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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “research”

foam rolling the plantarflexors

Extrapolating from a Research Study – Foam Rolling Increases Joint ROM

I would like to use this research study and article as a launching board for how we interpret and apply the results of a research study.

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absence of evidence is not evidence of absence - parachute study

Absence of Evidence – Do Parachutes Actually Help Skydivers?

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!

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Text Neck Posture. Permission Joseph E. Muscolino. www.learnmuscles.com.

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.

Cervical spinecervicocranial musclesForward headforward head carriageHypolordosishypolordotic spineNeck painpostural dysfunctionpostureresearchtext neck
Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg and The Art of Massage and massage myths

John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), best known for his corn flakes, was an American physician who pioneered health food movement in the late 19th century, and also wrote a book on The Art of Massage.

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Massage therapy to the posterior leg - contralateral work.

Massage Therapy Promotes Muscle Regrowth Even on Opposite Leg

A research study has shown that massage therapy increases growth of muscle tissue after an injury, even on the opposite, non-massaged side of the body.

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Walt Fritz

An Interview with Walt Fritz, Manual Therapy Continuing Education Instructor

Are we really able to singularly and specifically isolate fascia…, to the exclusion of all other tissue… to create change? To that I am quite uncertain.

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Stretching the low back

Effect of Stretching on Fascial Injury and Movement Restriction

Research has shown that fascial injury with resultant movement restriction caused loss of fascial mobility on the opposite side of the body..

adhesionsfacial restrictionfasciaresearchresearch studyrestrictionstretchingthoracolumbar
hip flexor stretch at the end of the table

Does stretching change the myofascial tissue itself?

Long-term stretching seems to occur mostly at a sensory level of the nervous system versus the mechanical properties of the muscle-tendon complex itself.

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Piriformis stretch - improves heart function

Cardiovascular Responses to Skeletal Muscle Stretching

Emerging evidence suggests that short-term or long-term stretching exercise may have beneficial cardiovascular responses.

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Psoas major crosses the hip, sacroiliac, and spinal joints

Psoas Major Function: Summary of Psoas Major Function

Looking at the psoas major from a biomechanical perspective might be the key to understanding this elusive and controversial muscle.

biomechanicsfunctioniliopsoaskinesiologypsoaspsoas majorresearch
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