Category Archives: Self Responsibilty
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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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Self Care for Massage Therapists
Posted on September 5, 2014 by Dawn in bodywork, massage therapy, Self ResponsibiltyPatti, Rhonda, and I have finished our shoot for Full Circle’s self-care video for massage therapists. This video will be approximately 3 hours in length and have 6 sections. Beginning with bodywork you can do on yourself, including Muscle Energy Techniques and Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique; then moving to an almost 30 minute foam roller […]
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How Many Massages?
Posted on August 10, 2014 by Dawn in Self Responsibilty, Spontaneous Muscle Release TechniqueIn our Georgia classes last weekend we had a discussion about how many massages we each did in a day. There is definitely a tremendous amount of personal variance in how many massages each therapists feels they can do and how they do them. One of the students said she does 8 deep tissue treatments […]
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Walking Pneumonia
Posted on July 7, 2014 by Dawn in Self Responsibilty, Testimonials and ReviewsBy Dawn Lewis It turns out that I have had walking pneumonia for 6 months. It began December 21, 2013, the day I shot the final piece of the Lower Extremities video. I felt I was tripping over my tongue. My mouth felt thick. That afternoon, I began to feel tired and achy. I […]
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Unable to Urinate after a TURP Procedure
Posted on May 14, 2014 by Dawn in Self Responsibilty, SMRT, Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique, Testimonials and Reviews, Trouble UrinatingWhile I was in Seattle I received an email from a woman whose husband had a TURP procedure. TURP stands for Transurethral resection of the Prostate. This procedure is done to relieve decreased urinary flow caused by an enlarged prostate. After having this procedure done, the patient was unable to urinate. His doctor informed him […]
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Interview with Massage Nerd
Posted on August 14, 2012 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Press Releases for Full Circle, Questions and Answers, Self Responsibilty Continue Reading...
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Pectoralis Release Experience
Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyWhile I was on vacation in Seattle, WA recently, I taught a four hour class at Northwest Academy, the school we hope to hold a class in at the end of October. I wanted to give the students a protocol they could incorporate into their regular massage and use, but not too much because we […]
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Bladder Experience Restored
Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyThe first involves a man we will call Matthew. Matthew is a man in his seventies who recently had surgery and was unable to urinate. Of course, Matthew had been on a catheter since being released from the hospital several months before. They had tried everything, and finally his doctors were talking about doing another […]
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My abdomen is sore and bloated
Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Physiology, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyIssue: My abdomen is continuously bloated and sore. Possible solution: This can be caused by many different things. You may have a diagnosable disease, such as diverticulosis. Alternatively, you may be low in enzymes and unable to digest your food. Another possibility is that you have recently taken antibiotics and have destroyed much of the […]
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Symptoms of Rotator Cuff Tear
Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Physiology, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyWhat are the symptoms of a rotator cuff tear? Generally, if the tear is a supraspinatus tendon tear, which most are, the symptoms begin with abduction of the arm. Remember, supraspinatus is responsible for abduction (when the arm moves away from the side of the body) of the arm to the first 15 degrees […]
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Acceptance
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dawn in Human Body, Muscle Pain, Self ResponsibiltySo, self-responsibility. Knowing when you need to know more. Accepting that someone else cannot, absolutely cannot, be fully responsible for your health. Knowing that all the pieces of our medical landscape have their place in your care. Our general attitude about doctors is to either idolize them or make them into villains. They are neither. […]
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Shoulder DVD
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Physiology, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyThe first video we are doing is about the shoulders. The advantage, I think, about having all of this information on video is that you will pick up what you are ready for each time you watch the video. Unlike watching one demonstration in a class while taking written notes, the video allows you to […]
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When it come to the Human Body, We Need Never Assume!
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Physiology, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyI go to a variety of therapists, and, unfortunately, I find that many of them have forgotten most of their anatomy and do not understand what they are feeling and what effects what in the human body. It is frustrating to me to meet so many people who have been in pain for so long, […]
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Is there alternatives to fixing our pain?
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Muscle Pain, Self ResponsibiltyWhy? Because they didn’t know to do that. Or maybe because insurance doesn’t pay for those types of treatments and doctors are lodged in our insurance system, unable to send patients to anyone outside of said system. I had broken my right wrist at the tender age of two. It makes complete sense that those […]
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Self Responsibilty
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dawn in Anatomy, Human Body, Questions and Answers, Self ResponsibiltyFor this first blog I want to talk about self-responsibility. This is a concept I find to be lacking in our society. Everything is someone else’s fault. My brother told me the other day that in the situation he finds himself in there aren’t two sides, only one, his. But that is impossible. There are […]
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