Erik Dalton Blog

Big Toe Kink in the Kinetic Chain

What if the root of your client’s knee, hip, or back pain starts with their big toe? What if overlooked midfoot restrictions are driving compensation up the kinetic chain? In this video demonstration, Erik teaches a series of simple, effective foot mobilizations you can easily integrate into your sessions.

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Adductors, Pudendal Nerve and Pelvic Floor Pain

Pelvic floor muscles such as levator ani, coccygeus and obturator internus attach to the front, back and sides of the pelvis and sacrum and form the bottom of the core. These muscles must be able to contract to maintain continence, and to relax allowing for urination and bowel movements, and in women, sexual intercourse.

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Quad Pain and Femoral Nerve Entrapment

Femoral nerve entrapment can trigger thigh pain, tingling, and even knee buckling. Learn how this condition develops and how massage therapy techniques like soft-tissue release and neural glides can relieve pain and restore function.

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Joint Play the Mennell Way

Everything designed to move has a built-in factor of “play” to promote efficient functional movement. For example, an automobile pis­ton and cylinder, a wheel on an axle, and even a simple hinge all have calculated play between their moving parts to allow efficiency of movement. Why not in a human joint?…

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Sports Injury Whiplash…

A Case Study Luke was referred by his personal trainer for neck mobility issues resulting from a direct blow to his left shoulder during football

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IT-Band Friction Syndrome…

A case of mistaken identity!

A 44-year-old orthopedist, who we’ll call Dr. Smith, was referred to me complaining of eight months of debilitating, self-diagnosed, IT-band friction pain. During his history intake, he admitted suffering sporadic foot, hip and low back soreness but dismissed these issues as “unrelated.”

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MAT Taps Myofascial Release and More

With a powerful combination of thorough assessment, deep tissue massage techniques, joint mobilization maneuvers, strategic stretches and myofascial release, Erik Dalton’s Technique Tour Online is

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