Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
The femoroacetabular is one of the largest, strongest and most flexible joints in the human body. During gait our hips give us power and…
August 11, 2025
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How Massage Therapists Can Master Complex Skills Faster
For years, that tricky closing stretch was a great example of explicit memory, or information we have to consciously work to remember. Eventually, the maneuver
May 22, 2019
How to Become a Better Pain Detective
Learn the systematic application of ART to unravel the mystery of your client’s pain.
July 29, 2025
How predictive coding is changing our understanding of the brain
Below is an excellent article by Sage Briggs and here’s a link to a blog that relates to Predictive Coding: https://erikdalton.com/blog/cant-teach-experience-2/ How predictive coding is
August 6, 2009
How Do You Stretch Fascia?
The body-wide network of fascia is assumed to play an essential role in our posture and movement organization. It is frequently referred to as our organ of form. Many manual therapy approaches focus treatment on fascial tissues, and these approaches claim to alter the density, tonus, viscosity, or arrangement of fascia through the ap plication of manual pressure…
September 29, 2019
How Do Ligaments Cause Sciatica?
The primary role of the iliolumbar ligaments is to prevent excessive lumbar sidebending, but these ligaments can contribute to sciatic nerve entrapment when injured. A traumatic event such as a bending and twisting maneuver while attempting to lift a heavy object, may strain the iliolumbar ligaments and their multifidi neighbors. As the ligaments weaken, they lose the ability to
July 1, 2025
How Did Tiger Survive the Crunch Factor?
The Masters Golf Tournament certainly proved to be an entertaining event this year as Tiger Woods did the unthinkable and pulled off his first Masters victory since 2005 (Fig.
April 22, 2019
Hooked Coccyx, Dural Drag & Butt Pain
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPdGqGxOpA8 Treating central nervous system tension In my first college anatomy class, the professor claimed that by adulthood, the three or four bones of the
December 28, 2016
Hooked Coccyx, Butt Pain, and Emotions
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
January 21, 2017
Home Study or Workshops for Your Bodywork Training?
People are always asking me which is more important Myoskeletal Alignment(R) home-study courses or “live” workshops. For the past 15 + years, my Freedom From
July 16, 2011
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