Stop the Pain
A massage therapist shares tried-and-true pain-relieving techniques in this easy-to-follow guide.
Veteran massage therapist Vienna Schmidt has worked with hundreds of people with chronic pain, empowering her clients to take their healing into their own hands. In Stop the Pain, Vienna shares her tried-and-true pain-relieving techniques in an easy-to-follow guide. Pain sufferers can discover: What causes tension, stabbing or burning pain, and knots in the neck and back Strategies that relieve pain—instead of costly therapies that don’t work or don’t last A way to get back to feeling great and sleeping without pain How the brain comes back when the constant pain messages stop Gain power over pain—and feel good again!
Vienna Dunham Schmidt
Vienna Dunham Schmidt has had a lifelong interest in discovery, invention, helpfulness, and problem-solving. These gifts dovetail beautifully in this chapter of her life as a massage therapist. Additional strengths of optimism and ideation help her to believe that the answer to any current challenge is just around the corner. The roots of Vienna’s book, Stop the Pain: Your Hands-On Manual for Neck and Back Release, go back to her college days of helping friends with neck and back aches, even while not yet understanding that this was part of her own destiny. When presented with a unique opportunity to train and work with Massage Envy in massage therapy, she eagerly accepted. Vienna’s curiosity piqued when she began to see a pattern of chronic pain and knots in clients’ mid- and upper backs. Frequently the issues can be traced back to ribs that have been lifted out of position and need muscle tension released so they can go back home. The gentle and effective program that she has innovated has led friends to call her the Rib Whisperer. Vienna currently resides in Olathe, KS.
