Manual therapists routinely use bones as levers to reduce tension and protective spasm in hypertonic muscles. For example, the femur and humerus are excellent tools for stretching tight hip and shoulder girdle muscles, and we commonly rotate and sidebend a client’s head to relieve neck tension.
The obliquus capitis inferior (OCI) muscles may be the most underappreciated of all the suboccipitals. Arising from the spinous process of C2 (axis) and inserting on the transverse process of C1 (atlas), their primary function is head-on-neck rotation…
The second cervical vertebra, the axis, is considered the most important of all the neck’s bony structures partly due to its unique dural membrane attachment and also because of the powerful myofascial structures…
The miracle of motherhood is eloquently expressed when observing how perfectly the female body is designed to conceive, birth, and nurture a child. Following conception, a woman and her unborn baby unite in an oceanic blend of energy and identity. Where one ends and the other begins no one knows.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XFOzZMDqzCM From Advanced Upper Body course Assessing Forward Head Posture A recent study by Kenneth Hansraj, MD, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine
Engaging the brain, freeing the fascia According to Cambridge Dictionary, the verb enhance means “to improve the quality, amount or strength of something.” Similarly, in
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XFOzZMDqzCM From Advanced Upper Body course No therapeutic approach to pain management is satisfactory until body posture is generally improved. Whatever the cause of the
https://youtu.be/AjImkYyA-Xg From Technique Tour course During adolescence, most of us recall our mother’s marching orders to “Stand up straight!” Fortunately, standing up straight wasn’t a
by Erik Dalton Ph.D. Last year at the Third International Fascial Research Congress in Vancouver, 800+ participants silently listened and watched as Raul Rodriques PT
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