Meet Dr. Jason Liu, originally from Hubei, he joined the UP team nearly two years ago. Like many of our staff he is passionate about sports – he is passionate about bodybuilding – so when he’s not at work you can often find him lifting weights. His personal experience has also helped him to better understand his patients needs, as he explains below:

After years of hard bodybuilding training, I was left with tons of injury and pain, but when I started trying manipulative therapy, I could feel my body healing.

This is what led me to be a manipulative medicine specialist, focusing on the osteopathic practice. 

In the first few years of my practice, I worked and studied with a talented chiropractor: Dr.Jae Son Lee. He taught me about both osteopathy and chiropractic care. The main role of the chiropractic/osteopathic practice is to restore proper motion within the joint, so I can help my colleges with any patients who have joint motion restriction. For patients who are afraid of joint cracking, I can support them with gentle, classical osteopathic joint mobilizations. 

Then there are other types of patients, like those who are hyper-mobile, which would typically be referred to PTs, or patients with multiple trigger points referred to TCM doctors.

Likewise, orthopedic doctors are good at seeking the pathology behind the patient’s pain; they are really helpful with avoiding risks and finding red flags.

I specialize in Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy, which is very similar to Chiropractic adjustment, especially with special techniques like high-velocity thrusting.

Additionally, I use strain-counterstrain (SCS), which is a very gentle, hands-on manual therapy technique, as well as, soft tissue techniques, which can help with soft tissue injuries, such as a pulled muscle. Additional types of support I offer are Cranial Osteopathy, which  helps with headaches and neck pain and Visceral Osteopathy which helps with breathing and digestion and some internal medicine issues.

To put it briefly, I mainly focus on treating spinal and chronic pain, like tension headaches, migraines, neck and back pain, disc herniation, Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ ) pain, and sacroiliac joint pain.

For myself, I’m more comfortable with sub-acute or chronic pain patients, so the biggest challenges are those patients who have really acute pain. They just don’t have much room for chiropractic adjustment. Instead a better choice for them would be osteopathic manipulation, acupuncture or even medication.

After years of practice, I think the most powerful experiences come from treating patients with love and support, and truly focusing on the patients’ descriptions of their symptoms and pain.

People can feel the difference if you are supporting them with good care and love, or not; and this does affect the results with your patients. Treating patients as your brothers or sisters or other family members will double your results.

And of course, there is the fact that patients know their body’s better than you, So listening carefully to how they describe their pain can help with successful diagnoses and treatment.

I think the best approach to recovery and/or healing is to keep moving. Human beings are animals; we need to move, we need to do exercise. That’s one of the best ways to improve your health, which leads to you living a pain-free life.