Have you ever noticed your fingers cramping or forearms slipping along the client’s skin when attempting to apply deep-tissue techniques? Here we'll deconstruct a few hand and forearm maneuvers.
Every session holds the promise of a lesson to be learned from every client encounter. One of the most powerful opportunities for deepening our understanding comes from the questions clients may ask.
“Anatomy education needs to move beyond memorization of origins, insertions, and organ systems, to the interconnectivity of the human body. The goal of the Fascial Net Plastination Project is to reveal the whole system."
What happens when muscles become too entangled in their muscle groups? Focusing on the fascia that surrounds and separates muscles can help in a number of ways.
Every client, every session, every day is an opportunity for assessing and reassessing, and from that comes mastery, growth, and progress for our clients and the profession.
Using verbal cues while the client is in a relaxed state and open to suggestion can lead clients in pain to favorably reinterpret the nociceptive (danger-signaling) input.
After a full day working with clients, massage therapists can develop their own sore, stiff muscles. Using a foam roller before and after a workday can help alleviate some of those pains.
Kinesiology tape uses medical-grade adhesive to create a microscopic space between the skin and the tissues underneath it, influencing the movement of fluids in the dermal and superficial fascia layers.
Ligaments are dense connective tissue structures composed of elastin that provides a degree of pliability and flexibility, and collagen that gives the tissue tensile strength.
