Trisoma® - Background and Bio
Trisoma® is the name for our blend of three primary styles of therapeutic bodywork,
concentrating on:
with occasional
friction and other
Sports Massage and therapeutic techniques
when desired.
Paul has also received great reviews for
Swedish Massage, and is once again taking new clients for this modality.
Paul has over 30 years of experience in massage, beginning as amateur intuitive bodywork on friends and relatives, leading to professional work at Physical Therapists and Hospitals, having earned certificates in over a dozen modalities from specialists, and 4.0 GPA pre-med and other classes in colleges.
Paul Svacina was a "rocket scientist" and a licensed Professional Engineer, while learning bodywork in
Europe
and
the USA.
His formal massage training began in the 1990's at the
University of California at Santa Barbara, and most of his studies were
completed at the
Santa Barbara Body Therapy
Institute, where he was also a Teaching Assistant.
Through broad training, practice on athletes,
dancers, nurses
and office workers; and
pro-bono work
and educating others, Paul discovered that various bodywork modalities can be surprisingly powerful complements to
diet, exercise and
rest
in helping people take
control of their well-being.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Aerospace Engineering from
Texas A&M University,
specializing in
spacecraft
dynamics
and
high speed aerodynamics,
Paul was employed as a "rocket scientist" in the defense industry designing, testing and manufacturing spacecraft systems,
and later administering and inspecting construction of
highway bridges
as a licensed
Civil Engineer
for
Caltrans.
Intricate analysis and instrumentation are required to produce such work.
However in the 1980's while visiting a small village in
Moravia
(a region in the
Czech
Republic
next to
Bohemia),
Paul saw a construction crew arrive and one man with two copper rods began walking irregularly about the road. The man suddenly stopped, bent over and marked the road with chalk, and then a backhoe excavated a pipe underneath. Such events and people showed that there is more to nature, and more to human bodies, than has been taught in school, measured by scientific instruments or interpreted by many people's senses.
While inspecting a
bridge being built, a
log
rolled onto Paul's leg. After limping for 3 months at work, his back and leg became affected such that he could not even sit without pain.
Conventional medical treatment, which concentrated on pain medication and physical therapy of the lower back and leg muscles
(primarily
Peroneus Brevis), did not relieve the pain for a year while function and athletic performance declined sharply.
One day Paul was helping a ballroom dancer relieve her migraine, when she convinced him that he should share the work with others. This inspired Engineer Paul to take a
Sports Massage class from John Harris, the Olympic Masseur and Myofascial Pain educator, to gain more therapeutic and technical competence in such specialties.
Paul realized that incipient migraine pain and his chronic pain were actually referred from
myofascial trigger points,
and that the pain could be removed quickly using bodywork.
In fact, Paul's first clinic client, who entered the clinic with debilitating sciatic pain, walked out fixed, praising the effects of the work.
Apparently there was scientific basis and evidence for the many headaches and other chronic pain that he had relieved since childhood, and that he could easily perceive therapeutic exigencies and effects. Paul was encouraged that he could help himself and others relieve pain, and increase performance and function after medical treatment had failed.
Adding more knowledge to his sensory capabilities, soon dancers and athletes encouraged him to pursue a career in this field.
Paul Svacina, P.E. maintains a private practice, and has worked at
David Dallmeyer, P.T.,
Laguna Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Clinic, the Spine Care Center,
Corporate Touch,
Cottage Hospital,
Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara;
is published in a book, several articles and featured in interviews;
and holds 4.0 GPA in pre-med anatomy and other classes at
SBCC
and
UCSB.
Due to education as an Aerospace Engineer, Paul skeptically analyzes claims made by others, before accepting them, and refers to research studies when possible. Unlike some other therapists' strange claims, we will not reference tachyons,
quantum physics,
centrifugal nor centripetal forces as part of our treatment (although Watsu and
acro-yoga
do employ the latter two.)
