Hooked Coccyx, Butt Pain, and Emotions
January 21, 2017
Many of your chronic pain clients may also be suffering emotional disorders such as anxiety, anger, depression, and poor coping skills (Fig. 1). Could you guess
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Does The Brain Play a Key Role in Pain?
January 20, 2017
For many decades, neuroscientists have wrestled with the notion that the brain itself might play a key role in the modulation of pain. Several researchers,
Engaging the Brain with Myoskeletal Enhancers
January 18, 2017
What’s a Myoskeletal Enhancer?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the verb enhance means “to improve the quality, amount or strength of something.” Similarly, in Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques (MAT), the term enhancer is used as a noun to describe a therapist-directed movement cue that neurologically boosts, intensifies, and heightens a therapeutic outcome. Learn more…
Fanning Fibromyalgia Flames
January 16, 2017
For decades, fibromyalgia patients have been told their agony was imaginary, the result of emotional hysteria and not an authentic physical ailment. But beginning last
Evaluating Elbows: Assessing Elbow Pain
January 13, 2017
Part of what makes us human is the way we are able to use our hands. Effective and skillful hand usage requires stable, painless movement
Myoskeletal Mobilization tour of the upper extremities | Acknowledging the Acromioclavicular joint
January 12, 2017
https://vimeo.com/227135451 Acknowledging the A/C The Acromioclavicular or A/C joint sits on the point of the shoulder lateral to the sternoclavicular and proximal to the glenohumeral.
Assessment and Treatment Modalities for bony articulations of the shoulder, arm and hand
January 11, 2017
The label “shoulder complex” appropriately describes the complexities encountered when dealing with pain in this commonly dysfunctional area. Comprised of three joints and one primary
Upper Extremity Disorders – Theory of shoulder girdle function and pelvic-trunk stabilization
January 10, 2017
Theory of shoulder girdle function The shoulder girdle functions to position the hand, provides stability for hand use, lifts, pushes, elevates the body, assists with
Common Upper Extremity Dysfunctions
January 10, 2017
Mobilization Treatment Techniques to Restore Movement Many sessions normally begin with assessment and treatment techniques aimed at restoring length-tension balance between tonic and phasic (tight-weak)
Wallet Sciatica and SI Joint Pain
January 8, 2017
Every day, our society is coming up with more imaginative ways to be sick, according to a recent article located on the web at hypochondria
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