Category Archives: Shoulders
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Shoulder Pain & Limited ROM
Posted on March 28, 2019 by Dawn in Anatomy, Back & Spine, bodywork, Human Body, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueReferral Last week I saw a new client sent to me by a doctor I know. She has shoulder pain and limited ROM. The doctor had sent her to physical therapy because her insurance would pay for physical therapy. The physical therapist could do nothing to her shoulder without her feeling intense pain and making […]
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Shoulder Injuries
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Dawn in Anatomy, massage therapy, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueShoulder Injuries Yesterday, I saw a woman for the first time who has a work related shoulder injury. She was not sent to me through workman’s compensation, she is paying out of pocket. Her doctors have been telling her that her pain and limited ROM are psychosomatic. One of the physical therapists she was sent […]
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Shoulder Muscles
Posted on February 15, 2019 by Dawn in Anatomy, massage therapy, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueShoulder Muscles During the neck portion of the class I just taught one of the students asked me to assess her partner’s right shoulder. It had an odd feeling to it. His shoulder was sitting inferior. Movement in the shoulder felt thick but not weak. His shoulder muscles did not feel tight though. I had […]
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Pectoralis Major
Posted on September 14, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Articles, bodywork, massage therapy, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniquePectoralis Major Let’s talk about pectoralis major. Recently I taught an SMRT lower extremities course. During classes therapists/students finish their trades at slightly different times. There was a table in the room that finished with about 5 minutes left before I called time. The person working began to work on a tender spot their partner […]
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Thumb Pain
Posted on August 3, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, Arm & Hand, bodywork, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueThumbs up! I had an interesting thing happen during a session today. I was working on a client’s shoulder. Her pain complaint was her right thumb. She is a long time client, so we know that typically to alleviate the pain in her thumb, her shoulder needs to be worked. Her right scapula was immobile, […]
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Another Client’s Shoulder Pain
Posted on June 22, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueShoulder Pain Yesterday I was working on a new client with shoulder pain. When we started he said he believed it was time for him to see his MD. He was concerned he had a tear or a spur somewhere. His pain was mostly in his left middle deltoid, and it was consistent and limiting. […]
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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 TechniqueSMRT 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 ReviewsImplant 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 Shoulder Movements
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueSMRT 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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Headaches & SMRT Works
Posted on February 16, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHeadaches 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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Shoulder Pain
Posted on February 2, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueShoulder 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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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 TechniqueChronic 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 Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Questions and Answers, Ribs, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueSMRT 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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Can SMRT Be Used on the Arm?
Posted on September 29, 2017 by Dawn in Arm & Hand, bodywork, Elbow, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueRecently I spent an entire day working on arms. The first woman I worked on was a client I have seen for about the past 6 months for an ankle break that required 3 metal plates. She had a second accident and broke her proximal radius about a year ago. That required an L shaped […]
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Can SMRT Work in Just 15 Minutes?
Posted on September 15, 2017 by Dawn in bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueI recently did several 15 minute sessions at the AMTA Convention. One of the sessions that stood out to me was a man who asked specifically for subscap work. He had been struggling with shoulder pain and tension during movement in his left shoulder for a few years. He said, “I still have full range […]
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Using SMRT on the Shoulder
Posted on September 1, 2017 by Dawn in Arm & Hand, bodywork, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueOne of the student therapists in my last class asked me to look at her left shoulder. She had limited flexion and abduction. With palpation and assessment, I believed that she had a facilitated latissimus dorsi on her left side. Assessing the Shoulder As I began to work on her, most of the class gathered […]
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What would YOU DO with a Frozen Shoulder?
Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dawn in massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, ShouldersIn 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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Ashley’s Story
Posted on May 26, 2016 by Dawn in Arm & Hand, Articles, bodywork, ShouldersFor 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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An Assessment of the Shoulder
Posted on November 27, 2015 by Dawn in Articles, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBy 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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SMRT for a Frozen Shoulder
Posted on November 3, 2015 by Dawn in Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Shoulders, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and ReviewsA 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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