Category Archives: Massage Therapy Continuing Education
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SMRT as Continuing Education for Personal Trainers
Posted on June 16, 2017 by Amber McClincy in Anatomy, Feet, Human Body, Knees, Legs, Lower Extremities, Physiology, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.In May, I became a certified personal trainer. I did this mainly to add value to my teaching and the SMRT video streaming service. I also did this because several states have prohibited bodyworkers from giving clients stretches or exercises and I think more will follow suit. I feel like the exercise piece is the […]
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Correcting Cervical Issues
Posted on June 9, 2017 by Amber McClincy in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.About 9 days ago I was shooting video for the streaming video service. My videographer mentioned that he was sorry he had been delayed but he had gotten a migraine. He said that he only began to get migraines about a year ago. If I’m honest here, I was hardly listening. When we are shooting […]
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Have You Ever Worked on Someone with a Knee Replacement?
Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dawn in Articles, Knee Replacements, Knees, Legs, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Special Issues, Special Offers, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Have you ever worked on someone with a knee replacement? I’m full body trained in SMRT, so I know how to work on a knee. From the bones to the most superficial tissues, I got this! But what do you do when ligaments have been removed? When muscles have been cut and tendons stretched? When […]
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Forward Head Posture Creating Back “Hump”
Posted on December 1, 2016 by SMRT in Back & Spine, Head & Neck, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.About 10 days ago, I had a 2-hour session booked with a regular client. She told me I should focus on her back and her neck, that her “hump was killing” her. I spent almost an hour and a half unlocking her back, sacrum, and posterior rib cage. The focus of this time was in […]
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Behind the Eye Headaches
Posted on December 1, 2016 by SMRT in Head & Neck, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I work on quite a few massage therapists. One of them has a tendency to tell me exactly what area of her body she wants worked on. Typically this is arms, shoulders, and back. For our 10th appointment, she told me she didn’t know and to work whatever I thought. I decided to work her […]
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What would YOU DO with a Frozen Shoulder?
Posted on November 9, 2016 by SMRT in massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders.In October, 2015 I taught an SMRT course in Chapel Hill, NC. There were two students who had taken our classes the year before, friends who came to class together, who began to talk to me during a break. Laurie said, “what would you do for frozen shoulder?” It was the third time she had […]
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Manual Therapy for the Anterior Neck
Posted on May 26, 2016 by SMRT in Anatomy, Articles, Head & Neck, Human Body, Physiology, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Recently I read an article about a woman suing a massage therapist and Massage Envy. The woman believes that the massage therapist was aggressive enough on her anterior neck that it lead to a stroke. I do not know if this is possible, but I do not know that it is impossible. Since that article […]
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Ashley’s Story
Posted on May 26, 2016 by SMRT in Arm & Hand, Articles, bodywork, Shoulders.For many years I have been doing private internships with my SMRT students. Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending the day working with Ashley and her clients. We had several dramatic changes in people’s pain and alignment throughout the day, including a woman whose entire face looked different and a woman whose full body […]
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Scar tissue, Fascia & SMRT
Posted on March 17, 2016 by SMRT in Back & Spine, Hips & Sacrum, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.I want to tell you about a massage therapist I met while in Austin, TX last week. He was in the SMRT: Shoulder, Axilla, Ribcage, & Upper Back class there. He is an older gentleman who came to massage later in life, about 3 years ago when he was in his late 50’s. About 4 […]
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SMRT for Chronic Rib Pain
Posted on March 17, 2016 by SMRT in Muscle Pain, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.While in Austin, TX I met a 36-year-old woman who was in an intense amount of pain in her left chest and breast. Apparently she had been this way for about 5 years. She had seen many doctors and therapists, had many tests, and still had no idea why she was in pain. I want […]
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SMRT – Making a Difference
Posted on March 17, 2016 by SMRT in Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.Here are some more examples of how SMRT is making a difference in people’s lives. Today I worked on an acupuncturist client who came in with hip pain. Her hips were shifted to the right. I assessed further up and down her body and found that her rib cage was sheering between her 7th and […]
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Head & Neck
Posted on March 17, 2016 by SMRT in Head & Neck, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I love working on the neck and head. SMRT: Head & Neck – a 12-CE day and a half class – and SMRT: Arm & Hand – a 12-CE day and a half class – are my favorite SMRT classes to teach. I was working on an SMRT student the other day who was complaining […]
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Breathing easier with SMRT
Posted on March 17, 2016 by SMRT in Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.Last night I got a wonderful phone call from Patti (who begins teaching SMRT on her own in a week! My first traveling SMRT instructor!). About 3 weeks ago, Patti, Robert, and I taught an SMRT hip girdle course in Tucson, AZ. Patti has a second home about 30 minutes south of Tucson. One of […]
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An Assessment of the Shoulder
Posted on November 27, 2015 by SMRT in Articles, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.By Dawn Lewis One of my teaching assistants recently asked me how to alleviate tension deep in the shoulder. The tension he is talking about is high up in the shoulder and posterior, between the inferior belly of omohyoid and the levator scapulae. He believes it is the upper posterior fibers of serratus anterior, […]
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Tibialis Posterior Update
Posted on November 3, 2015 by SMRT in Feet, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, Questions and Answers, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.An update for the client in the “Tibialis posterior and foot dysfunction” article: the client/student/massage therapist/acupuncturist/volleyball goddess came back to see me yesterday. Her feet still felt much more centered, but the pain in her knees had returned. We moved further up her leg and I checked the pattern in her right femur. I […]
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Tibialis Posterior and Foot Dysfunction
Posted on November 3, 2015 by SMRT in Articles, Feet, Knees, Legs, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.By Dawn Lewis Tibialis posterior is located deep in the posterior compartment of the lower leg. It originates from the lateral side of the posterior tibia, the medial aspect of the posterior fibula, and the interosseous membrane between the tibia and the fibula. It inserts on the plantar surface of four of the tarsal bones […]
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SMRT for a Frozen Shoulder
Posted on November 3, 2015 by SMRT in Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews.A student in the SMRT: Head & Neck and SMRT: Arm & Hand courses that I just finished teaching in Chapel Hill, NC had adhesive capulitis, better known as frozen shoulder. She is a young woman, maybe in her 30’s, who reached into a clothes dryer in a strange way and has been unable […]
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Alleviating Rib Pain
Posted on October 7, 2015 by SMRT in Back & Spine, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.Yesterday a client that I have been seeing for several years came for her appointment in severe pain. She said that she had reached down to pick up a dart and felt something pull in her right lower anterior and lateral ribcage. She had gone to the doctor and nothing was broken. The medication they […]
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In the SMRT system the first question we ask is “Why?”
Posted on October 7, 2015 by SMRT in Abdomen, Feet, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I just returned from an SMRT class that I taught in Trinidad, CO. The class was small, but I always take a teaching assistant in case we end up uneven. The class we were teaching was SMRT: Hips, Lower Back, & Abdomen. I decided that my TA and I would get into the trades. This […]
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The Iliotibial Band
Posted on August 3, 2015 by SMRT in Anatomy, Articles, Legs, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.By Dawn Lewis What do we know about the iliotibial band? It is a thick band of fibers that originates at the anterior superior iliac spine and the anterior aspect of the inferior lip of the iliac crest, and inserts on the lateral condyle of the tibia and Gerdy’s tubercle (which is slightly distal and […]
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