Recently there has been much discussion on various social media outlets concerning the topics of releasing ligament, lengthening ligaments, ligaments being weak, some therapists perception that ligaments need to be strengthened and so on. These are all great topics for discussion and require their own posts. My “Go To’ site for all things Ligamentous its…
Thanks to everyone who contacted me to wish my a Happy Birthday! I appreciate it more than you know. Birthdays tend to be a time of reflection for me. It just also happens that this week coming, I’ll be speaking to a class of Massage Therapy students who are just about to graduate. I have…
Like most of you, I LOVE my work! I don’t even really think of it as work, but more as play… serious play! Every hour is a different challenge, a different story. In 23yrs, I’ve never had a boring day. I always hear from other clinicians that they are bored, had a boring day, “SAME”…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Here’s some research from The Journal of Rheumatology documenting pain referral patterns of the Sternoclavicular Joint tissues. “The composite maps derived from our data demonstrate that irritation of the SCJ provokes somatic pain locally over the joint as well as referred pain to various ipsilateral anatomical locations….
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Here’s some research from The Bone & Joint Journal into the inner workings of why your hip may be painful. The distribution of nociceptive innervation in the painful hip: a histological investigation. Abstract Our understanding of the origin of hip pain in degenerative disorders…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Full Abstract “The coracoid process is a hook-shaped bone structure projecting anterolaterally from the superior aspect of the scapular neck. Surgeons often refer to the coracoid process as the “lighthouse of the shoulder” given its proximity to major neurovascular structures such as the brachial…
I was fortunate to have a long term patient of mine with advanced OA of the Hip donate his time so that I could document what we can accomplish as Massage Therapists with conditions as advanced as his. These Video Samples are from some Facebook live Videos we took while shooting footage for my upcoming…
The brain: A new frontier in ankle instability research Transcranial magnetic stimulation research suggests cortical excitability may be able to help differentiate healthy, previously injured, and functionally unstable ankle joints, and underscores the need to clinically target both mechanical and proprioceptive deficits in patients with FAI. By Alan R. Needle, PhD Among the physically active,…
This was the biggest Massage Therapy Event in Canada this year! I’m very proud to have been asked back for a second year to be a part of this amazing conference. It’s great to rub shoulders with the likes of James Waslaski, Erik Stephens, Brad and Leslie from RockTape and Chris O’Connor to mention a few….
Anatomic connections of the diaphragm: influence of respiration on the body system “A logical deduction is that the connection between the chest and the abdomen is an anatomic continuum, where the diaphragm plays a vital role in managing the information related to both cavities.” Abstract The article explains the scientific reasons for the diaphragm muscle…