Breathing… our most dysfunctional movement pattern
April 9, 2024
The famed Czech researcher Dr. Karel Lewit states: “Respiration is our primary and most important movement pattern… and also the most dysfunctional.”
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Fixated Facets & Reactive Muscle Spasm
March 19, 2024
Manual therapists routinely use bones as levers to reduce tension and protective spasm in hypertonic muscles. For example, the femur and humerus are excellent tools for stretching tight hip and shoulder girdle muscles, and we commonly rotate and sidebend a client’s head to relieve neck tension.
Addressing SI Joint Syndrome
August 15, 2023
In the early 20th century, sacroiliac joint syndrome (SIJ) was the most common medical diagnosis for low back pain, which resulted in that period being labeled the “Era of the SI Joint.” Any pain emanating from the low back, buttock or adjacent leg usually was branded and treated as SIJ.
Is Balance the Key to Ideal Posture?
July 25, 2023
Homolateral gait, righting reflexes, and neck strain Before an infant learns to crawl, he moves using homolateral movements, which involve one side of the body,
Freeing the Ribs
May 23, 2023
Treating Kinetic Chain Kinks Recent manual and movement therapy blogs tout the importance of thoracic spine (t-spine) mobility as if it were a new discovery.
Was Hippocrates Right About Scoliosis?
May 2, 2023
Ever since Hippocrates coined the term scoliosis to describe deformity of the spinal column, structural scoliosis (the fixed type) has occupied the attention of researchers, physicians and manual therapists
Pain Exposure Therapy
January 24, 2023
Mired in Controversy I’m aware this may be an unpopular statement, but I don’t completely agree with the idea of pain-free bodywork. In an environment
Low Back Z-joint Pain: Addressing Facet Joint Syndrome
January 10, 2023
Clients with nonspecific low back pain may be experiencing mechanical wear and tear of the zygapophyseal joints, located in the posterior…
Coccydynia and Pelvic Floor Spasm
October 4, 2022
Working with a sensitized nervous system Image 1. Sidebent coccyx and pelvic floor Researchers are uncertain why some people with coccyx dysfunction are symptomatic and
Coccyx The Seat of the Soul
August 3, 2021
Coccyx pain was first documented in 1588, and Simpson coined the term coccydynia in 1859. The word coccyx comes from the Greek word for “cuckoo” due to its resemblance of a cuckoo bird’s beak…
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