Philosophy of Health & Healing

Health: (n.)
“Uninhibited Responsiveness”
Center Point was founded upon this rarely used definition of health.
Mainstream sources like Mariam-Webster, Oxford, and Britannica all state the definition of health as the absence of disease.
But how can we truly understand health and how to reclaim it when the only thing we can point to is what it’s not?
If health is "not diseased," then when a manual therapist works with your body to restore health, what are they working with?
You can start to see how the traditional definition becomes problematic here.
With health defined as “uninhibited responsiveness,” Center Point’s highly attuned therapists work with your body’s very subtle responses to touch and environment. Even when responsivity is highly inhibited, there is still a response of some kind that can reveal the source of inhibition and inform about what is needed to intervene.
Effective manual therapists do not "work on" the body - they "work with" the body.
Beyond applying protocols and techniques, an experienced therapist’s job is to sense, interpret, and manipulate the existing response patterns of your body, in order to restore homeostatic response.

“Life gives us so much to respond to – the fact that the body sometimes gets confused and struggles as it interprets how to respond to daily strain and traumatic events isn’t strange at all.
It would be more strange to meet a person who has never experienced this.”
Meet Our Founder
Nick Forsberg is a career manual therapist who applies highly skilled techniques through an intense sensory connection and conversation with the body. He often works with people who have lengthy, complicated histories of dysfunction.
Nick practices what he calls “Holographic Therapy,” where he treats every part of the body as the whole. He most often integrates the modalities he applies, believing that we’re doing the body a confusing disservice by slicing it into parts and fractioning out each modality we use on it.
Nick’s client outcomes speak to the success of this mode, and those who have exhausted other methodologies often experience relief from this unique approach.

Healthcare vs. Sick-care
If you’re a responsible owner of a vehicle, there are two different reasons you call your mechanic – for repair once things go wrong, and for maintenance so that fewer things go wrong.
Your responsibility as the owner of a body is the same.

Remedial Therapy
When person-to-person relationships experience strain, the first and most important step toward a remedy is listening. Your body requires the same. Work with a therapist who goes beyond the standard of “performing” protocols, and has the finely tuned palpation skills needed to pick up on the subtle messages being communicated by your body’s various systems.

Hygienic Therapy
A healthy, responsive body has systems that communicate with each other. But sometimes one system gets so involved in compensating for a minor environmental insult, it gets out of touch with the rest. Unaddressed, this can create a feedback loop that mimics a parasite. This analogy often gets a laugh, but monkeys understand something we don’t – that our bodies are attuned to therapeutic touch, and sometimes you just need someone to regularly “pick the fleas off.”

Tuning In
It’s easy to become disconnected with your body’s signals. Most of us aren’t taught how to be in touch with them. It’s ok if you’re not sure how to tune in. CPH therapists are trained not only to provide you with external care, but also to teach you how to connect interroceptively with your body, so you can play a more active role in your healing process.
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2765 12th St. SE
Salem, Oregon
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(503) 999-8796