Biography

Ms. Spencer has quickly become a foremost influencer in the area of chronic pain management and has made it her mission to educate the masses on the role inflammation plays in creating pain.

As a graduate of the Soma Institute National School of Clinical Massage Therapy and a licensed Massage Therapist, Ms. Spencer has traveled the United States and beyond imparting valuable learning based on years of research. Her experience spans a premier academic medical center, corporations, chiropractic and osteopathic practices, dance centers, hospitals, and rehabilitation clinics.

In 2002, Licensed Clinical Massage Therapist Lori L. Spencer began observing, treating, and working with musicians to understand their movements and their bodies’ reactions to these movements. While developing her unique, light pressure, deep tissue, massage technique, she specifically observed repetitive behaviors as they correlated with different instruments, creating patterns of stiffness and pain.

The elimination of pain is Ms. Spencer’s specialty. While working for Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Integrated Medicine Physicians Group, patients whose conditions were deemed most difficult typically found their way to her table. The uniqueness of her technique allows her to work in areas often inaccessible or contraindicated for other approaches. For example, her work has included providing relief for hospice patients in stage four of their disease, with very effective results.

Ms. Spencer knows pain’s patterns and the way inflammation moves through tissues. In 2007 she joined a group of forward thinking, world renowned scientists and practitioners for the first Fascia Congress. By the second, she was presenting her ideas to her peers.

Ms. Spencer has brought these shared physiological concepts to her private practice and incorporated them with her overall approach to healing through administration of her systematic technique, along with hydration, hydrotherapy, natural remedies, changing behaviors, and nutrition. She educates her patients on the roles these elements play in inflammatory process and the progression, or recession, of pain.

With published works in Massage Magazine and professional newsletters, Ms. Spencer is focused on educating through lectures and workshops discussing prevention and ergonomics in relation to chronic pain. She is a member of the advisory board for Health Sciences curriculum at Northwestern Business College, having previously taught Contemporary Health Issues and Writing courses.

Ms. Spencer holds professional membership in the Performing Arts Medicine Association, American Pain Society and the American Massage Therapy Association.