Background

Jackson Friedman, D.O.

Jackson Friedman DO is a graduate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine class of 2002. He then did a rotating medical internship at Mercy Hospital in Portland Maine in 2003. Then he completed a two-year residency in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manual Medicine in 2006 at North Shore University Hospital in Plainview, NY and at St Barnabus Hospital in the Bronx, NY.

He holds a license to practice medicine in the State of Hawaii and has privileges at Kula San Hospital. He practices at Kula San Hospital Clinic in Keokea, Maui. Dr. Friedman is a member of the American Osteopathic Association and the American Academy of Osteopathy. 

Dr Friedman believes in the effectiveness of appropriately applied touch to enhance the body’s innate healing capabilities. This approach to wellness is gentle and non-intrusive, yet deep and effective. He has used knowledgably directed touch to support health since 1979 when he became a holistic practitioner of body-mind approaches including Trager Psychophysical Integration. He enjoys bringing out the health in is patients. Seeking and encouraging healthy tissue texture change and the correlating physiological & psychological responses that lead to enhanced function and comfort. Structure & function have a reciprocal relationship.

To assess the cause of your symptoms, Dr. Friedman uses palpation as well as the most current medical knowledge and technologies. In his treatments, he finds and accentuates areas that function well and extrapolates that experience into restricted tissue. Dr. Friedman helps you to remember how ‘normal’ feels. The body’s subtle body responses are micro adjustments that cumulatively result in healthier neuromuscular tone and smoother coordination and ease of movement. Your body and mind knows best how to restore optimal health. This occurs via sensory-motor feedback loops between mind and body whose reflexes reset pathological tone toward normal, and instigate your therapeutic process. Dr. Friedman utilizes an array of non-intrusive techniques based on traditional osteopathic practice that influence nerves, muscles, fascia, joints, vasculature, and lymphatics. Knowing the anatomy well and how to interact with these structures increases one’s ability to bring out optimal results. By addressing nerves, arteries, veins, lymphatics, and organs with precision, we improve their structural health, helping them to function better. Structure & function have a reciprocal relationship.

Inflammation is part of the healing process. When it cascades out of control, it can become problematic.  With tactful touch we can tactilely &
tactfully encourage congested areas to open, improving venous & lymphatic drainage leading to the reduction of inflammation, so the affected can heal more quickly.

Injury, and compensations to it can result in compensatory restricted range of motion and muscle tone imbalance. Restoration of optimal muscle tone and neuromuscular function are common results of treatment which leads to increased range of motion, greater ease and comfort, improved proprioceptive sense & posture, alleviation of pain and enhanced well-being.

Proprioception gives us the sense of where we are in space in 3 dimensions. Peripherally it travels on the fastest neural pathways and centrally it connects important areas of the brain that are involved with movement patterns, emotions, and learning. By engaging communication with the proprioceptive system through comfortable touch and movement, we enhance neural connections and function in organs, muscles, tendons, fascia, and glands and with their connections with the central nervous system. Benefits include more comfortable sense of self and mood, enhanced movement and learning capabilities, and refined, optimal function in a more unified body, mind, and spirit.