Dr. Lindsay Hammersmith PT, DPT
The MTY focus on body awareness, breath awareness and spinal neutral through the yoga couch provides a powerful platform to address each individual through a biopsychosocial lens, while also...
The MTY focus on body awareness, breath awareness and spinal neutral through the yoga couch provides a powerful platform to address each individual through a biopsychosocial lens, while also...
In the outpatient orthopedic physical therapy setting, I have been able to witness the successes of MTY in two different models.The first is through 1-on-1 hour-long appointments. In these sessions,...
“I wish I knew then what I know now.”How many times have we all said that? I believe that everything happens for a reason and I probably needed to be seasoned. But as a practicing physical...
With my training in Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY), I have found my professional missing link. Ginger Garner has taken the art and philosophy of yoga and looked at it through the eyes of of medical...
The use of Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) has transformed my physical therapy practice by emphasizing the use of education, self-awareness, and self-empowerment with my patients, thereby enabling...
Through combining physical therapy and MTY, patients will be able to achieve a better awareness of allostasis in order to encourage a sense of equanimity. Teaching patients that certain stressors...
Let’s take a patient to use as an example of how I utilize MTY as a PT. This patient is a mother of two, who has been experiencing severe low back pain (LBP) & radicular symptoms for eight...
MTY synergizes with the current, mainstream practice of PT. It builds on a solid framework to evaluate & treat movement issues using standardized assessments & evidence based treatment...
The focus with MTY is on stress resilience through meditation, self-care habits, breathwork, mindful movement and awareness, self reflection, and nutrition.If stress can be managed more effectively...
I was first drawn to Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) by a desire to provide safe and biomechanically sound yoga by training with a neuromuscular expert. However, what I learned was much more, as...
The Biopsychosocial model (BPS) is a multi-centered methodology that focuses on 5 areas of healing: psychoemotional-social, energetic, intellectual, physical and spiritual. (Garner 14). From a...
Over the course of my professional career I have been striving to find the best treatment method that would make the biggest impact on my patients.Almost 20 years, and many continuing education...