The three scalene groups derive their name from the Greek word skalenos meaning “uneven.” Although anatomists depict the scalenes as individual muscles, most touch therapists are aware of how they work together as a functional unit during neck sidebending and rotation
Techniques as demonstrated at Oklahoma City Workshop Pectoralis minor is a major player when it comes to bad posture, subacromial impingement and neurogenic thoracic outlet.
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”
https://player.vimeo.com/video/248031269 The famed Czech researcher Dr. Karel Lewit states: “Respiration is our primary and most important movement pattern… and also the most dysfunctional.” Most clinicians
Often, the patella is tilted and sits in the knee the way a beret rests on the side of one’s head, thus the term “squinting
https://youtu.be/cz27aUzM46k 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
From Art of MAT course A “crick in the neck” is a common complaint among clients seeking manual therapy. This informal umbrella term can refer
https://vimeo.com/394990253 Clients with nonspecific low back pain may be experiencing mechanical wear and tear of the zygapophyseal joints, located in the posterior aspect of the
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.
From Advanced Upper Body Course Fig. 1 – Transitional muscular forces from above and below attached to C2 – Courtesy Robert Acland The second cervical
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