Dynamic Balance
May 7, 2007
Get It Started
I recently went to see the human body exhibit at the Orlando science center. I had long heard much about the display and with the recent seminar on lymph drainage I had genuinely hoped to gain some further insight. Well I was certainly disappointed in regards to the availability of a dissection of the lymphatic system I was not disappointed in the dissections of the other systems. I was spell bound by the availability of dissections, models and views of the human body. I most certainly lost track of time and it was certainly a information overload. I left some 4 or 5 hours later mentally numb from the influx of information. I was struck most profoundly with the realization of how pervasive the water content of the body is. While the anatomy of the allowed me tremendous size, location, attachments and proximity. I was taken aback at the thickness or lack thereof. While I knew that in truth the musculature of the human body is relatively thin. It amazed me to see the muscles without the “filling and expanding” influence of blood and other fluids. It left me with the profound realization that we are lattices, patterns, restraining webs of “mostly” water. My mind began to race with the ramifications of bodywork on a mostly liquid medium. But then it dawned on me. That is essentially what lymph work is about; treating the liquid body.
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“In men about 72% of the body mass is water. This value is about 68% in women due to a higher proportion of body fat. This is the total body water..”
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Body Balancing of Central Florida
Marketing a new service is a difficult prospect even under the best conditions. Being in a profession that does not lend it self well to print media does not make it any easier. Word of mouth is without a doubt the best medium for bodywork of all kinds. The testimonial ranks supreme followed closely by the friendly referral. But what about trying to get actual ear time with other professionals especially physicians. The science is there and I know from practice that LDT is a viable therapy and has many benefits. But how can I get their attention to prove to them it is not snake oil? Snail mailing information just waste stamps, it has no grab and it ends up as a G file fodder. Personal visit? Again a waste. You can’t ever get past the receptionist, and you never get a return call. E-mail? Spam list is the honest marketers hell! It would seem that patient testimonial and referral would be the first step to getting those critical 5 seconds of interest.
So far the best way to market has been booths at local events and salons to give chair massage away in the chance I might display the skills I am offering. The free sample defines my work more clearly than any print advertising.
So if you have to opportunity to encounter me at an event or salon. Please allow me the honor of demonstrating my skills and truly bless me by asking a question.
See you at the Bike & Blues in St. Cloud the weekend of May 5th!!
Preemptive actions
When typing, writing, reading, etc., the patient should keep the upper arm vertical, with the elbow behind the plane of the chest and not projected forward. Whenever possible, an armrest of suitable height should support the elbow.
By fully extending and holding the extension of the biceps it allows the biceps to stretch and ease its pull on the triceps. Adding a slight outer rotation of the thumb during this stretch improves the stretch.
Muscle of the month
The triceps is a long, broad muscle with three branches or heads. Hence the “tri” part of its name. It balances the biceps & brachialis in the front, the deltoids (shoulder pads) on the shoulder, the pectoralis major (chest muscle) and the lats (down the side and wrapping to the backbone). Where it counter-balances the lats and pect major in one motion it also aids them in turning the arm/hand across the front of the body (humeral adduction). It is a phasic skeletal muscle so it weakens when overloaded and stressed. Subsequently it allows the muscle overloading it to shorten and the triceps to become elongated and weak.
As made visible in the picture (thanks to
Travel & Simons) the TrP’s (Trigger points) are not only fou
nd as is
common in the muscle belly but also in the tendinous attachment at the
elbow. Unlike some other muscles where it radiates the generalized achiness
of a TrP to a distant location, these are relatively local to the TrP
itself. Pain referred from the triceps brachii to the vicinity of the elbow
joint maybe mistakenly attributed to arthritis. Since pain from this muscle
may focus on the back of the arm and extend into the hand, it is sometimes
erroneously thought to result from a C7 radiculopathy (Doctors
use the term radiculopathy to specifically describe pain, and other symptoms
like
numbness, tingling, and
weakness
in your arms or legs that are caused by a problem with your nerve roots.).
The deep front arm line (Tom Myers)is a line of pronation and supination (turning your thumb over or back) it is often an over looked aspect of rolled shoulder syndrome common to those that work on computers for lengthy periods of time. Simply leaning back from your computer periodically to stretch can provide tremendous relief and prevention to a host of postural problems and subsequent pathologies.
Case Study
“Jane” an 86 year old woman called me for massage after a fall in her home that crushed her elbow. She complained of weakness, numbness and pain in the 4th and 5th fingers with an accompanying inability to fully extend the forearm. She had her arm in a sling for a 2 months while the elbow healed from the surgery that was needed to put the pins and plates in that hold her crushed elbow together. Pronation stretching to open the fascia of the deep front arm line to reduce the forward roll of the shoulder and direct friction work on the extensors reduced the tensioned pulling on the triceps muscle and corresponding Trigger points (TrP) it developed. After 3 months of work balancing the tissue, the shoulder is closer to normal, she can fully extend her arm at will and now is regaining the ability to sign her name with that hand