I wanted to formally express my gratitude for all that you have done for me. It is hard to find the words to explain how I feel, but I will try my best. You have given me my life back, brought back the fun and freedom that I experienced before the accident, and made me feel like there was always hope.

“Hey Tim! Bula! I just wanted to reach out to you and say thank you for doing such extraordinary work on me and my family. You really are a miracle worker. I have had just about everyone you can imagine work on me and I don’t think I have seen anyone who has the precision and capability that you guys do to create change and really, systemically understand how the body relates on all levels. I am beyond passionate about Counterstrain.”

“Imagine your entire body being out of pain…imagine be able to perform at your best…and imagine having all that and the work that you do to get there is painless. I’ve found that Counterstrain has been one of the single most valuable tools for immediate change in the body.”

Hello! My name is Diego Valeri, I’m a professional soccer player (with the Portland Timbers).

I wanted to talk to you about a therapeutic technique called (Fascial) Counterstrain that I have received from Timothy Hodges at Counterstrain Portland. It’s a technique that I have experienced in which I have noticed great changes! Especially in my back, in areas like my lower lumbar and my legs- a lot of relief in my legs, and a big change in my posture.

I believe it has greatly improved my performance on the field, my sensations while I am playing, my recuperation after matches, after games– a very, very favorable change in my recuperation after games…

And I think it is a technique that will cause extraordinary changes in sports medicine.

Thank you very much!

A little over 18 years ago, I was in a horrific car accident. I’ll never forget the EMTs telling me how lucky I was to walk away with only “minor” injuries. One knee surgery and a few months of traditional PT and I was deemed good as new.

I had always been extremely active both a dancer and a runner. I was young and in great shape prior to the accident. In the years that followed, I returned to dancing and running. I looked fine from the outside, but never really felt the same. I always had this weird feeling of being stuck forward, deep inside. It would vary in intensity but was ALWAYS there. I was always asking people to “crack” my back, for massage – for something to address the feeling of being crunched in my chest/mid-back and nothing ever quite got to it.

My mid-back pain flared with my first pregnancy but thankfully returned to it’s “weird stuck feeling” after my daughter’s birth. Three years later I was blessed with a second pregnancy but this time was different. My mid-back/chest pain flared, and my legs swelled. SWELLED!!! I had run through my entire first pregnancy and this time could barely walk down the hall without being short of breath. I was no bigger but something was very different. After my son’s birth the mid-back/chest pain calmed a little bit but the swelling in my legs never really went away. Running was an extreme effort for me, and no matter how much I tried – little runs felt like marathons. My calves would cramp up halfway down the block from my home. Despite my son’s birth 18 months prior to being treated, I still had a very hard time recognizing my legs as my own. The swelling in my calves made it hard for me to wear my normal pants.
I had begun to write this all off as aging, and the price you pay for being a mother of two. Then one month ago, I had the opportunity for Tim Hodges to treat me using fascial counterstrain. While I began rattling off my symptoms, he began doing his scan. Within a minute or two he was treating the fascia around my heart, and the ligaments of my spine. After an hour I went on my way feeling loose and tall and being able to stand upright for the first time in 18 years. The next morning my legs looked like my own! The swelling was dramatically reduced and continued to go down over the next few days.

The following week I decided to test Tim and see how long his results would hold. I did intervals sprints full speed on the treadmill, and actually wore myself out for the first time since my son was born. No mid-back pain, no swelling. I pushed two kids in the running stroller up big hills. No return of symptoms, not even in my back. I wore heels to work and brought flats just in case my calves cramped. No return of my symptoms. My calves fit in my pants again.

It’s been a month since Tim treated me once. I have tested his fascial counterstrain treatment in so many ways and it has continued to hold after only one treatment. I wanted to write this testimonial because I have had every type of treatment – from acupuncture to chiropractic and traditional PT. One treatment did more than 18 years of all the other types combined! Thanks Tim!

I truly feel like this body of work is nothing short of miraculous. Instead of quickly turning to surgery and pills or falling into despair when your condition seems hopeless, there is a gentle, real way to actually go to the source of your pain and release it.

Tim Hodges of Portland, Oregon and his mentor/business partner, and the originator of Fascial Counterstrain, Brian Tuckey of Frederick, Maryland have developed a revolutionary way to unleash health in the human body by simply releasing hundreds of protective spasms.

You know intuitively that there is a part of pain that is protective in nature, especially when you feel the tension in your neck or shoulder or leg muscles develop in response to stress or injury. However, realizing that every organ, nerve, artery, vein and lymphatic vessel in your body can actively spam, produce pain and therefore need a therapeutic release is a whole other level of understanding. Astonishingly, they have mapped the entire body and can do this with gentle non-painful, manual releases.

I went to Tim with chronic neck and hip pain and after treatment was shocked that it wasn’t just better, but gone! I have known Tim now for two and a half years, and he and Andrea Mohrle have case after case of what I like to call the unleashing of health – from resolving chronic back pain, eliminating sciatica, easing headaches, clearing brain fog and even calming seizures including concussive injuries of the brain.

In one particular case, I witnessed a man come into the office in a wheelchair and left in a walker. The next day he came in with a cane and then walked on his own after treatment. It isn’t spiritual or crazy, it is scientific, medical and completely understandable and concrete. I am convinced that because of Tim, I have avoided many serious conditions due to the significant stresses of my life. We are very lucky to have him in Portland. I’d fly across the world to be treated by him!

Tim Hodges gave my son back his childhood. After brain tumor surgery at 6 years of age, my son Matthew was left with a long list of after effects with double vision being the most notable. After years of therapy and corrective surgery, the double vision persisted.

I sought the help of every professional we could find: neurosurgeons, neurologists, specialists in strabismus, pediatric ophthalmologists, a biomechanical physical therapist and multiple vision therapists. I was given no explanations for his condition, no effective therapies and was told by one specialist that “he will never see single vision.” I dedicated my life to solving this problem for Matthew. I home schooled and developed my own vision therapy with great success but the double vision was only being kept at bay and would return if therapy stopped or when he was fatigued. Then I found Tim Hodges. His unique approach using a new technique called Fascial Counterstrain, restored Matthew’s ability to maintain single vision permanently as well as eliminating all the other nagging after effects that were still plaguing Matthew, such as his chronic nausea.

Writing this review brings me to tears as all the emotions of our years long struggle come back to me. I can’t imagine what our lives would be like if I had not found Tim. Thanks to him, Matt is a completely healthy, thriving, tennis playing 11 year-old boy with no remnants of any of his surgery related issues. In fact, his vision is so great that he has even developed back his depth perception at age 11!

Thank you Tim for your incredible patience, compassion and knowledge.

Our daughter Sophia has been mostly a medical enigma since birth. We could tell she was in terrible pain, but mainstream doctors only identified some significant issues that explained part of her suffering. Her overall joint pain and misery were things they could never “solve.” By the time she was 4 and 1/2, Sophia was on a huge amount of prescription medication and our family was completely drained emotionally. I felt we were truly at a breaking point. Since birth, Sophia spent anywhere from 2-12 hours a day screaming the most chilling, bloodcurdling screams her doctors had ever heard. It is hard to explain how this impacted our entire family, but needless to say, aside from medical appointments, we avoided taking her anywhere and our nerves were frazzled. As you can imagine, to no avail, we tried every possible specialist the medical world had to offer…or so we thought.

In October of 2012, some dear friends of ours told us about Tim Hodges. They shared miraculous testimonials of how he healed not only their own chronic and acute pain issues, but also those of MANY friends they had referred to him. They went so far as to say that 100% of the many people they referred to Tim reported at least a significant decrease in pain, if not a complete relief. Of course that statistic is extremely positive and optimistic sounding, but I have to admit that we were extremely skeptical. Our experience so far had been a roller coaster of hope with each new specialist, only to be followed by despair as we were left with no answers and continued pain. But we felt we had absolutely nothing to lose by meeting Tim and seeing what he had to say or what he could do.

I don’t really know how to explain the experience of Tim’s assessment. People need to see him in action to believe it. He did not need to know anything about her background…he simply “scanned her dura” and actually TOLD ME what her symptoms were…more accurately than I could have relayed them. I think I had to pick my jaw up off the floor because I was in such shock. He listed symptoms we had long ago stopped mentioning to doctors because they had become part of what we had come to expect in Sophia. Another stunning thing he told us was that he thought it would probably only take 5-6 sessions to help her!?!?

After each session, as Tim aptly prepared us, Sophia felt worse for 24 hours or so. But the unmistakable improvement following each session had us, her doctors, and our friends in complete disbelief!! By the time we completed our 5th session, Sophia was a completely different child!!

We never realized how much Sophia’s pain behavior crippled us as a family. The first few times we felt brave enough to go on a walk or to the park…or to a friend’s house, we all marveled!! Our new Sophia is AMAZING!!! She is sweet, funny, delightful, patient, kind, well mannered and just a source of JOY for us! We have all been so deeply moved by the experience of getting to know who Sophia REALLY WAS…under all that pain. We have fallen in love with a little girl we never had the privilege to know. That rips my heart out. It really does. It took us until she was almost 5 to get to truly know Sophia. We probably would have never met the REAL Sophia if not for Tim Hodges.

You can see the difference in Sophia’s physical health when you look at her pictures. The “old” Sophia is extremely pale with dark sunken eyes and what we used to call her perma-frown. No one could ever get her to smile..it was so sad. The new Sophia smiles, laughs, giggles and just LOOKS like a healthy girl!!

We are completely overwhelmed with gratitude toward Tim Hodges for the miraculous change he brought to our precious girl and our family through his incredible gift. We tell everyone we can about the transformation he has brought to Sophia’s life!!

Thank you, Tim Hodges from the bottom of our hearts!!!

Hi Tim,

Thank you for the message – I’m doing great! I can’t believe what a difference CS treatment makes to the body. I didn’t even know I had the problems I had! My treatment was for the lymphatic system. I’ve told several people about your work and CS. One of my clients lives in Nairobi and will be visiting the UK next month and she’s checking into a clinic there to try it. I hope it works out for her – she has massive headaches every week…nearly each day.

I appreciate you following up and will certainly go on to tell people about guys…I had a wonderful experience and thank you for giving all that you guys did with so many late nights.

Wishing you well!

Tim Hodges has taken me out of pain and dysfunction to a newly integrated body from which I derive strength and pleasure. Strain/counterstrain accomplishes what many other disciplines cannot and Tim is a leader in the field who continues to develop advanced techniques of practice.
The depth of his interest and his mastery of the complexities of the human body are truly astonishing. And this is wedded to his exceptional skill as a manual therapist. He provides the highest level of integrity, professional care and commitment to his clients. If you work with Tim you are, in all senses of the phrase, “in good hands.” You are, in fact, in the best hands. I am immensely grateful to him for the renewed life he has given me and I continue to work with him to enhance and secure this.