Category Archives: Massage Therapy Continuing Education
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Back Pain
Posted on October 19, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Back & Spine, bodywork, massage therapy, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Weird Feeling Tuesday, one of our clients came in for a yoga class. As I walked into our classroom she was telling the yoga teacher about her back. She mentioned how she often had pain and “a weird feeling” in the middle of her back. Without thinking I reached out and touched her back. I […]
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Hip Girdle
Posted on October 12, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, Articles, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Back, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Hip Girdle I was in an airport (what else is new) after teaching a fantastic SMRT hip girdle in NY. Typically in any hip girdle class, we have a few people in class who end up with immobilizing lower back pain from having their posterior hips, sacrum, abdomen, and lower back worked. Plantar Flexion This […]
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Gluteal Amnesia
Posted on September 28, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Lower Back, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.Gluteal Amnesia Yesterday I had a new client complaining of lower back pain. “It just hurts right here!” She said, grinding her fist into her right SI joint area. She asked questions throughout the session. I began by working on her abdomen but quickly recognized that her left gluteus maximus muscle had decreased tone. Something […]
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Chronic Headaches
Posted on September 21, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Chronic Headaches Okay, I am going to tell you a funny and mildly graphic and useful story. One of my clients has chronic, intense headaches. She messaged me last week begging for an appointment. She had gone to the doctor, gotten pills, taken them, and felt the headache was worse instead of better. I am […]
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Pectoralis Major
Posted on September 14, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, bodywork, massage therapy, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Pectoralis Major Let’s talk about pectoralis major. Recently I taught an SMRT lower extremities course. During classes therapists/students finish their trades at slightly different times. There was a table in the room that finished with about 5 minutes left before I called time. The person working began to work on a tender spot their partner […]
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Erythema Nodosum
Posted on September 7, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, bodywork, Legs, Lower Leg, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Erythema Nodosum One of my newer clients has erythema nodosum, a condition in which any pressure through touch on the lower leg causes tender nodules in the subcutaneous fat that can take weeks to resolve. Typically this condition resolves itself in a few weeks. This client has had it for years. Her pain complaints are […]
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Thyroidectomy & Vertigo
Posted on August 31, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, Back & Spine, bodywork, Head & Neck, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Thyroidectomy What happened in SMRT class in Pittsburgh? So much!! First, we had a therapist in class who had a thyroidectomy. The scar tissue in the front of her neck was pulling her chin and trachea inferior and posterior. On Saturday, we did SMRT for the anterior neck and I did some extra work on […]
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Relief without Pain
Posted on August 24, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Relief Without Pain Imagine a world in which you, as a massage therapist, could change the tone of piriformis or psoas without using pressure or causing pain to the client, in a way that creates tonal balance from right to left and lasts. That is world of SMRT. A couple of years ago I met […]
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Thumb Pain
Posted on August 3, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Arm & Hand, bodywork, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Thumbs up! I had an interesting thing happen during a session today. I was working on a client’s shoulder. Her pain complaint was her right thumb. She is a long time client, so we know that typically to alleviate the pain in her thumb, her shoulder needs to be worked. Her right scapula was immobile, […]
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Deep Tissue Issue
Posted on July 13, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Deep Tissue Issue This year I moved my practice out of my house and into an office. I decided to expand and hire other therapists, an acupuncturist, and a personal trainer. The philosophy of the SMRT Pain Relief Center is pain relief and management. Done through a combination of bodywork and exercise designed for each […]
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Abduction & Adduction
Posted on July 7, 2018 by Dawn in Arm & Hand, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Hand Work A few months ago, I taught an SMRT arm & hand course. We were exploring how to increase our knowledge of the hand, working with muscles, connective tissues, and bones. One of the therapists fell into a deep state of relaxation while on the table. Her partner was working on her left thumb. […]
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Another Client’s Shoulder Pain
Posted on June 22, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Shoulder Pain Yesterday I was working on a new client with shoulder pain. When we started he said he believed it was time for him to see his MD. He was concerned he had a tear or a spur somewhere. His pain was mostly in his left middle deltoid, and it was consistent and limiting. […]
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SMRT Headache Relief
Posted on June 15, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Back & Spine, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.SMRT Headache Relief One of my clients this week was suffering with an intense headache that had begun almost 10 days before she came to see me. She had tried numerous things for relief, but did not get any relief. In the assessment I felt decreased mobility throughout her c-spine, tension in the suboccipital muscles, […]
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Shoulder, Chest & Axilla
Posted on June 8, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.Implant Work I just got back from teaching an SMRT shoulder girdle class in Fargo where a really cool thing happened. We had a woman in class, maybe late 50’s who went through breast cancer treatments about 5 years ago. She had a unilateral mastectomy on the left, 7 nodes removed, chemo, and radiation. Then […]
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SMRT Head & Neck Pressure
Posted on June 1, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.SMRT Pressure This morning I worked on a woman who had shoulder and neck pain. She does not like pressure of any kind. She comes to me because SMRT is gentle, painless, and highly effective. When I first touched her superior and posterior right shoulder, she squirmed and scrunched up her face. I worked around […]
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Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique
Posted on May 18, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique SMRT stands for Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, which is a positional release modality. When teaching SMRT, we do not subscribe to protocols. Each client is different and in need of a treatment that fits their body story and their individual needs. A student/therapist recently said this: “I so, so, so appreciate […]
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Cold & Sinus Problems
Posted on May 11, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Sinus Trouble, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Cold & Sinus Problems I did the coolest thing on a client today. The client came in having had a cold and a sinus infection for a few weeks. The sinus infection had cleared with the antibiotics, but she still had an airy cough. My first thought when I hear this is that anterior scalene […]
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SMRT & Foot Pain
Posted on May 4, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, bodywork, Feet, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Foot Pain Last week I worked on a teenage girl with foot pain. She had not had a direct injury, just foot pain. When I began, her metatarsals had extremely limited space between them and she was very tender. Mild pressure elicited a squeal of pain. SMRT allows me to get results using very light […]
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SMRT Student Experiences
Posted on April 27, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Arm & Hand, bodywork, Lower Back, Lower Extremities, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.17 Years of Pain! I just finished teaching our SMRT head & neck, arm & hand block. We had a couple of interesting things come up for the therapists/students in class. One woman came to class in severe pain that apparently began after the birth of her youngest child…..17 years ago!….and has not let up […]
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SMRT Shoulder Movements
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.SMRT Shoulder Movements This morning I had a client come in with shoulder pain. It had developed about a week ago, she said, while sitting at work doing nothing. The following day it was worse so she went to the chiropractor, which helped a little, and now it had moved into her upper back. I […]
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