Holistic Pain Management

We offer scientifically based therapies to help your body use its natural resources to fight disease and better manage the side effects of medical treatments. Choices of complementary therapies to increase comfort, enhance healing, and improve overall health.

Holistic Pain Management Clinic

Dr. Rudy Kachmann and his expert staff at the Kachmann Mind Body Institute are committed to helping individuals manage chronic pain and the negative effects of stress by taking control of their health and well-being through a self-care approach. Patients find an increased sense of control, a reduction of pain, and even the elimination of some conditions through our mind-body programs. Schedule a visit with Dr. Kachmann today to begin your journey in healing.

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Gentle Restorative Yoga

This program teaches individuals passive, gentle yoga postures that are profoundly relaxing and deeply rejuvenating. Students learn to use various props--blankets, pillows, bolsters, and therapeutic balls--to manage pain. Students also learn to use meditations, visualizations, guided imagery, and breathing techniques to bring the mind and body into a deep state of relaxation. This causes the body to move into the Relaxation Response and allows the parasympathetic nervous system to produce wonderful healing hormones. Restorative Yoga brings about relief for those with chronic back pain, hypertension, migraines, insomnia, range-of-motion limitations, degenerative disc, and many other ailments. This program can be taken in a group or private setting. Come enjoy the healing effects of Restorative Yoga!

Wednesdays 6-6:45pm Lutheran Hospital Campus, Thursdays 5:30-6:15, Fridays 9:30-10:30am Downtown.

yoga therapy

Yoga is an ancient, eastern practice meaning union. It teaches us to take responsibility for our own health through the union of postures (asanas), breathing (pranayama), relaxation and meditation. This union helps us to achieve self-awareness and balance.

Yoga therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the Yoga therapist, implements a personalized and evolving Yoga practice, that not only addresses the illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate his/her suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending upon the nature of the illness, Yoga therapy can not only be preventative or curative, but also serve a means to manage the illness, or facilitate healing in the person at all levels.

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tai chi fundamentals (TCF)

The Tai Chi Fundamentals program (TCF)3 offers a clear system for learning basic tai chi moves that are natural, efficient, and safe, and have applications for therapy, function, and wellness. Developed by tai chi instructor and article coauthor Tricia Yu, MA, in collaboration with Jill Johnson, MS, PT, GCS, it features instruction in tai chi’s movement patterns, their biomechanics, therapeutic and functional applications, and guidelines for documenting tai chi as a therapeutic modality. The program includes instruction in the mind/body integration components of tai chi, with focus on diaphragmatic breathing, and provides guidelines for staying relaxed and alert while in motion. The movement sequence follows a motor development progression and can be used as tools for both patient assessment and intervention.

Mondays 6:00-7:00pm - Lutheran Hospital Campus Location

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Meditation

Meditation is an extremely powerful practice. It has the potential to bring about happiness, healing, relaxation and profound change in negative thought patterns. In this class you will learn to relax fully, release stress, and learn to become of observer of self. Meditation teaches you effective ways of to deal with difficult emotions, such as anger and selfishness, and promotes techniques that develop compassion and love. Meditation is a gift not just for you but for everyone else you interact with each day. Happiness brings about good health and studies show that people who consider themselves happy have one-tenth the rate of serious illness and untimely death compared to those who consider themselves unhappy. Learn walking, laughing, and loving kindness meditations just to name a few. In addition you will learn meditation postures, breath awareness, mindfulness and mantras.

Wednesdays 9:00-9:20am - Lutheran Hospital Campus Location

Medical Massage

Medical/clinical massage is an outcome-based treatment specifically targeted to address conditions that have been diagnosed by an appropriate health care professional. Medical Massage is used as an aspect of a total treatment program (example: massaging specifically for Rotator Cuff Syndrome, Whiplash, Sciatica, Carpel Tunnell, etc). Medical massage focuses on those specific conditions as opposed to an all over relaxation or deep tissue massage.

Spinal reflex analysis (SRA)

A safe, fast, non-invasive and profoundly effective way to eliminate muscle and joint pain, increase freedom and ease of movement and maximize physical performance in both athletics and activities of daily living. Developed by Dr. Frank Jarrell of Spinal Reflex Institute Intl, SRA is the only system to address the most prevalent cause of neuro-musculo-skeletal pain and dysfunction, the Axial Spinal Reflex (ASR's).

Deep Tissue Massage

This technique uses deep muscle massage to affect the sub-layer of musculature and fascia. It helps ease chronic muscle pain and aids in injury rehabilitation. This therapy is often integrated with other massage techniques.

Call today to schedule your session. 260-420-YOGA (9642)