Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Massage / Pain Management / Pain relief

Massage is an excellent way to help with pain due to chronic conditions from disease, injuries or repetitive movement.  Trigger points are more than likely the culprit and can cause local tenderness and if sufficiently hypersensitive referred pain.  Trigger points are also the reason for stiffness and pain in joints. Trigger point therapy can greatly improve pain levels in people dealing with these conditions.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Nueromuscular Therapy / Trigger Point

"A focus of hyper irritability in a tissue that when compressed is locally tender and if sufficiently hypersensitive gives rise to referred pain and tenderness"  Janet Travell

Trigger point don't exist in health tissue.

Neuromuscular Massage Therapy work focuses on the treatment of trigger points.

More later

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Homeostasis, Health and Soft Tissue

The body's ability to maintain homeostasis is a determining factor in the degree of ones health.  It is important that the mind / body be able adapt and respond to different kinds of stress and maintain a balance with the body's physiological systems.  Maintaining homeostasis is a very important goal to ones health.

Friday, January 10, 2014

Temporal-Mandibular Joint (TMJ)

Many people suffer with TMJ in this high stress world we live in.  Part of my training is to treat this condition using an intraoral technique treating the Masseter, Medial Pterygoid, and the Lateral Pterygoid muscles.  This technique is highly effective in treating this condition.