Complementary Treatment for a Patient with Frozen Shoulder

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Complementary Treatment for a Patient with Frozen Shoulder

A comprehensive treatment should incorporate a number of rehabilitation strategies for based on patient-specific assessment findings including, but not limited to:
• Manual Therapy (neurodynamic mobilization, classic massage, joint mobilizations)
• Acupuncture/ electroacupuncture (local, segmental and distal stimulation sites)
• Education on psychosocial factors (eg. BPS framework of pain, fear avoidance)
• Remedial Loading Programs (eg. static stretching, concentric, eccentric, isometric)

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Massage Therapy and Post-Surgical ACL Injuries

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Massage Therapy and Post-Surgical ACL Injuries

There is a wide spectrum when it comes to the ACL injuries, from a minor tear to the dreaded O’Donoghue unhappy triad. Named after Dr. DH O’Donoghue the American orthopedic surgeon who first described the injury in 1950.

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Auricular Acupuncture for Pain Management

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Auricular Acupuncture for Pain Management

Acknowledging that traditional narratives outdated, medical acupuncture is an approach that is based upon a theory that is inline current scientific understanding of how the body works. Reframing auricular acupuncture form of peripheral nerve stimulation technique in which acupuncture needles are inserted into anatomically defined sites, and stimulated manually or with electricity.

Image Credit - Wouterhagens at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1928803

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If you are a massage therapist wanting to align yourself with physicians, now is the time!

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If you are a massage therapist wanting to align yourself with physicians, now is the time!

Massage therapy as a therapeutic intervention is being embraced by the medical community, it is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects. If you are a massage therapist wanting to align yourself with physicians, now is the time!

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Acupuncture: Review of the evidence

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Acupuncture: Review of the evidence

Acupuncture is a treatment that can be traced back more than 4,000 years. Most people associate acupuncture with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), but it is important to be aware that Acupuncture and TCM are not tethered at the hip.

There have been many different approaches to acupuncture throughout the world. 

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Here are some things you should know if someone faints after a massage

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Here are some things you should know if someone faints after a massage

One minute you’re standing there, the next minute you wake up with a crowd of people gathered around. All you can think is “why are all these people staring at me”?

As unnerving as that is, the next question is “what the hell just happened”?

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