Category Archives: Massage Therapy Continuing Education
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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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Lower Back Pain
Posted on April 13, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Lower Back, massage therapy, Muscle Pain, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Lower Back Pain A few weeks ago a new client came to me with a complaint of lower back pain. This was not chronic. He had only developed it about a month before, but it was severe enough that he had gone to the doctor and gotten imaging, which did not show the cause of […]
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Knee Inflammation & SMRT
Posted on April 6, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Knees, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Inflammation in the Knee One of my clients, who I had not seen in a few months, came in this week with an inflamed left knee. He was working out and “felt something”. Within an hour, his knee swelled up. The doctor gave him 800mg ibuprofen and told him to rest for a week or […]
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Pelvic Pain and SMRT
Posted on March 30, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Pelvic Pain and SMRT One of the newer clients I have is a 21-year-old girl with severe pelvic pain who has seen multiple doctors. The consensus is that the issue is muscular. The muscles around the tops of her thighs are amazingly tight and painful for her. There are little ways to work on this […]
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SMRT Forearm Work
Posted on March 23, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Arm & Hand, bodywork, Elbow, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.LMT Referral I had a crazy busy week that saw me doing a lot of forearm work. One of the best sessions was a followup session on a fellow massage therapist who came in two weeks ago with left forearm and elbow pain coupled with a loss of grip strength. Apparently this has happened to […]
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SMRT & Neck Pain
Posted on March 16, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Muscle Pain, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Trauma Stored in Body.Neck Pain Recently I worked on a man who told me he had his neck “wired together” about 25 years ago. I think he was talking about a surgery in which they create spinal stabilization by wiring the posterior cervical vertebrae together after trauma. This man was in horrible pain. His ROM in both rotation […]
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It’s all in the Ribs
Posted on March 2, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.It’s all in the Ribs It is crazy how often I am working on a client and the issue is their rib cage. Last week I saw a gentleman whose main complaint was weakness in his left leg and hip pain. At one point in the session he said, “yeah, it all started when I […]
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Hips & Legs
Posted on February 23, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Legs, Lower Leg, massage therapy, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Hips & Legs the SMRT Way Yesterday I saw an elderly gentleman (a very active 81-year-old) complaining of weakness in his left leg. He said it all began when he had open heart surgery over a decade ago. At first, it was his right leg that felt weak and would not support his weight. But, […]
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Headaches & SMRT Works
Posted on February 16, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Headaches For the past several days I have been with friends who are therapists and we have been working on each other. One of the woman I was trading with was having back pain. The first day I was working on her posterior ribs. The ribs on her left side responded to the SMRT I […]
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Working SMRT on the Elbow
Posted on February 9, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Elbow, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Elbow Pain A client yesterday presented with elbow pain and loss of grip strength. Typically, in my experience, loss of grip strength signals a bony misalignment. The pain at the elbow was on the lateral condyle of the humerus. The issue was most likely an extensor muscle. I began by working with his hand, using […]
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Shoulder Pain
Posted on February 2, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Shoulder Pain I did 4 and a 1/2 hours of bodywork in a 5 hour period this morning. Most of this time was spent on shoulders. One of the clients, a regular, came in and asked me to work on her long standing issues of right lateral lower leg and hip pain. About 20 minutes […]
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SMRT Testimonial
Posted on January 26, 2018 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, CE's on DVD, Hips & Sacrum, Massage CE's on DVD, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.SMRT Home Courses I just had a very nice conversation with a therapist who purchased a full body set of SMRT video courses from Full Circle. I asked her to call me because when she took the test for the CE credit for our SMRT: shoulder, axilla, ribcage, & upper back course, I realized that […]
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Relieve Chronic Pain the SMRT Way
Posted on January 19, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Chronic Wrist Pain I have a client with chronic pain in her right wrist. She has been wearing a brace at night to cope. She went to the doctor. Believing it to be soft tissue, they sent her to physical therapy where they focused on the wrist. This is understandable in that her wrist feels […]
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SMRT Move for Psoas
Posted on January 12, 2018 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Questions and Answers, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.SMRT Move for Psoas Two mornings ago I woke up with a pain in my back that felt like a knife was stuck in my back. It was on the right side of my vertebrae at about T7 and T8. I could hardly move my back or my right arm. Breathing was difficult. I had […]
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Working SMRT on the Axillary
Posted on January 5, 2018 by Full Circle in Anatomy, Back & Spine, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Questions and Answers, Ribs, Sinus Trouble, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Relieving Chest Pressure the SMRT Way I had some SMRT work done yesterday. I got sick on December 3rd. It was a strong virus that attacked my sinuses first, quickly traveled into my throat, and eventually landed in my lungs. By the fourth day, the cough began and I coughed until my entire body hurt. […]
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SMRT Head & Neck Pain
Posted on December 29, 2017 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.SMRT Head & Neck Pain Recently, I had a 2-hour session with a regular client. She had recently took a vacation in Mexico. The place they stayed had very hard beds and pillows. Her complaint was an all over headache and neck pain. She was very tight through her neck and head. But the first […]
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Working SMRT on the Hips
Posted on December 22, 2017 by Full Circle in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Working SMRT on the Hips Wednesday I did one of the last massage sessions for 2017. One of the men I saw that day has had 4 surgeries on his right hip. The initial was a full hip replacement, which has been fully redone twice, including this latest surgery, done 6 weeks ago. The surgeon […]
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Let’s Talk About SMRT
Posted on December 1, 2017 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Human Body, Knees, massage therapy, Questions and Answers, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Let’s Talk About SMRT Let’s talk about SMRT (Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique). We call it a bodywork modality and we teach it with a specific set of positions. But, we then tell you to modify every position for the person on the table. So, why do we use a set of positions if you are […]
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SMRT for the Thoracolumbar Fascia
Posted on November 24, 2017 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, SMRT.I was recently working on a client who happens to be a massage therapist. We had worked on each muscle in her abdominal wall as well as iliopsoas. The tension in her abdomen had decreased and the alignment of her hips had greatly improved, but her right lower back tension had increased. SMRT for the […]
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SMRT Hip Techniques
Posted on November 17, 2017 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT.During our SMRT: hips, lower back, & abdomen in Raleigh, NC several things happened. We had a moment in class where we were assessing the alignment of the pubic symphysis on one particular student and we found that her left pubic bone was twisted. We did a specific SMRT position to release the muscles and […]
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