Although chronic inflammation progresses silently, it is the cause of most chronic diseases and presents a major threat to the health and longevity of individuals. Inflammation is considered a major contributor to several diseases, such as: Cardiovascular diseases Diabetes Rheumatoid Arthritis Cancer Allergic Asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Alzheimers Chronic Kidney Disease Inflammatory Bowel […]
Chronic Headache This week I saw a client that I have seen only once before. He was referred to me for a chronic headache. His headache was centered in the suboccipital area. At times the pain radiated around the side of the head and up into the temple. I spent most of our first hour […]
Arm & Hand Working on a client this week who came to me for the first time about a month ago. Her complaint was severe right shoulder pain and she had been diagnosed with myofascial pain syndrome in the right shoulder. The first time I worked on her I worked her shoulder. We got limited […]
Shoulder Pain in the Hand I recently had a student come to 2 SMRT classes who had a shoulder issue. Her left shoulder had been in pain for over 2 years. Throughout the head & neck class she commented on how every move hurt her left shoulder. She didn’t know if she could SMRT, and […]
SMRT 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 […]
Relieving Chest Pressure the SMRT Way I had some SMRT work done yesterday. I got sick on December 3rd. It was a strong virus that attacked my sinuses first, quickly traveled into my throat, and eventually landed in my lungs. By the fourth day, the cough began and I coughed until my entire body hurt. […]
Let’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 […]
One of my new clients is a very muscular police detective who had pinched nerve or a nerve impingement at the base of his neck. I think he was shocked when I began by assessing his rib cage. His left rib cage was shifted to the right and his entire rib cage was rotated to […]
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 […]
Yesterday I saw a new client, an acupuncturist who used to play a lot of soccer. She is having neuralgia in her hands and fingers, as well as neck, shoulder, and upper back pain. She has seen numerous massage therapists and receives consistent acupuncture treatments. She absolutely loved the SMRT work, which I did […]
My schedule a couple of Fridays ago included a man who was new for me. He booked an hour and a half. When I greeted him at our scheduled time, he said, “I ride a Harley quite a bit and I need my adductors and glutes worked on.” All I could think about was […]
I am bound and determined to break myself. That is my conclusion after the third time I bump my right elbow (read: olecranon process) on a variety of things. The other thing that has happened seven times just this week is that I have rammed some part of my right foot into chairs, walls, […]
One of the posts I see on facebook quite a bit is, “do you have any advice for retaining clients?” or “how do you get clients to reschedule?” Some of the advice is about making sure to approach the client after the massage and ask about rebooking, while others say it is about discounts, packages, […]
This week I worked on a 17-year old girl having pain her left temporomandibular joint. She had braces removed about a year ago. Six months ago she began to have pain when yawning. She says she has to “loosen” her lower jaw before a yawn or the pain radiates up into her left […]
The iliotibial band (ITB) or tract (ITT) is for some of us impenetrable. I have clients who use foam rollers, percussers, heavy stretching with bands, etc. and still cannot effectively soften the ITT. I have students who use t-bars, elbows, stretches, deep pressure, etc. and, after all that work, simply do not get the […]
When we were teaching SMRT in GA, there was girl in class who was having a fair amount of pain in her head and jaw. She asked me if I would work on. When I put my hands on her head, I knew immediately that there was limited movement in her cranial bones. I […]
One of my clients is a woman in her late 30’s who is 3 years out from having very aggressive breast cancer that led to a double mastectomy, axillary lymph node dissection on the left, and a diep flap. She had breast reconstruction immediately. The fascia across her right breast, upper chest, shoulder, upper […]
Check out our newest preview video on Full Circle’s facebook page. This video shows a release for Gracilis, which acts as a general adductor compartment release, and a release for adhesions between the adductors and Vastus Medialis, which will melt tension on the anterior medial aspect of the distal thigh. While you are on […]
Recently we here at Full Circle have been blessed with full massage continuing education courses. All of our Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique courses are filling up, some over a month before the scheduled course date. Throughout this year we will be in Sandy Springs, GA; Battle Creek, MI; Chapel Hill, NC; Santa Fe, NM; […]
Our final 2014 massage continuing education SMRT: Head & Neck course and SMRT: Back & Spine course will happen August 1-3, 2014 in Sandy Springs, GA. We just taught these two spontaneous muscle release technique courses in Coeur d’Alene, ID. I received an email a week ago that said, “I wanted to say I […]