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Fixated Facets & Reactive Muscle Spasm

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.

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Stomach-Sleeper’s Headache

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…

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Fig. 2 – Suboccipital Triangle

Suboccipital Triangle & Headaches

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…

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Miracle Of Motherhood

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.

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Text Neck and Desktop Neck

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

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Myoskeletal Enhancers

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

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Puzzle of Perfect Posture

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

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Scoliosis and Massage Therapy

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

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Bullfighting Scar Treated

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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