Madeline provides private physical therapy services to residents and visitors of Hawaii Island. If you are interested in group exercises click here to view the class schedule.
For her Bachelor of Science degree, Madeline attended the University of Oregon, graduating in 2008 cum laude with departmental honors and minors in both German and the Robert D. Clark Honors College. While a student at U of O, Madeline studied abroad twice, spending three months learning about Australian History and Culture at the Australian National University and a year in Konstanz, Germany deepening her German language skills and immersing in the European culture.
Also while a student at the U of O, Madeline had the opportune privilege to work with Drs. Marjorie Woollacott, Sandra Saavedra and Penny Butler on her Honors College thesis titled, “Reliability of Segmental Assessment of Spinal Control (SASCo).” This team later revised this work and published it as an article in the Pediatric Physical Therapy journal in Fall 2010, and received the Tony Long Award for best manuscript of the year. This experience was an early honor for Madeline to be a part of research in her field and gain experience with both typically developing infants and children with Cerebral Palsy to inspire her future graduate focus in Neuro Rehab.
Link to: Reliability of Segmental Assessment of Spinal Control (SASCo)
Continuing Education
Madeline continues to further her education with coursework from the Postural Restoration Institute, influencing her land-based exercise interventions with patients and clients suffering from common and chronic orthopedic issues such a low back, hip, knee, shoulder, neck and foot pain. Incorporating thorough knowledge under this school of thought, Madeline helps to identify habitual loading patterns through these joints in the body and retrain how the neuromuscular system works together with continuous oxygen input (the breath). This offers an opportunity to rest from these overutilized patterns by activating weaker pathways in the brain, coming back to a place of neutrality, or balance in the body.
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