Research, Articles & Case Studies

This article is about the many benefits of appropriate physical contact and how simple touch helps us develop into strong and sensitive individuals, provides comfort, calms us, enhances trust and enables us to bond with one another.

This article is about what forest fires and aging have in common, and that forest fires have something to teach us. Forrest Fires offer us a great analogy not only of the population we are referring to, but of a strategy that can help us bring hope and health. 

Former NFL football player Ricky Williams, who played for the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins among other teams, addresses an audience during a conference on medical marijuana at Harvard Medical School.

Marijuana drained running back Ricky Williams' NFL career, but now the same drug may help launch the next phone of his business career. Williams, 40 is launching a cannabis brand called Real Wellness by Ricky Williams. The line will cater to health-conscious consumers, particularly women, who are interested in using alternative medicine to boost wellness, he said.   

  Kerry D'Ambrogio D.O.M., A.P., P.T., D.O.-M.T.P. talks about Total Body Balancing (TBB)

- TBB is based in classical osteopathy

- TBB addresses interconnections and contributing lines of tension

- TBB uses A.R.T.S. to evaluate

- TBB follows a five-phase treatment template

Kerry D’Ambrogio D.O.M., A.P., P.T., D.O.-M.T.P. talks about Joint Balancing. He discusses Whole-Body Evaluation is essential as well as application of Joint Balancing. 

Kerry D’Ambrogio D.O.M., A.P., P.T., D.O.-M.T.P. gives a case study using Muscle Balancing/Positional Release Therapy.

Jack Ryan LMT talks about Total Body Balancing (TBB) and why it is important to start and end each Total Body treatment with evaluation. When you use a combination of evaluation techniques and critical thinking to discover the underlying cause of a person’s dysfunction your treatment approach will be more successful. Kerry talks about the benefits of evaluation.

 Jack Ryan, LMT is the owner of the Soar Point Massage Clinic in Sarasota FL. He is a teaching assistant and instructor for the D’Ambrogio Institute. Jack lectures and teaches on the topics of Total Body Balancing, Muscle Balancing, Joint Balancing and pain-free foam roller techniques. His practice is based on pain relief and rehabilitation.

This article talks about what CranioSacral Therapy is and how it has helped football players address concussion and CTE injuries. 

This article talks about CranioSacral Therapy and CranioSacral Aquatic Therapy.   CranioSacral Aquatic Therapy combines multi-hand therapy, floating, sea water/pool water, giving and receiving, group sharing and altered brain wave states with craniosacral hands-on techniques to produce a unique and powerful healing modality.

Eric talks about his experiences in Upledger CranioSacral Dissection classes and the dissection lab. He talks about his personal and professional stories working with unpreserved cadavers.