Lucas Health Solutions
 

the lucas method

 
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The Lucas Method - was developed over Shelli's 40 years of professional maturity and understanding of the human structure.

  • The Lucas Method takes a unique 5-pronged approach to pain and injury management, which will allow you to return to work and leisure activities that you have put aside because of your pain.

  • Personalized method of treatment that can improve your posture, lessen (and sometimes eliminate) your pain, and restore the ‘old you’ so you can participate in your daily activities again

  • The Lucas Method works for the most complex, therapy-resisted cases because its different than conventional therapy techniques.

 
 

 5 PILLARS OF THE LUCAS METHOD

The Lucas Method takes a unique 5-pronged approach to pain and injury management, which will allow you to return to work and leisure activities that you have put aside because of your pain. 

 
 

The Lucas Method works for the most complex, therapy-resisted cases because its different than conventional therapy techniques.

 
 
Before-and-after posture photos of a senior woman showing improvement through The Lucas Method.

 evaluate the body

An individualized treatment plan will be designed based on your results.

Therapist applying hands-on structural treatment to a patient's shoulder.

Soft Tissue treatment

Fix the body through hands-on structural work.

Hand with kinesiotape applied to support healing after manual therapy.

Kinesiotape & Splinting

After the hands-on treatment, we train the body using kinesiotape or custom splinting & bracing.

 
Hand squeezing a therapy ball as part of a custom at-home strengthening program.

Stretching & Strengthening Program

Your custom at-home program to integrate the structural body changes that were done during the manual treatment.

Woman at a computer during ergonomic workstation evaluation to reduce pain and improve posture.

Ergo Evaluation

Assessment of your work and leisure activities that may be the root-source of your pain. Maintain a good posture by modifying your environment.

 

OUR EXPERTISE

Shelli's treatment approach comes from a unique perspective after 40 years and four professions:

  • occupational therapy

  • hand therapy

  • structural integration

  • ergonomics  

 
Close-up of an elderly person holding their painful wrist, illustrating chronic pain.

the lucas method approach

Shelli has developed a unique treatment approach for dealing with pain and disability, The Lucas Method.  This is an integrated treatment approach for dealing with myofascial pain and functional impairment that has otherwise gone unhealed.

Shelli started her career as an occupational therapist where the whole person is treated, not simply the area of injury. She quickly found her place in the area of orthopedics and decided that specializing in hand & upper extremity therapy was her calling. While working at the Naval Hospital San Diego, treating young men and women with devastating-multi-joint injuries, she combined her roots as an OT and specialization as a hand therapist, and sought to further her education with treatment approaches that would incorporate the whole body along with the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder injuries.  That is when Shelli found structural integration, a hands-on body manipulation, developed by Ida P. Rolf over 50 years ago. It works on the connective tissue (fascia) to release, realign and balance the whole body.

But she found without modifying postural habits or correcting poorly designed work spaces, all the treatment in the world wouldn't become permanent. So along with treatment, she included assessment and modification of work and leisure-time activities.

To complete the process, Shelli designs a personal stretching / strengthening program for home to integrate the structural body changes made during the manual treatment session. Finally, she uses kinesiotaping techniques and custom bracing to train the body to hold the changes made during the treatment.

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