Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Today I want to talk with you about responsibility and competency and congruency. You owe it to the profession and your patients to continually educate yourself on the current understandings. You can’t afford to just go into work and rely on the old information…
1: First Watch this Short Video 2: Please Read Carefully the Survey descriptions 3: Choose the Survey you Best fit into 4: Complete the Survey Read Carefully Throughout a Massage/Manual Therapists career, some unfortunate Therapists will suffer from medium to somewhat severe aches/pain that can be considered long term. These can be debilitating and can…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! For those of you who LOVE treating feet, you are going to love watching this Fluoroscopic Foot Motion by Dr. Don Green D.P.M. It takes a few moments to adjust your eyes to the Fluoroscopic view, but once you can identify the anatomy, you’ll be able to…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! For those of you who have Patents coming for treatment of their Functional Ankle Instabilities (FAI), here’s a bit of research AND instructional videos you can use in your practice today! The first piece titled “The brain: A new frontier in ankle instability research” is…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Here’s another nice piece of research from The Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery detailing the anatomy and kinematics of the Lateral Elbow Complex. The structure and kinematics of the lateral collateral ligament of the elbow joint were investigated in 10 cadaveric specimens. The…
Abstract Background People with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) exhibit widespread pressure pain and thermal pain hypersensitivity as a manifestation of central sensitization. The aim of our study was to compare the effectiveness of manual therapy versus surgery for improving pain and nociceptive gain processing in people with CTS. Methods The trial was conducted at a…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! One problem that we all can be affected by as rehabilitation professionals is tunnel vision. We can lose sight of the structures affected by an injury or condition and we and our patients set our sights on attempting to attain pre-injury function, ROM and…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! “Ensuring that adjacent nonneural structures are functioning in an optimal fashion can reduce the mechanical forces these structures place on sensitive neural tissues (Butler, 2000; Hall & Elvey, 1999), thereby theoretically reducing nociceptive input from sensitized nervi nervorum and AIGS (Butler, 2000). For example, restoring…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! As an RMT, not only do I treat a lot of patients complaining of lateral elbow pain and discomfort, but I’m also vitally aware of my own body, the physical pressures, what torques and forces I’m placing into my own structure. The lateral elbow is…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Most of my Knee Patients present with some amount of external rotation of their tibia on their femur. Although there are always multiple factors that play into this, and everyone is different, treating Popliteus is a common part of my treatments. It’s not the…