Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Quick Story: Over the last 8yrs I had the privilege to treat a patent with severe OA of the right hip. Manual Therapy along with Active exercises prevented him from having surgery until 1 week after we shot videos for the Online Hip and…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! Restricted Hip Rotation Is Correlated With an Increased Risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury. The primary purpose was to compare ipsilateral hip internal rotation (IR) in male and female athletes with or without an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. A secondary purpose was to…
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 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…
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…
Helping Incorporate Research and Manual Techniques into your Massage Therapy Practice! So this caught my eye this morning! This is an interesting report identifying another manual test for clinicians to incorporate into their testing for Adhesive Capsulitis. Have a read through the Abstract, head on over to the Full Paper. Then “come on back” here…
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…