This odd muscle may be causing your hand to go numb...
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Subclavius posticus: an anomalous muscle in association with suprascapular nerve compression in an athlete
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Interesting Research on Soft-Tissue Treatments
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There are many ways to approach the treatment of musculoskeletal pain, so when researchers are designing massage protocols, most often what is used is general techniques applied to non-specific areas delivered when muscles were placed in a resting, or neutral position.
Read MoreBooks About Pain
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Books About Pain
- The Brain That Changes Itself. Norman Doidge. (2007)
- Understanding Pain. Fernando Cervero. (2012)
- A Nation in Pain - Judy Foreman (2012)
- Explain Pain. Lorimer Moseley and David Butler (2003)
- Pain: The science and culture of why we hurt. Marni Jackson (2003)
- Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery. Cathryn Jakobson Ramin (2017)
Plantar Flexor Stretch Training: Clinical Tidbit
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The movements you do and the lifestyle you choose influences the form that tissue takes, stretch training is a viable modality to stimulate architectural adaptation.
Preliminary findings suggest stretch training is a viable way to stimulate architectural adaptation. Changes in the passive elastic properties and ROM induced by stretch training is due to both increases in stretch tolerance AND changes in passive properties of muscle.
Read MoreAugust 2017 - monthly list of noteworthy finds
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A monthly list of recent noteworthy finds applicable to massage therapy. Posts are designed to be short and will go out the first friday of every month. As always, please let me know your requests and suggestions through email or social media.
Read MoreHow do you know that what you know is true? That’s epistemology
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"How do you know what the weather will be like tomorrow? How do you know how old the Universe is? How do you know if you are thinking rationally?"
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