Foam roller massage is quite popular nowadays among athletes and being recommended to patients by many health rehabilitation professionals as an intervention to augment other manual therapies or as a warm-up before an athletic activity, or as a recovery after athletic activity.
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For manual therapists and movement professionals working with clients on fatigue, slow recovery or persistent low energy, understanding this layer adds useful context to what is already being addressed at the tissue level.
The fact that simple stretching for only 10 minutes per day could reduce cancer tumor growth by 52% in this study involving mice is pretty amazing! Being a manual and movement therapy physician, author, and educator, it is clear to me that the human body needs movement. But to see a 52% improvement was incredible!
Once your life is more balanced, it will be easier to maintain a workout routine for the long-term. Not to mention, you won’t be missing out on other aspects of your life — or compromising your health. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to self-care and achieving a healthy lifestyle as everyone has different needs.
Students preparing for the TEAS face four content areas: Reading, Math, Science, and English and Language Usage. You don’t need equal mastery of all of them. What you need is a smarter approach, and these three study tips deliver exactly that.
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The subscapularis is one of the more challenging muscles for manual and movement therapists to work with because it is so deep-seated, but given its role in frozen shoulder, it can be one of the more important muscles when working with our clients.
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A personal treatment plan helps to measure, to be practical and to provide relief of all leg related complaints and concerns for the long term.
There are many facets of a recreational athlete’s hydration strategy that can be controlled to enhance their highest potential. Here are 7 ways to improve your performance by simply paying attention to the following tips.
When working, we place a demand on the body and the body responds by adapting to meet those demands. However, every tissue, has a limit to the mechanical stress that it can accept during physical activity without injury. It would seem likely that the demands of some professions are too great for the human body.
Diabetes is no longer a dreaded condition that confines people to a life of bland foods, self-injections and the constant monitoring of glucose and insulin levels. By observing some basic dietary rules, individuals with diabetes can lead perfectly happy and normal lives.
Cold therapy isn’t going to replace proper rehab or medical care. But if you use it right, it’s a really solid addition to your recovery routine.
Restorative dentistry refers to treatments that maintain, restore, and stabilize teeth that would otherwise be lost or considerably weakened.
This study seems to show a relationship between iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome and knee adduction (genu varum) and the activation of the TFL. A relationship can be two incidents that occur together, termed a “coincidence.” Or there can be a causal relationship between them; i.e., one causes the other to occur.
A proposed biomechanical explanation is that restricted ankle joint dorsiflexion directly results in overpronation of the foot, which causes internal rotation of the lower extremity, which strains the external/abductor musculature, which can then no longer prevent femoral adduction; hence genu valgus.
Let’s have a look at rehabilitation services, including inpatient alcohol and drug detoxification and a variety of outpatient programs for the treatment of a range of behavioral health disorders.
Our goal is to protect the jaw joints, avoid chronic myofascial pain, and promote long-term oral health by prioritizing occlusal health and muscle function.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of the absence. Following is how a research review of the effectiveness of parachutes might be concluded: “There is no conclusive evidence that parachutes are effective at helping skydivers.” Ridiculous? Yes. Yet accurate and absurd!
So, if hip abductor group on one side is tighter at baseline tone than the hip adductor group on that side, the pelvis will be pulled into depression on that side, resulting in a lumbar scoliosis that is convex on that side. Similarly, tight opposite-side hip adductor musculature can cause the same scoliotic curve.
Even after the initial tooth pain has subsided, residual muscle tightness, joint stiffness and secondary cervical tension often remain.
For nurses, anatomy is more than an exam subject. It becomes a practical map used during assessments, procedures, handovers, and emergencies.
And perhaps the biggest problem I have with this study about backpacks and adolescent back pain is that an overuse syndrome usually does NOT cause pain in the early stages. When the body is physically stressed by something like carrying a backpack, it often requires many years before the overuse results in pain.
The results indicated that the mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures in the massage group were significantly lower in comparison with the control group. The results also showed that the lowered blood pressure was still observed 72 hours after the treatment.
Comprehensive oral healthcare requires more than treating tooth decay; it requires assessing how oral structures interact with the head, neck and masticatory muscles.
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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.
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.
After wisdom tooth extraction, patients commonly report localized muscular tension, biting alignment alterations, and altered temporomandibular joint dynamics during the healing phase.
