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The Massage Provider and Protocol In the study, you received foot massage from a nurse “experienced in the administration of massage.” This sometimes raises eyebrows among massage therapists who ask about credentials and whether this truly reflects massage therapy practice. In this case, the authors wanted to restore massage...

Massage therapy is a gentle, hands-on therapeutic modality that may have a profoundly positive effect upon brain and spinal cord function. Massage therapy is a gentle, hands-on therapeutic modality that may have a profoundly positive effect upon brain and spinal cord function. Application of this modality can also positively...

Contributed by Derek R. Austin, PT DPT MS BCTMB CSCS; Jolie Haun, PhD EdS LMT; Pualani Gillespie, LMT MS RN BCTMB While seemingly universal, pain and stiffness in the shoulders can be a significant cause of disability. Often a pain that does not go away on its own, shoulder...

Scar Tissue Formation A new report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals that Americans spent more than $16.5 billion on cosmetic plastic surgery and minimally invasive procedures in 2018, a four percent increase over the previous year. That is a large group of potential clients who could...

 I would like to share with you five things strong and successful people think about and live by. We all know them. The people who seem to breeze from one client to the next, one project to the next, one crisis to the next and always seem to come...

The Three-Step Approach The first step releases the swelling, fluids, ischemia, inflammation and surface trigger points with their related pain referral zones using milking strokes with tolerable pressure to clear surface and intermediate layers of tissue. The second step is the directed myofascial unwinding process. To unwind the myofascial...

Why Massage Say That Deep Tissue Massage Helps Plantar Fasciitis Since shortening of the plantar flexor muscles could increase stress on the plantar fascia, it seems reasonable that massage to these muscles would relieve foot pain in patients with PHPS. However, until recently, there was no scientific evidence that...

Why Massage Fang? Before making these connections, though, I need to offer a brief summary of a personal health episode. I have shared this information with various audiences before (e.g., AMTA Conference, Nashville, October 2004), when attempting to highlight just how powerful and immediate the effects of respiratory alkalosis...

The Anatomy of Nerve Compression The cubital tunnel is on the posterior aspect of the elbow. The two heads of the flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) muscle form the tunnel. One head originates at the medial epicondyle of the humerus and the other from the olecranon process. The ulnar nerve...