Erik Dalton Blog

Engaging the Brain with Myoskeletal Enhancers

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…

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Fanning Fibromyalgia Flames

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

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That Funny Bone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=klcH9XOPFCY%3F From Treating Trapped Nerves course Mobilizing the ulnar nerve by Erik Dalton The ulnar is the most exposed of all nerves and ranks second

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Common Upper Extremity Dysfunctions

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)

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Why Women Hurt More

Many manual therapists realize that pain does not afflict the two genders equally. Most medical literature points to consistent findings that women report more musculoskeletal

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