Scar Tissue Massage Technique

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Scar Tissue Massage employs three basic massage technique concepts: depth, pressure, and movement. Depth refers to progressively deeper layers of soft tissue organized according to fascial or connective tissue planes. These planes, or layers, reflect tissue movement in terms of how the planes serve the range of motion in an area: free or restricted. Fascial [...]

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Scar-Tissue Massage Research

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This technique effectively reduces adhesions in the scar-tissue matrix resulting in accelerated return to full muscle function and freer range of motion. Research on wound healing supports the efficacy of scar-tissue massage and points toward the benefits of the inclusion of this technique in post-injury and post-surgical situations. Scar-tissue formation, while absolutely necessary to the [...]

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Hypertonicity Defined, Effects Explained

March 3, 2012

The function of muscle tone is primarily two-fold: to stabilize the joints both statically and dynamically and to circulate fluids through the body’s tissues, functioning as the ‘return heart’. ‘Statically’ refers to stabilizing the joints with the body at rest: sleeping, sitting, where levels of muscle tone required to stabilize the joints would be relatively [...]

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The Physiology of Selfishness vs Self-Sabotage, Part Two

March 3, 2012

As we established in Part One, selfishness means I want the most for me, or more to the point, I choose the most for me. Furthermore, true selfishness requires that I consider other people and circumstances in order to get the most from them. Now we’ll look at how this plays out physiologically in the [...]

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Selfishness vs Self-Sabotage, Part One

February 8, 2012

We live in an insane culture and society. That is not my opinion, that is a physiological fact. It is important to understand how and why that statement is true because it affects the health and the structural relationships within our bodies, and thus our clients’ bodies. One of many perspectives to understand this is [...]

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Degenerative Disc Disease

January 23, 2012

Among the back problems we and our clients experience is a situation allopathic medicine refers to as ‘Degenerative Disc Disease’. From our perspective here at LMD, the only word out of those three that is applicable to the situation is ‘Disc’. The disc here is of course an intervertebral disc, and it is made of [...]

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Expectations

January 16, 2012

Note: We’ve run into a minor glitch on our website and my replies to your comments haven’t posted to the website lately. We’ll have that resolved in the next day or two. I got an email from one of you and would like to make it today’s subject: “The whole ‘no expectations of results’ that [...]

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Pleurisy

December 26, 2011

Greetings All and Happy Holidays One of you asked in an email: “Any chance you can address your take on Pleurisy? (especially not virally caused) And, what a treatment may look like….It’s really frustrating doing research when there’s all this Western medicine point of view – I was trying to look at pleurisy as not [...]

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Inflammation: Cause or Symptom?

December 19, 2011

Inflammation is for the most part looked upon by the health care community as an entity more or less unto itself. Inflammation may be accompanied by other conditions, but it is usually seen as its own aspect and exists coincidentally with the other conditions. I see inflammation as both a result of certain situations and, [...]

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‘Energy’ in Massage Therapy – Part 2

December 12, 2011

As the last blog suggested, there is a singularity of thought and purpose that is characteristic of creating effective energy, and it begins as an internal process/phenomenon on the part of the bodyworker. Here we will look at the energetic interaction between the therapist and client, and how to use that for therapeutic effect. There [...]

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