Case Study – Knee Injury

by admin on May 14, 2013 · 0 comments

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So I thought a case study now and then would make good blogs. Check out this one… The client is a 63 year-old male in good health. He sustained 2 knee injuries (same knee – the right) playing college football which required surgery. Back then the repair work was much more invasive than it is [...]

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ACL Injuries and Dynamic Tensegrity

by admin on April 2, 2013 · 2 comments

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A couple of months ago there was an increase in ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) sprains and tears among NBA players; it’s a good time to review the LMD SportsMassage take on ACL damage. To begin let’s look at the players. The ACL and the PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) are deep in the center of the [...]

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Scar Tissue Massage Technique

March 9, 2012

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

March 9, 2012

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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