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

Lateral view of the Iliotibial Band (ITB)

Can the Iliotibial Band (ITB) be stretched?

There seems to be a belief that the iliotibial band (ITB) cannot be stretched and thus manual treatment on the ITB is futile.

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Stretching the low back

Feeling back stiffness may be all in the head, not in the back

Feelings of back stiffness may be a subjective protective construct of the mind, rather than reflecting objective biomechanical properties of the back.

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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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sustained compression into the quadratus lumborum

Can massage lessen pain at myofascial trigger points?

The authors concluded that single and multiple massage treatment applications can decrease a client’s pain at myofascial trigger points.

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Posterior and cross-section views of the thoracolumbar fascia

Can manual therapy alter the thoracolumbar fascia?

To believe that manual therapy cannot affect the structure of thoracolumbar fascia is to deny the fundamental characteristic of soft tissue known as creep!

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systemic and neural inflammation with fibromyalgia

Evidence of both systemic and neural inflammation in fibromyalgia patients

This study provides a concrete evidence for an extensive inflammatory profile in fibromyalgia patients. This dispels the myth that it is all psychogenic.

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clinical orthopedic massage of the low back

Real-World Massage Therapy is Effective for Treating Lower Back Pain

After 12 weeks, more than half of the patients reported improved outcomes in terms of pain reduction, and meaningful physical and mental improvement.

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Watching massage improves outcomes

Watching your back being massaged improves outcomes

A study from Germany investigated whether watching one’s back during massage increases the analgesic effect of this treatment for lower back pain patients.

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Osteoarthritis (OA) of the right knee

Osteoarthritis Isn’t Just Wear And Tear

The study published shows that even correcting for body mass index and age, osteoarthritis of the knee is twice as common now as it was before the 1950s.

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