Category Archives: Massage Therapy Continuing Education
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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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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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