Palm Beach Gardens, FL - Cathy P. Holway, PT, DPT, is being
recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Top
Professional of the Year Physical Therapist and in acknowledgment of her
exemplary work at Neurovascular Institute Inc.
As a leading physical therapist and educator for over 43
years, Cathy P. Holway, PT, DPT, has worked in clinical practice, as a
researcher, and as a teacher, reaching worldwide influence and acclaim. Dr.
Holway is an expert in Neurovascular Integration, the neuroscience-based
integrative manual therapy, and gives international lectures to students of all
education levels.
To obtain her college education, Dr. Holway attended Russell Sage
College/Albany Medical College School of Physical Therapy in 1979, graduating
with a Bachelor of Science and a Certificate in Physical Therapy. Dr. Holway
strives to be a lifelong learner and returned to school to earn her Doctor of
Physical Therapy degree from Boston University in 2008.
Dr. Holway began her physical therapy career with several years of hospital
work, which sparked her creative intervention approaches. She created one of
the first rehabilitative "Back School" programs, to guide patients
through musculoskeletal dysfunction. She then transitioned to running an
outpatient physical therapy conglomerate, ultimately opening and directing a
group of seven physical therapy clinics. She then began her education in
integrative manual therapies, and in 1995 moved to Florida to run the Intensive
Treatment Programs for the Upledger Institute, where she directed an
international team of therapists and coordinated multidisciplinary treatments
for patients each day.
In 1998, Dr. Holway founded Pliscof Holway PA and spent nine years establishing
her private treatment practice and seminar business. In 1999 she created Sacred
Spaces Seminars and launched the first classes to introduce her
neuroscience-based approach to manual therapy. This included the
self-regulating process of Profound Neutral, which continues to be the key to
providing a safe, reorganizing approach to self-care and patient care.
While running her nationwide continuing education seminars, she became an
Approved Continuing Education Provider for the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida
Physical Therapy Associations, the National Certification Board of Therapeutic
Massage & Bodywork (2010), and the American Occupational Therapy
Association (2011).
After obtaining her Doctorate at Boston University in 2008, Dr. Holway founded
the Neurovascular Institute. There, she provides Neurovascular Integration, the
neuroscience-based manual therapy she created, along with stress management and
self-care strategies for patients, caregivers, and therapists. She has
continued to expand her seminar business, providing neuroscience-based medical
education to healthcare professionals worldwide.
Dr. Holway was drawn to neuroscience from her own experience of sustaining two
brain injuries and having post-traumatic partial-complex seizures. As she
recovered from these injuries, she experienced the "rewiring" process
for herself. She recognized a need to understand the neurophysiological
processes involved in rewiring and the integrative, life-restoring support that
was critical to full, meaningful recovery. As she developed her Neurovascular
Integration therapy, distinct synchrony emerged with the evolving
neuroscientific discoveries, further establishing the promise and the power of
her work.
Through the Neurovascular Integration training, taught by the institute,
therapists, caregivers, and patients find their profound neutral presence and
engage their embodied, interoceptive processing to achieve autonomic balance,
homeostatic vitality, and well-organized body-brain communication. Patients
with chronic pain, brain injuries, genetic disorders, post-traumatic stress
issues, and autoimmune dysfunctions are all helped through these calming,
reorganizing methods.
Dr. Holway created and taught live continuing education seminars nationwide
from 1999 through 2019. In 2017 and 2018, she introduced the "Presence,
Path and Process" conferences, exploring the "Four Pillars of
Changing the Culture of Healthcare." This approach continues to illuminate
her Neurovascular Integration work as she develops her evolving online course
and community platform.
Dr. Holway also provides on-demand, online medical education seminars, for your
Continuing Education credits nationwide, through HomeCEU Connection. Current
courses include: "Sensory Brain Development Class," addressing the
biodynamic embryological blueprints of the "wiring confusion" issues
we encounter; and the "Neuro-Revisions for Tethered Oral Tissues
Class," providing important information about the neurophysiology of
orofacial disruptions and dysfunctions, and current oral-motor dysregulation
treatments.
As she looks to the future, Dr. Holway plans to continue to expand her online
course and community platforms, integrating her research and clinical work to
provide the most advanced patient care strategies to her colleagues and
patients.
For more information, visit https://neurovasculartherapy.com.
