Selfishness vs Self-Sabotage, Part One

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

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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Using ‘Energy’ in Massage Therapy

December 5, 2011

“Energy Work” in massage therapy usually refers to therapeutic massage in which the technique is physically minimal on the practitioner’s part, often not even touching the client’s body. This can be misleading because all bodywork of any type is energy work, since everything is energy. Things without energy don’t exist in the physical, relative universe. [...]

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Temporal Mandibular Joint Dysfunction

November 28, 2011

Temporal mandibular joint dysfunction is one of those issues similar rotator cuff problems in that we all have it, it’s a question of how bad is it. At some point Western medicine will consider patient’s complaint classifiable as TMJ: basically when you go to a doctor and complain. Like any chronic pain, there is a [...]

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Psoas – With A Piriformis Cameo

November 21, 2011

Back by popular demand, I’m revisiting psoas, that muscle all WMTI folk came to know and love. Ah yes, psoas, a five-letter word some bodyworkers feel is a four-letter word in drag. Let’s start with a little history. Many therapists dislike working psoas because they were taught the stupid dive-bomb technique. Forget it. It doesn’t [...]

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Trigger Finger

November 13, 2011

‘Trigger Finger’ refers to a condition where flexing and extending one or more fingers has a ‘step’ in the action, sometimes a ‘lock’, rather than a continuous smooth movement. Pain is often but not always present through the ‘step’. Interestingly, passive movement through range of motion most often produces no ‘step’ or ‘lock’; the movement [...]

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