I have compiled a new article for a special – Fibromyalgia-focused issue of the January/February 2017 issue of MASSAGE & BODYWORK. Entitled “How Breath Can Impact Your Client’s Fibromyalgia Pain,” here is a brief sample:
Articles
The Importance of Dosage in Manual Therapy
Originally published in Massage Today. Research is slowly beginning to reveal the importance of optimal dosage in...
Positional Release Techniques: What are the Mechanisms?
Originally published in Massage Today, January, 2016, Vol. 16, Issue 01 At its simplest, positional release techniques...
We Have Much to Learn from Current Fascia Research
Originally published in Massage Today, July, 2015, Vol. 15, Issue 07 Fascia is fashionable. Over the past few years, you may have noticed the increase in conferences, congresses, symposia, workshops, online courses, books and articles that contain the word fascia in...
Modifying the effects of cerebral palsy: The Gregg Mozgala story (JBMT)
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Breathing Pattern Disorders and Back Pain (Journal of Osteopathic Medicine)
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Guide
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Soft tissue manipulation: diagnostic and therapeutic potential
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Report: Effective Treatments for Fibromyalgia
Author’s Note: Because examination of a particular method is included in this review, it should not be taken as a recommendation for its use. This discussion is an exercise in reporting what is being claimed in what appear to be responsible publications, by a wide...
Biodynamic and Biomechanical cranial approaches compared
Same action, different interpretation of effect An example of something unconnected to cranial work may help in understanding how identical (apparently) actions in cranial manipulation might be interpreted quite differently. A Western trained manual therapist or...
Positional Release Self Care for Soreness and Other Pains
Originally published here. If your patients are anything like mine, they will report to you that there is commonly a degree of discomfort, soreness or stiffness a day or so following manual treatment no matter how gentle or appropriate that treatment might have been....
Research: Sport, Pelvic Pain and Associated Symptoms
Originally published in Massage Today July, 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 07 There is abundant research linking pelvic pain, and associated urinary tract symptoms, with various sporting activities. The studies reported on in this brief review are offered as a caution -...
New Evidence of Breathing and Body/Mind Balance
Originally published in Massage Today February, 2010, Vol. 10, Issue 02 A few years back (2002), I co-authored a book on breathing: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Breathing Pattern Disorders. My co-authors (a physical therapist and a psychologist specializing in pain...
Manual Therapy Choices: A General Approach to Parkinson’s Disease From Massage Today December 2008
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MET Variations: Possible Neurological Mechanisms from Edition VOD (Germany)
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