I managed to hurt my back somehow while moving house and it got to the point where I was in agony by the end of a work day sitting at my computer. I was recommended to this place by a co-worker who'd been having some back problems, and with nothing to lose, I booked an appointment with Shun Sakai. Shun normally works evenings, which is ideal for folks who work a normal daytime workday, so I was able to drive over after work for an appointment after 6pm.
The first consultation took a little longer than an hour, and Shun had me go through a series of motions, examined my back and range of flexibility, etc, and generally tried to figure out what I'd managed to do to myself. He isolated the problem pretty easily to a couple of vertebrae slightly out of alignment. I'd already seen 2 different massage therapists and an ergonomics consultant at work because of the pain I was having sitting, and all three of them told me different things, and none of them identified the exact problem area the way Shun did. He had a couple of ideas about what might be causing it and how to improve things, and sent me away with some specific stretches to do daily and an appointment to come back within a week. I ended up seeing him maybe 4-5 times over three weeks, each time he'd check up on progress and adjust his suggestions for stretches/exercises to do to get the vertebrae back in place. He also did some kind of massage with a hard metal implement that left my back a little sore but fixed the problem almost entirely. I honestly wasn't expecting my back to get completely back to normal within just a couple of weeks and 10 minutes or less of stretching per day, but a month later I feel completely fine again. Shun also did not try to stretch things out to keep me coming back for more business, when he thought I was back to normal he just said he didn't think he needed to see me any more, but to let him know if any problems returned. I definitely will, but so far so good, and I'm very impressed with how quickly he was able to identify and then resolve the problem. read more