Josette Troxler

My goal is to put you back on path to the healthy lifestyle you seek. I use manual and yoga therapy to address pain and dysfunction in the body’s major systems. I am licensed in California and Idaho.

Contact in Santa Barbara: 805-729-5491

Contact in Boise: 208-343-7700

Treatments
• Integrative Manual Therapy
• Strain-Counterstrain
• Yoga Therapy
• Zero Balancing
• Muscle Energy Technique
• Myofascial Release
• Joint & Soft Tissue Mobilization

About Integrative Manual Therapy

Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT) is a collection of osteopathic, light touch, and indirect manual therapy techniques. This comprehensive health care approach combines structural rehabilitation with specific treatments for each of the major systems of the body.

The first time you receive light touch or indirect manual therapy, you may wonder: Is anything happening? This is because in traditional therapies, it is immediately satisfying to have hands
go directly to your pain. But it does not always translate into “getting better.”

IMT targets the structures we cannot consciously control or pinpoint. For example, swelling. You may not know how or when the swelling came on. And you may not perceive changes in pressure or muscle tension during treatment. But after an IMT treatment, you will feel and look less puffy with improved local tone.

How can such a light touch (about the weight of a nickel) affect the structures in deep locations? Light touch techniques work by creating a fulcrum right at a specific target, reducing mechanical stresses, and initiating a systemwide unwinding. This in turn, restores normal tone to skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, connective tissue, even bone.

Listening with IMT

Recently, I saw a man for shin splints. While I held my hands lightly on his shin he asked “what are you doing?"
"Listening," I answered.
"I don't get it,” he said. “What can you hear with your hands?”
Fact is, pain leaves a unique signature in the tissues of the body. IMT uses light touch to “map” the micro-movements, vibrations, and rhythms coming from tissue, bone, lymph, vessels and organs. By identifying the mechanical stresses and pulls affecting the body, we can priori