Each therapist, based on their background, will have different interpretations, ideas and uses of Medical Massage. My background comes from Massage School (CCMT), graduated 8/2002, straight into a Medical Massage Program at Hartford Hospital CT, after doing a clinical (field course) at the same place, graduating 1/2003, plus 30 years in Emergency Medicine, including working …
At clinic class, which was off-site from the school, I had chosen a hospital to work at, a patient, approximately 70 year old male, his chief complaint was that he kept spilling his coffee, his arm would shake and the forearm pronate, or turn inward, and the coffee spill out. I worked his entire right arm, …
I was still in Massage School and went home for the holidays, stayed with my sister who runs an Inn, and she told me there was someone at the bar who had fallen off a horse and was unable to sit down, asking if I could do anything? I knew some techniques and was willing to …
While still at Massage school … Fell off a horse and unable to sit down Read More »
You can look up how to stretch a particular muscle or muscle group, but can you do it smarter? Look up the action of a muscle; take for example the Psoas, there’s a muscle that often needs stretching in our sit down lifestyle. I’m simplifying here, as each piece of the Psoas has a slightly …
One of my energy work techniques is to get in touch with how you died in a previous life. If you don’t believe, it’s not something I do unless specifically asked, and then only if we’ve reached a plateau in therapy. For this client I felt she’d been a young boy and slid on some rocks, …
Picture a bow and arrow, forget the arrow, and remove the rope attached to the ends of the bow, and the bow will straighten up. Expand this to the spine, and more, the bones go where the tissue tensions pull them. This is a simplified model for Scoliosis. The Spine is not one rod but segmented, …
The brain is not just one bag of softness wrapped in protective layers, there are supporting structures inside, to separate left from right cortex, called the Falx Cerebri, two leafs to separate the Cortex from the Cerebellum, called the Tentorium Cerebelli, because it’s shaped like a tent, and a vertical layer below the tent covers …
The Sacrum is positioned anteriorly to the medial Iliacs and connected to them one side by muscle and tendon, the other ligament. There’s a lot of connective tissue joining the Iliacs posterior to the Sacrum plus a diamond fascial stress balancing and sharing area overlying all plus the lower Lumbar spine. Now that you have …
One of my clients may have a facet condition in the Lumbar area, but has not found any medical treatment for it. The usual massage techniques eased the condition but as yet haven’t removed it. It has become a puzzle, and I like to solve puzzles. Not improving a client’s health pushes me to learn …
