Comprehensive oral healthcare requires more than treating tooth decay; it requires assessing how oral structures interact with the head, neck and masticatory muscles.
How to Actually Choose a Calorie Tracker You’ll Still Be Using in Six Months
Most people don’t quit calorie tracking because logging food is hard. They quit because the tool they picked was wrong for them…
Thoracic Hyperkyphosis – The Critical Component of Upper Crossed Syndrome
For most of our clients who present with the postural distortion pattern known as upper crossed syndrome, it is important, perhaps absolutely necessary, to include thoracic spinal joint mobilization technique into extension as part of the treatment plan to address the thoracic hyperkyphosis.
FREE DCOMT video – One Handed Towel Traction for the Neck with Shoulder Girdle Stabilization
Traction for the cervical spine is indicated for the client with a pinched nerve in the neck because it opens up the intervertebral foramina to decompress the spinal nerves. Dr. Joe Muscolino demonstrates how to easily perform neck traction using a towel.
Structural Impact of Wisdom Tooth Extraction on the Masseter Muscle and Temporomandibular Joint with Smile By Design
After wisdom tooth extraction, patients commonly report localized muscular tension, biting alignment alterations, and altered temporomandibular joint dynamics during the healing phase.
Why Weight Loss Clinics Need a Collaborating Physician
While helping people to lose weight in order to improve their health is the goal of the weight loss clinic, the clinic also must safely treat the patient(s) and follow evidence-based medical protocols for weight loss in order to provide quality patient care.
Deep Pressure Massage to the Low Back – Use Body Weight
An excellent demonstration of the force that can be generated by using body weight is to lean down onto a bathroom weight scale that is placed on a table that is positioned as various heights. Simply relax and lean into the scale with your body weight and notice the force that you generate.
Deep Pressure Massage to the Low Back – Use Stacked Joints
Stacked joints are aligned in a straight line; in other words, the joints are extended as in anatomic position. This allows for the force from your core to travel through your upper extremity and into the client with little or no loss of strength.
The Private Health Questions Men Should Stop Ignoring
While Men’s Health Issues are best discussed in a doctor’s office, you don’t have to suffer in silence. There are ways to treat various health issues affecting men today and to investigate them first before seeking advice.
Breast Reduction Back Muscles Anatomy: Effects and Recovery Guide
Learning about the relationship between breast reduction and back muscles helps set realistic expectations for surgical outcomes and guides effective post-surgical care.
Deep Pressure Massage to the Low Back – Support Your Treatment Contact
Bracing the contact means that the two hands must work together instead of each contacting the client separately. Less area of the client’s body will be covered this way, but stronger and more efficient pressure will be created at the area that is being worked, which is more important when deep pressure is needed.
Deep Pressure Massage to the Low Back – Apply Pressure Perpendicularly
Maximal pressure for the effort used is achieved if the angle of your force into the client is perpendicular to the contour of the region being worked. To apply this concept of working perpendicularly, the client’s back and pelvis can be divided into separate regions based on the curve of each region.
Eye Surgery Options That Can Improve Your Vision
If you want to improve the quality of your life and ensure long-term results, it is important to have a thorough eye examination and realistic expectations.
Growth Hormone and Muscle Recovery: What the Science Actually Shows
Learn how growth hormone affects muscle recovery, collagen synthesis, lean mass and strength, and what research says about medical HGH treatment.
Neck Deep Pressure Massage: Step by Step – Engage the Tissues
Being able to feel tissue tension barrier is the one most crucial aspect for a clinical orthopedic manual therapist performing deep pressure massage. From a mechanical standpoint, it is only pressure beyond the tissue tension barrier that effects therapeutic change (this is not necessarily true neurally).
Neck Deep Pressure Massage: Step by Step – Deep Stroking Massage
When performing deep pressure massage, deep stroking massage must originate from your core by further rocking your pelvis and extending your spine forward. Short deep strokes to the neck between 1 and 2 inches (2-5 centimeters) in length allow you to preserve optimal body mechanics.
Selling Your Own Products as a Manual Therapist: Why Product Photos Matter More Than You Think
The moment you start selling a physical product, you run into a problem most therapists never trained for: taking a product photo good enough to actually sell something.
Bridging Somatic Therapy and Clinical Recovery Programs
Somatic therapy addresses what clinical care often misses by meeting you in your nervous system. It’s not meant to replace clinical work. It’s there to complement it.
Does the Condition Text Neck Exist?
That people aged 18-21 in this study have not yet begun to experience pain as a result of text neck posture does not surprise me at all. They are simply still too young to experience what the physical stress of the overuse of text neck posture will eventually do to them.
Ten Things to Avoid if You Have Lower Limb Tendon Pain
In summary, exercise-based rehabilitation is the best treatment for tendon pain. A progressive program that starts with a strength program and then progresses through to more spring-like exercises, and endurance aspects will give the right loads on the tendon and the best long-term results.
What Manual Therapists Should Understand About ACL Reconstruction
This article is provided as general professional information. It is not intended to be used for individual treatment of a client who has had an ACL reconstruction.
How Couples Navigate Private Health Hurdles Safely
Health problems can range from the ones that are minor to those that can be pretty serious, even if they aren’t life-threatening. And that’s something that can take a toll on a person’s mental health.
Previous Leg Injury Increases Risk of Other Leg Injuries
Once one joint/structure/tissue is injured, compensation patterns usually occur in which the individual offloads physical stress to other areas of the body. This would logically lead to an increased risk of use/overuse/misuse/abuse to these other areas, likely eventually leading to injury.
Neck Deep Pressure Massage: Step by Step – Use Your Core
For deep pressure massage to the neck, align your core with your stroke by laterally (externally) rotating your arm at the shoulder joint so that your elbow is positioned in front of your core. Now lock your elbow into your core just inside (and usually slight above) your anterior superior iliac spine.
5 Nutrition Certificate Programs for Health Coaches Focused on Lifelong Health and Wellness
The five programs here vary considerably. Two take a university-led approach to nutrition science and behaviour change. The others offer shorter routes for professionals who mainly want practical tools for client conversations.
Smart Career Moves for Busy Registered Nurses
If you’re a registered nurse, you already know the job asks a lot from your brain, your feet, and sometimes your patience before breakfast. It’s rewarding, but it can also leave you wondering what comes next.
Neck Deep Pressure Massage: Step by Step – Apply Pressure Perpendicularly
When performing deep pressure massage into the neck, maximal pressure for minimal effort is achieved if the angle of your pressure into the client is perpendicular to the contour of the neck where you are working.
Neck Deep Pressure Massage: Step by Step – Contacts
Even perfect body mechanics cannot eliminate all physical stress to your body when doing massage. Ideal body mechanics merely minimize the stress. For this reason, when doing massage, especially deep pressure massage, it is wise to alternate which treatment hand contact you use during a session.
Why Chronic Disease Management Is Creating New Demands Across Healthcare
Yes, chronic disease has changed what healthcare looks like. Care doesn’t begin when you walk into a clinic. It doesn’t end when you leave. It’s part of everyday life.
TMJ jaw pain: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options
Chronic TMJ problems can repeat themselves. The early evaluation and treatment for your jaw pain can help you find the best ways to manage your symptoms and to protect your jaw from future damage.
