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Body Balancing Massage Therapy - February Issue |
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When making your first break into Solar. The Water Heating system is the best investment. You get the most for your money, with Fed credits, State and utility rebates paying almost have the price tag with a approximately 25% reduction of your power bill monthly financing available :) |
Get it Started By Gary Gammon | ||
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“The Difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.”-Carlos Castaneda
While Carlos was a favorite author of mine, I had not heard this quote until recently. But its truth still resonates. I see this in many new clients. They are "victims" of their injuries or illnesses or blessed by a miracle when it goes away. Often times it has to be a fast and furious miracle to boot. Miracles are often no more than the natural order reasserting itself with a little help. A Healing reality is a little different. Many of my long term clients figured out that it is a process of healing. Having gone through the process and looked back they are amazed "where their head was". Often times I ask my clients what could I have said to you to open this up to you. And their responses are all the same. You have to go through it. You cannot comprehend what you are doing until you see it from the backside. I started with a new client not long ago who suffered from headaches for a period of 2 years or more. She went through the entire western medical model of different physicians, invasive tests, Rx's out the wazoo (wazoo is a medical term please do not use non-judiciously :) with no relief. 1 session and I broke the headache. But the follow up work of continuing to open the causes of the headache puts me into varying depths of tender tissue she didn't know existed and figures she's past it now. There are few miracles, most is simply the culmination of hard work on the part of the patient and the therapist |
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I'll Bet... you are very aware of body language but dismissed it out of hand. Our ancestors lived by watching and reading body language of animals and others. Isolated events of body language can be faked but BL is "listened to in groups" SO if someone is smiling while they have you by the throat they are probably not happy to see you.
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Body Balancing Massage Therapy - Business | ||
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Business for me is a weekly crap shoot. Even with regular clients stuff happens. Subsequently I try not to rise and fall with the daily trends, but instead prefer to look back over a week, a month a year. Daily ups and downs can drive you nuts (again, that is a tech term and not to be used lightly). Much like last months newsletter, projecting the future on the media or a days results can only send you screaming in fear for your life. So taking a deep breath, both figuratively and actually can be a boon for body mind and business. I am going to use this month to talk about chair massage. Accountants, book keepers, listen up. I know this is the busiest season of your year. But staying bent over a computer terminal, books or receipts for hours,.. nay days on end will truly slow you down more than anything. Poor eating habits, fluid intake and chronic high levels of concentration and stress can induce a symptomatic adrenaline overload weakening your immune system and setting you up to get a cold or worse. Then you either HAVE to take time off so you don't get EVERYONE in your office sick, or you are at less than your best. Either way you loose critical time. Can you afford to be out of work or at less than your best because of stress breakdown, cold, or illness? Massage works as a treatment, but best as a preventative! Take the time to bring a LMT (preferably me) into your office to do chair massage. Whether it is self pay, employer pay or some variation of the two it will be a welcome break. Studies show that after a 15 minute chair massage participants were able to complete a math quiz in significantly less time with less errors. You have to see the ROI (return on investment) in that. Not only the above mentioned professions but all of us, are doing more for less to keep ourselves afloat (while the media is trying to "make" the sky fall"). So, as long as we continue to "do" we will pull ourselves out of this downturn.
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Tip: In cases of dehydration a slightly salty solution of water helps tremendously in the rehydraton process. This may be one of the reasons Chicken soup
produces such a good effect on those suffering from flu or cold Water is by far better than sports drinks as the body needs clear fluid for a variety of uses. After the initial is over sports drinks can be very valuable.
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Case Study -
When one tugs at a
single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. " John
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She was a thirty-two-year-old professional tennis coach who had lived with pain in both shoulders ever since she began playing tennis as a child. Diagnosed with rotator cuff tendonitis, Kim had had numerous steroid injections and was going for physical therapy almost weekly. Despite the treatments, pain kept her from playing much of the time. She was very concerned that several of her young players were developing shoulder pain very similar to her own. "I make them play through the pain just like we were told to do at their age," she said. "I'm afraid they'll end -.up as tennis cripples like me, but I don't know what else to do. They want to play so badly." I treated Kim for a period of two months, first deactivating the TrP (trigger Point) in the infraspinatus, and then balancing the corresponding musculature of the shoulder. Afterwards I showed Kim how to self-treat her shoulder with a tennis ball against a wall, she became free of shoulder pain for the first time since the age of fourteen. She felt that the best part about the new trick was that she could passit on to her students. |
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Lymphatic Drainage Therapy | ||
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The LDT aspect of this months case study has to do with tennis shoulder. As you have been able to see from the case study and the muscle information with its corresponding TrP (trigger Point) data this is a problematic muscle. The drainage for this muscle goes right into the axilla (armpit). All the junctions for the shoulder, mid back and upper back go right through the area where the tendon for this muscle attaches to the humerus (arm bone). So when this muscle restricts its pumping action it backs up the flow to the entire shoulder, upper back and lateral midback. Restriction of these areas will store fluid cause congestion and inflict pain. The very movement which would help the musculature pump the fluid out is exactly the movement you don't want to do for the pain it causes. Now all this is assuming that there are no tears or function injuries going on. Function injuries or would create much the same circumstances as restrictions in the lymphatic flow. So in many instances improving lymphatic flow is a critical aspect of the healing process that is over looked by LMT's and PT's alike
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Muscle - Infraspinatus | ||
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The infraspinatus (in-frah-spih-NAH-tus) covers almost all of the shoulder blade below the scapular spine (Figure 5.17). The word infraspinatus means "below the spine." At its outer end, the infraspinatus attaches to the back of the head of the humerus (upper arm bone), giving it the ability to rotate the arm outward, as when you pull your arm back to throw a ball or prepare to make a forehand stroke with a tennis racket. Without outward rotation, the arm can't be raised above the level of the shoulder. The infraspinatus is also a strong participant in keeping the head of the humerus in its socket. The infraspinatus is one of the most frequently afflicted muscles of the body. The infraspinatus is respectively the main mover of the arm in lateral movement (pulling your arm back) it is assisted by the teres minor (small slip of a muscle), the subscapularis (virtually the same size and shape but under the shoulder blade instead of on top like the infraspinatus) and the back of the shoulder muscle (deltoid)
The infraspinatus is an especially sneaky muscle. You'll rarely experience pain in the infraspinatus itself. You'll find yourself rubbing away at the front or outer side of your shoulder, forgetting that infraspinatus trigger points are almost always the cause of pain felt there. You won't know the infraspinatus is the culprit until you press on it.
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Trigger Point: Infraspinatus “Shoulder Joint Pain" | ||
| HIGHLIGHTS: Referred pain from the usual trigger point (TrP) locations in the infraspinatus muscle concentrates deeply in the anterior deltoid region and in the shoulder joint, extending down the front and lateral aspect of the arm and forearm, and sometimes including the radial half of the hand. Pain also may be referred to the suboccipital and posterior cervical areas. An infrequent TrP may refer pain over the adjacent rhomboid muscles. Anatomical Attachments are, medially, to the infraspinous fossa ( a hollow on the bone for the muscle to attach to) of the scapula and, laterally, to the greater tuberosity of the humerus (the big knobby thing on top of the arm). Actions of this muscle include external rotation of the arm at the shoulder (reaching side and back), and stabilization of the head of the humerus in the glenoid cavity during movement of the arm. Symptoms are referred pain when sleeping on either side, inability to reach behind Into a back pocket or to bra hooks and, in front, to comb the hair or brush the teeth. Activation of trigger points usually results from overload while reaching backward and up. Patient examination reveals restriction of internal and external rotation at the shoulder, demonstrated by the Mouth Wraparound and the Hand to shoulder Blade Tests. TrP examination locates active TrP's a centimeter or two (%1 in) below the spine of the scapula, occasionally more caudally towards the feet). Associated Trigger points (TrP)) are commonly found in the supraspinatus, teres minor, anterior and posterior deltoid, biceps brachii, and pectoralis major muscles (these muscles either support or directly oppose the job of the infraspinatus). Corrective actions include elimination of recurrent overload on the muscle, proper positioning in bed at night, self-administered ischemic compression, and self-stretch exercises.
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