Category Archives: NCBTMB approved continuing education
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How do you work Psoas Major?
Posted on November 21, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Human Body, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHow do you work psoas? Do you work psoas? Maybe better questions are why should we work psoas and what does psoas work do for the client? Psoas major is a muscle that massage therapists are overly focused on. Most learned to work psoas for any lower back pain or hip pain. Some are […]
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Massage Therapy for Sinus Trouble
Posted on April 14, 2019 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Sinus Trouble, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHeadaches, Watery Eyes, Pressure, Pain One morning recently, I had a massage session at 7 am for an hour and a half. This particular client began to see me for sinus issues. He had 2 sinus surgeries. When I began to see him, he suffered from constant headaches, his left eye watered constantly, he felt […]
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Bladder Issues
Posted on March 19, 2019 by Dawn in Abdomen, Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueBladder Issues I am teaching SMRT hips, lower back, & abdomen right now. Getting to Fort Worth for this class was an adventure. We had an enormous blizzard in Aurora, they cancelled my flight, closed all major (and most minor) highways in and out of the city, I decided to drive around the highway closure, […]
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A Mean Headache
Posted on December 26, 2018 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Elbow, Head & Neck, Human Body, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Tennis ElbowA Mean Headache A client this week presented with “a mean headache”. She said that it began in the suboccipital area, and traveled up the back of her head. It landed at her right temple. Her right eye hurt, and she said, “her jaw felt weak” and she had an uncontrollable urge to swallow. Palpation […]
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SMRT Schedule for 2019
Posted on November 30, 2018 by Dawn in CE's on DVD, Massage CE's on DVD, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueCheck out our SMRT schedule for upcoming 2019 classes! SMRT classes or home study/video material would make a great gift for those massage therapist on your shopping list! Below is a few of our classes starting in 2019. Don’t forget you can get 10% OFF when you book classes in advance and you may be […]
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SMRT Changes
Posted on August 10, 2018 by Dawn in Articles, bodywork, Human Body, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Self Responsibilty, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and ReviewsStudent Interaction Recently I had the an interaction with a student/therapist in one of my SMRT classes about “new” bodywork. He came into class assuming that this SMRT class would be a breeze for him because he had 30 years experience and had been made to take CE classes every 2 years for license renewal. […]
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Abduction & Adduction
Posted on July 7, 2018 by Dawn in Arm & Hand, bodywork, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueHand Work A few months ago, I taught an 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. […]
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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 TechniqueSMRT 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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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 TechniqueCold & 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 & 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 BodyNeck 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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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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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 ReviewsSMRT 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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SMRT Head & Neck Pain
Posted on December 29, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Head & Neck, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueSMRT Head & Neck Pain Recently, I had a 2-hour session with a regular client. She had recently took a vacation in Mexico. The place they stayed had very hard beds and pillows. Her complaint was an all over headache and neck pain. She was very tight through her neck and head. But the first […]
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Working SMRT on the Hips
Posted on December 22, 2017 by Dawn in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueWorking SMRT on the Hips Wednesday I did one of the last massage sessions for 2017. One of the men I saw that day has had 4 surgeries on his right hip. The initial was a full hip replacement, which has been fully redone twice, including this latest surgery, done 6 weeks ago. The surgeon […]
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SMRT Hip Techniques
Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dawn in Anatomy, bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRTDuring our SMRT: hips, lower back, & abdomen in Raleigh, NC several things happened. We had a moment in class where we were assessing the alignment of the pubic symphysis on one particular student and we found that her left pubic bone was twisted. We did a specific SMRT position to release the muscles and […]
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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 Can Help Pinched Nerves
Posted on October 27, 2017 by Dawn in Head & Neck, Hips & Sacrum, massage therapy, Muscle Pain, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Questions and Answers, Ribs, SMRTOne 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 […]
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SMRT and Lymph Drainage
Posted on October 20, 2017 by Dawn in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, massage therapy, NCBTMB approved continuing education, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueThis past Thursday I did a tutorial with a therapist who has taken several SMRT classes with me. We were in her office working on her clients. She is a lymphedema therapist, so all the clients we saw had lymphedema. I too am a lymphedema therapist, using lymph drainage with SMRT. A Client with Lymphedema […]
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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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SMRT Can Help Chronic Pain
Posted on September 22, 2017 by Dawn in bodywork, Hips & Sacrum, Lower Extremities, massage therapy, Massage Therapy Continuing Education, NCBTMB approved continuing education, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueWhile at the AMTA convention, we did free 15 minute SMRT sessions at our booth to promote the technique, videos, and classes. I spent quite a bit of time working on lower extremities while there. One of the therapists I worked on (who also happened to be a CE instructor) had a chronic hip problem. […]
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