Several years ago Capital News Channel 9, now YNN, did a story on Nick. The link is here. http://capitalnews9.com/saratoga-county-news-28-content/61739/a-tune-up-for-the-body 05/20/2004 05:00 AM By: Kristina Krawchuk 
Massage therapist Nick Pavoldi said, "Maybe you have some neck pain, but I may spend that hour at your feet trying to relieve the neck pain because we're working on that structure as a whole." It's the idea behind Structural Integration in Latham. Yes it may look similar to massage, but Pavoldi said it's actually quite different. "Massage works with muscles and it works to kind of relieve tension in the muscles to flush muscles out and things like that. Structural Integration works with the fascia which is what holds your muscles in place. So what I do is release the casing around the muscle," Pavoldi said. It's this deeper work that attracted Kathleen Carroll. Life as a hairdresser started to take its toll about four years ago. "My arms are usually up and I was having this chronic shoulder blade pain," Carroll said. But instead of starting on the back, Nick starts at the hands, opening up the heart and moving from there. Now usually the client wears a bathing suit so Nick can get to the connective tissue. The process is based on a 10-step series with each one building on the last. Each session lasts about an hour and can be scheduled from one a week to one a month -- depending on the body's need. Kathleen has gone through two of these sessions in the past four years and now comes in for tune-up sessions. Carroll said, "I started feeling relief almost immediately from the shoulder blade pain. My mind felt more clear -- it was so much more than just bodywork. I felt more energized, more alive. I mean after just one session it was fun pretty amazing, really." Pavoldi added, "You get a lot of freedom in your body -- so you get to know your body a little bit better. You're able to use your body better afterwards," A rewarding face-lift to help support your overworked body. |