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  1. Connections

    ... the previous article (November/December 2008, page 52) ended with our fingers deep in the iliotibial (IT) band. The demonstrated techniques ... full extension, but the therapist should also be skilled in working with the deeper restrictions in the joint itself by using mobilization ...

  2. Massage and its Benefits

    ... some, massage therapy is a short-term intervention to help with injury and rehabilitation. For others, massage is their salve to reduce ... Weimin Zhang, and Evidence for Massage Therapy (EMT) Working Group. “The Impact of Massage Therapy on Function in Pain ...

  3. The Body Remembers

    ... Problems affecting your clients today may have more to do with how they were positioned in utero or aspects of their early childhood ... went away. He finally forgot all about the incident. In working with Mark, I found that his right intrascapular muscles were only ...

  4. Active Isolated Stretching: The Mattes Method, Part 2

    By Ben E. Benjamin with Jeffrey P. Haggquist Originally published in Massage & Bodywork ... have shown similar, striking changes. In addition to working on muscles, AIS also helps to develop healthy joints. When the ... femoris (hip and knee joints), the gastrocnemius (knee and ankle joints), and the psoas (hip joint and multiple joints in the low back). ...

  5. Comfort Touch

    ... have been a part of this journey of discovery about massage with the elderly and the ill. The Beginning My story began in 1984. I ... work for which most massage therapists are trained, I was working with those who were bedridden or had limited mobility. So I worked with ...

  6. Making Sense of Back Pain, I

    ... Grieve has explained how a patient presenting with pain, loss of functional movement, or altered patterns of strength, power, ... of normal function. What’s loose, what’s tight, what’s working adequately, and what’s not (and why)? In other words, how well is ...