Research has shown that most people diagnosed with conditions like plantar fasciitis actually don’t have inflammation (-itis) anymore. Instead they have a condition (-osis), like tissue degeneration. The medical treatments for tissue inflammation and degeneration are different and may negatively impact treatment outcomes if misapplied. By understanding the difference between the two diagnoses, you can [...]
If you’re coming out of a massage and your arms and shoulders are shot, you’re doing one thing very wrong. You’re not using your legs. I don’t mean you should be sticking a knee in the lumbar erectors. (Though I have thought about that…) What I mean is that you’re not using your legs to [...]
As a neuromuscular massage therapist, I would do anything to reach a muscle attachment—even if it meant sacrificing a thumb or a finger. But after many years of “going for attachments”, I started to run out of thumbs and fingers. For the next decade I worked on figuring out how I could massage hard-to-reach attachments [...]
Joanne had been a client of mine for many years and loved deep pressure. One day she asked: “Does your body ever hurt after doing massage?” To this day I wonder if my head actually cocked to the side like a confused puppy. Wasn’t the obvious answer: Hell, yes?! I responded with something like: “I [...]
