Anatomy
What You Need to Know About Orthopedic Massage Certification
How Orthopedic Massage Can Support Your Massage Practice Even licensed massage therapists need additional advanced trainings like a Orthopedic Massage certification to deepen their massage practices. Exploration in modalities like orthopedic massage therapy allows student-therapists to practice assessment and evaluation, critical tools in understanding a client’s problem – and treating it. What to know more?…
Read MoreMuscle-specific Deep Tissue Massage: The Sacro-Iliac Joint
What a fascinating world that of the sacro-iliac is! By David Lauterstein The SI Joint is the transitional joint from the axial to the appendicular system. On a deeper level, the axial system is, in a sense, who we are and the appendicular can be viewed as how we interact with the world around us.…
Read MoreHow to Improve the Effectiveness of Your Back Massage
Muscle Specific Deep Tissue Techniques Can be Integrated into Any Session By Brian Utting The phrase ‘deep tissue work’ is used in so many contexts that it’s hard to know what it means anymore. To some practitioners, ‘deep tissue’ simply means deep pressure. To others, it has more fascial, myofascial, or structural connotations. Muscle-Specific Deep…
Read MoreTips & Tricks to Empower Your Massage Clients: Self-Massage for the Wrists
Educating Your Clients in Self-care is a Powerful Way to Support Their Health – and Your Business We put together this video as a tool to share with your massage clients to help them understand how to perform self-massage for the wrists and feel empowered to help manage their own aches and pains between sessions…
Read MoreFive Helpful Anatomy Apps for Massage Therapists (and Students)
Whether you are just starting as a massage student are are already a therapist, there is no reason to be overwhelmed by anatomy. Why? Because technology affords today’s bodyworkers so many mobile resources. Here are some of our favorite anatomy apps for massage therapists and students, alike! Learn Muscles: Anatomy Quiz and Reference by RealBodywork…
Read MoreLEARNING ANATOMY – CURSE? THEN A BIGGER BLESSING!
Anatomy is a sacred genesis. We ought not consider the organs of the body as the lifeless forms of a mechanical mass, but as the living, active instruments of the soul.” – Pehr Henrik Ling When people first start massage school they are thrilled to give and receive massages, but sometimes students are not so…
Read MoreTHE LOW BACK AND THE ERECTOR SPINAE
Re-root the back! By David Lauterstein The back does so much for us – helping us stand, twist, turn, bend forward and back. It’s no surprise the back requires a complicated interweaving and interaction of many muscles. One of the main groups is called the erector spinae. I never understood the erector spinae until I…
Read MoreA Brief History of Anatomy Trains
Tom Myers, the founder of Anatomy Trains, says: “I developed the Anatomy Trains during the 1990’s as a game for students to play when I was teaching Fascial Anatomy at the Rolf Institute . All the books you can find put forward the ‘single-muscle’ theory, but Ida Rolf kept saying, “It’s all connected through the…
Read MoreAnatomy Trains Comes to Austin!
Anatomy Trains is a unique map of the ‘anatomy of connection’ – whole-body fascial and myofascial linkages. The Anatomy Trains concept joins individual muscles into functional complexes within fascial planes – each with a defined anatomy and ‘meaning’ in human movement. Anatomy Trains leads to practical new holistic strategies to improve stability, coordination, and resolve…
Read MoreAnatomy Review: Massage for the Scalenes
The scalenes are actually the uppermost of the intercostals muscles, those muscles lying between your ribs that assist inhalation and exhalation. However, big surprise, there are no ribs in the neck! Actually a number of books say the scalenes attach to the vestigial ribs of the cervical vertebrae. That is, little buds appear on the…
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