Category Archives: Feet
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Deep Muscle & Connective Tissue
Posted on December 14, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Feet, Lower Extremities, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueDeep Muscle & Connective Tissue I work on quite a few therapists and doctors. So, this week I saw both a massage therapist and a chiropractor whose complaint was hip pain. Both times it turned out that the hip was a symptom of pain coming from lower down the leg. For the massage therapist, the […]
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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 ReviewsGluteal 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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SMRT & Foot Pain
Posted on May 4, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, bodywork, Feet, massage therapy, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueFoot 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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Lower Back Pain
Posted on April 13, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Lower Back, massage therapy, Muscle Pain, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueLower 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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Let’s Talk About SMRT
Posted on December 1, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Human Body, Knees, massage therapy, Questions and Answers, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueLet’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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Working the SMRT Way
Posted on November 10, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Knees, Legs, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRTSome days I really love what I do. I recently worked on a woman having knee pain. There was a mass, for lack of a better term, of bound up tissue in her lateral gastroc. I touched it. She yelped. It was very, very tender. I gently assessed it and then used an SMRT position […]
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SMRT and the Lower Extremities
Posted on August 11, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Feet, Hips & Sacrum, Knees, Legs, Lower Leg, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, SMRT, Special Issues, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueOne 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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SMRT as Continuing Education for Personal Trainers
Posted on June 16, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, Feet, Human Body, Knees, Legs, Lower Extremities, Physiology, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueIn 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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Tibialis Posterior Update
Posted on November 3, 2015 by Dawn in Feet, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, Questions and Answers, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueAn 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 Dawn in Articles, Feet, Knees, Legs, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBy 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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In the SMRT system the first question we ask is “Why?”
Posted on October 7, 2015 by Dawn in Abdomen, Feet, Lower Extremities, Lower Leg, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueI 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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Why I love being a Massage Therapist
Posted on June 19, 2015 by Dawn in Feet, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and ReviewsOne of the reasons that I love being a massage therapist and being a massage therapy instructor is helping people. The feedback I get from some clients is that the work gave them their life back, and I see in the faces of some of my students that the entire way they think about the […]
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Chronic Ankle Pain
Posted on May 11, 2015 by Dawn in Feet, Lower Leg, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and ReviewsWhile in Moorhead, MN teaching last weekend I met a man, one of the students, who told me he had a bullet go through his right ankle 40 years ago. No surgery, no pins, no plates, no metal, just chronic edema, lack of range of motion, and pain. He asked me if I would check […]
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The Posterior Sling
Posted on May 4, 2015 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, Back & Spine, Elbow, Feet, Knees, Legs, Lower Back, Lower Leg, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Physiology, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBy Dawn Lewis The posterior sling is comprised of the latissimus dorsi muscle on one side of the body, the ipsilateral or same side thoracolumbar fascia and then transferring to the opposite side or contralateral thoracolumbar fascia and the opposite side gluteus maximus. We will explore the implications of this in 3 ways: 1) Latissimus […]
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Stored Trauma in the Body
Posted on October 8, 2014 by Dawn in Feet, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Trauma Stored in BodyIn our Santa Fe course we had a man who did not like to have his feet touched. He had quite a bit of stored trauma in his feet. The courses we taught in Santa Fe were SMRT: Thigh & Knee and SMRT: Lower Leg & Foot. He took both. We use the foot quite […]
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Rehabbing after Foot Surgery
Posted on April 18, 2014 by Dawn in Articles, Feet, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBy Dawn Lewis I have osteoarthritis in the MP joints of my big toes. I have had 3 foot surgeries. Each time, the surgeon (there have been 2) says to me, “you rehab better than any patient I have ever had.” The first surgeon did not go further. He did not ask me what I […]
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