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James grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, and has lived there most of his life. At age 21, he decided to train in the martial arts, and he achieved four degrees of black belt. Three of those degrees are in Tae Kwon Do and a first degree in Ju Jutsu. James taught both children and adults in Clifton, N.J., for six years. He continues his study in the arts today.
 
During his early martial arts training, he decided to go to the Swedish Institute of Massage in New York City. James received his L.M.T. license from the New York State education dept in 1986. Immediately after receiving his L.M.T. license, he began his studies in Dr. Janet Travell's work on Myo-fascial Pain and Dysfunction. Although Dr. Travell, author of her two-volume set on myo-fascial pain, would use procaine/lidocaine injections with corticosteroids as her forte' of treatment. James began an intensive study using her clinical research on trigger point pain. He experimented with direct manual pressure on these trigger points with fluoro-methane spray and stretch techniques to achieve normal flexibility in the Musculoskeletal system. At the time, Dr. Soalt, an Osteopathic physician, now retired, was familiar with Dr. Travell's work and began referring patients to James for treatment. The techniques were quite effective. The only caveat, it was a painful treatment for the patient and exhausting for the therapist, and there was a small population that he found did not respond as well as others. By using these techniques in sports clubs on athletes, his name began to get around. At the same time, he also had started an office in Montclair, N.J.

Not pleased with one hundred percent recovery in all of his clients using Dr. Travell's concepts, he began searching for answers and came across Craniosacral Therapy by Dr. John Upledger D.O. of the Upledger Institute. The work was quite different. The Craniosacral concept was gentle manipulation of boney structures of the cranial bones and CSF (cerebrospinal) fluid dynamics within the cranial vault, spinal cord, meninges, and other connective tissue structures. James saw profound results never achieved through heavy trigger point manipulative techniques. Also, psycho-emotional changes during the treatments showed profound effects within the connective tissue structures and reduced pain and disability. There was no turning back. Study with the Upledger institute was intense and continual. Throughout the intense study of the Craniosacral Therapy approach, he met Paul Chauffour, D.O. author of three books and developer of Mechanical Link, a multi-system approach to manipulation. He studied personally with him for three years. James completed the course study of Visceral Manipulation developed by Jean Pierre Barral D.O. and founder of the present Barral Institute. James traveled extensively for many years to meet with and study the concepts of these masters.

James was then offered a job as a personal trainer in a large Corporation in N.Y. City's garment district, where he worked for seven years, gave him the opportunity and funds to study intensively and travel to study Paul Chauffour's and Jean Pierre Barral's visceral concepts. James met Dr. Barral protege' Frank Lowen M.T., who was teaching Visceral Manipulation for Jean Pierre. James was so impressed with Frank Lowen's treatment style that he followed him for many years, trained intensively, and considered Frank Lowen his mentor and teacher.

Between working, traveling, and studying with these masters of manual manipulation for over 15 years and studying with the top biochemists around the country, and working with labs learning how to utilize functional medicine approaches, diet, nutrition, nutraceuticals, homeopathy, and herbs for his clients, his health started to deteriorate. At forty-nine years of age, illness set in, and he began to become highly fatigued, lost part of his vision, and had systemic joint pain. He sought out other practitioners and physicians but did not find the cause of these symptoms. He came in contact with E.A.V. diagnostic techniques, which showed Lyme disease and co-infections. From that point on, he studied everything he could find on Lyme disease. He researched herbal, homeopathic, and drug compounds that affect Lyme infections and co-infections. He continued his research and found Dr. Schaller's work well-versed in these concepts and taught James a lot about blood tests for these disease processes. Through his studies, he also realized that many other infections and environmental toxic compounds, heavy metal and chemical toxicity, mold infections, parasitic infection, and high viral loads all contribute to the tenacity of a chronic bacterial and viral infection. These exacerbating factors are now known to affect how one's immune function deals with disease processes and chronic illness. These elements compound and reduce the ability of the body to fight infection.
James met Dr. Klinghardt and A.R.T. (Autonomic Response Testing), and the proper diagnosis made of Lyme disease and co-infections along with heavy metal toxicity along with other factors completed the picture. Six years later, thanks to Dr. Marc Scwarz, Dr. Klinghardt's protege', Dr. Schwartz utilized proper protocols, and his health has returned. A.R.T. saved his vision and his practice. James has been steadily studying and using A.R.T. techniques for over a decade and along with his learned manual skills and functional medicine knowledge, to alleviate suffering in difficult-to-solve cases so common today. He continues his studies with the most influential physicians working in the relevant medical field of treatment for hard-to-treat chronic issues and incorporates all he has learned to help others.

"I am indebted to all the practitioners I have come across over the years. I have been privileged to learn and continue their work to help others. Who knows what the next 30 years will bring. My heartfelt thanks".

James Stivaly L.M.T.

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