COMING SOON! Techniques for the Hip & Pelvis A Course designed to enhance your competence, confidence and skill level treating Hip & Pelvis Complaints. In this course I instruct my most effective and L.A.S.T.ing techniques for the Hip & Pelvis; discuss the communications of the various mechanoreceptors of the ligaments/joint capsules, the influences of the ligamentomuscular reflex and the influences of these…
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! 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…
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…
2 Muscles in 1!? MORE cool research coming out about this amazing muscle! Abstract To the respiratory physiologist or anatomist the diaphragm muscle is of course the prime mover of tidal air. However, gastrointestinal physiologists are becoming increasingly aware of the value of this muscle in helping to stop gastric contents from refluxing into the…
Does Posture matter? Yes? No? What do you correlate Posture with? Pain? Headaches? Tension? Degeneration? Acceleration of OA? There is a lot of Myth and Trend around Posture in our education, our biases, our beliefs, but are they substantiated? What research have these Myths and Trends been based upon? What are the connections between Posture, The…
Ligament Pain Referral Patterns Over my 22yr career I’ve recognized a distinct, immediate and ongoing problem. My patients were complaining of pain referral patterns that didn’t seem to match up with the standard trigger points, dermatome or sclerotome patterns. For years I researched scientific journals and resources, while continually charting the referral patterns described to…
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1988 Oct;11(5):400-8. Effects of altered afferent articular input on sensation, proprioception, muscle tone and sympathetic reflex responses. Slosberg M Abstract The influence of afferent articular and periarticular input on muscle tone, joint mobility, proprioception and pain is of considerable interest to practitioners using manipulation. It has long been hypothesized that dysfunctional articulations…
I remember being taught in school (as a student) and again remember my Co-Instructors instructing that the SI Joint could be measured for upslips, rotations, diagonal axis dysfunctions etc… Now I’m honestly uncomfortable using that terminology, communication and assessment of the structure. I am biased in thinking that we still have influence on the surrounding…
Full Article This issue of Pain: Clinical Updates examines whether low back pain (LBP) should be considered a straightforward consequence of injury/dysfunction in the spine, or the result of more complex processes involving nervous system processing of sensory information. The focus is on axial LBP rather than radiculopathy, and on chronic LBP rather than on…