Category Archives: Massage Therapy Continuing Education
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Can SMRT on the Hips Help the Neck?
Posted on August 18, 2017 by Amber McClincy in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, Hips & Sacrum, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I recently worked on a client who has chronic neck pain. We were focused on her legs. She broke her left tibial plateau a few years ago and the hardware was giving her grief, plus she had hurt her right foot about a month ago and it still had residual tension. How the Body Connects […]
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SMRT and the Lower Extremities
Posted on August 11, 2017 by Amber McClincy in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Hips & Sacrum, Knees, Legs, Lower Leg, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Special Issues, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.One of my regulars presented a few weeks back with pain in her right hip. She pointed to the pain in the right hip and pointed out the pain as I worked on that hip. I only spent a few minute on the hip before I moved to her left knee, lower leg, & foot. […]
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Explaining How SMRT Works on the Hip
Posted on August 4, 2017 by Amber McClincy in Anatomy, Hips & Sacrum, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.After working with my clients, I’m often asked to explain to them what it is I do and how SMRT works. I received this message from one of my clients: “I don’t know what you do. I tried to explain it to my physical therapist, but I don’t know how. I ended up telling him […]
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How Do You Work on the Sacrum?
Posted on July 28, 2017 by Full Circle in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I recently had a client complaining of pain in her sacral area. When I was in massage school, almost all of our instructors skipped this area. We learned in Swedish to push the sacrum inferior as we made a long stroke down the back, and in deep tissue we learned to do a little bit […]
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Hand Benefits from SMRT
Posted on July 21, 2017 by Full Circle in Arm & Hand, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I recently taught an advanced 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. Specifically working to increase […]
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Can You Use SMRT on the Hips?
Posted on July 14, 2017 by Full Circle in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.I recently was teaching a class on the lower extremities, and many of the therapists were focused on the hip. We were changing the hip balance by working on the lower extremities. One therapist came in with TFL pain that he had been foam rolling constantly for months without lasting pain relief. He was working […]
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Working on the Abdominal Muscles
Posted on July 7, 2017 by Full Circle in Abdomen, Human Body, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Physiology, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.How often do you work on the abdominal muscles? What do you do? When using SMRT, we teach therapists to balance left and right abdominal muscle tone by working directly with each of the abdominal muscles. The Respiratory Diaphragm We begin with releases for the respiratory diaphragm. The respiratory diaphragm is of major importance to […]
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Using SMRT on the Rib Cage
Posted on June 30, 2017 by Full Circle in Anatomy, bodywork, Human Body, Ribs, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique.The 2017 student experience was a few weeks ago and the learning was intense. The work we gave and received was amazing. A good time was had by all! During our Saturday discussion, one of the students asked me how to assess the rib cage as a whole. In our basic series we typically work […]
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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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