose purpose is to reduce the pain by returning the organ or muscles in question to full movement.
During the treatment, the patient learns the principles of correct posture, learns personally prescribed exercises, and learns to manage the pain cycle in such a way that after only a number of treatments, the patient understands his body sufficiently so that he can manage his day-to-day life without pain.
2) Prevention, dissipation, and dealing with pain
Dealing with pain is an exhausting and tiring process that demands tremendous amounts of energy and creates feelings of fatigue, anxiety, lassitude and sometimes all of these together.
It doesn’t matter whether the pain was caused by injury, trauma, an illness or any other cause. Pain triggers bodily processes which cause muscles to contract, chemical changes in the brain, and the movement of different fluids, which cause tiredness, illness, agitation of trigger points and additional physiological and emotional processes.
Treatment whose aim is to prevent and dissipate pain requires the correct approach to the entire bodily and emotional system in order to provide the patient with the necessary tools to deal with the pain, to reduce it and to build a basis for responding to the pain so that the treatment will remain in effect and last.
Every person who comes for Orthopedic Rehabilitation treatment, whether he is an athlete, a farmer, or a software engineer, is unique. My wealth of experience with cyclists, for instance, has taught me that there is no bicycle rider whose situation is the same as another’s, whether it be his physiology, his emotional processes, or his genetics. Therefore, it doesn’t matter whether the patient complains of a headache or pains in the palms, or an inflamed ligament. The treatment must be focused on the entire person as a holistic and unique system.
Every Orthopedic Rehabilitation treatment begins with a thorough personal diagnosis in order to understand and get to know the person in front of me, and understand the system of pressures and emotions in their life and the way in which they manage them.
Only afterwards do I move on to the various muscle and movement examinations in order to discover restrictions in the range of muscle movement, and to the treatment itself, Orthopedic Rehabilitation, which includes trigger neutralization, fascia release, and providing tools for the patient to deal with and dissipate their pain.
Orthopedic Rehabilitation uses the most advanced tools in the world, such as trigger point therapy and Kinsiotext therapy, and is a central part of the Integrative Medicine approach.
3) Givon Peled—Personal Information, Experience and More
For over 10 years I have been treating back pain, practicing Orthopedic Rehabilitation, teaching massage techniques, and working as a consultant on the establishment, management and improvement of treatment centers.
Educational experience:
– Holistic Swedish Massage at Synergia Contact Professions School
– Two year Tui Na program at Synergia Contact Professions School
– Orthopedic Rehabilitation massage in the “trigger point therapy” approach at the Derech Hagav Center, TPT.
– Kinesio taping therapy at the Rehabilitation Department at Tel HaShomer Hospital
– Life line technique, a specialization as part of a continued education program with Drs. Bayne and Weisman
– Reiki, including master prection and Kundalini Reiki with the late Liz Elimelech
– Massage for pregnant women at the Lev Hamaga Center
– Massage for babies at the Lev Hamaga Center
– Warm stones massage continued education program at the Amour Treatment Center
– Anatomy, physiology and pathology studies with Dr. Boaz Ron
– Teaching internship at the Derech Hagav Center
Treatment experience:
– I have been treating people since 2001 both independently and in treatment centers in the Dan area (central Israel).
– Treatment of ADHD patients with medical oversight
– Treatment of fibromyalgia patients with medical oversight
– Long-term treatment of polio patients
– Long-term treatment of myotonic dystrophy patients
– Treatment of multiple sclerosis patients
– Treatment specialization in back pain alleviation and Orthopedic Rehabilitation
– Practicing Orthopedic Rehabilitation treatment at the Herzeliya Pituah clinic
– Practicing Orthopedic Rehabilitation treatment at the “Enough Pain” specialist clinic, posture Orthopedic Rehabilitation and athlete rehabilitation
– Practicing Orthopedic Rehabilitation at the Even Yehuda Doctors’ Center
Business experience:
– 2001-2002 founded and led the Synergia treatment center in Tel Aviv
– 2003-2009 planned, founded and managed the Amour treatment center
– 2004 planned and founded Papaya, treatment practitioners for women after birth at hospitals
– BA in Business Administration at the Rupin Management College
– Business consultant for establishing and managing independent treatment centers at the Center for Entrepreneurial Ventures
– Desk manager at the Spa Marker project
– Collaborated on the establishment of the website for the Massage Association
Teaching experience:
– Teaching internship at Swedish massage courses in the Derech Hagav Center
– Teaching internship in medical massage courses in the Derech Hagav Center
– Taught holistic massage at the Derech Hagav Center
– Taught holistic massage at the Rupin College.
– Taught “The Next Step to Success” personal coaching workshops for practitioners
– Taught self-massage and pain dissipation workshops for companies and private individuals
– Taught posture, ergonomic and basic Orthopedic Rehabilitation workshops in numerous treatment centers throughout the country.
Personal and general:
– Graduate of the MaMRaM IDF elite computing unit.
– CEO of the Segev Construction Company 1993-1999
– Married to Hadar and father to Yair and Noam
