Diane Lee, BSR, FCAMT, CGIMS

"As a student of physical therapy in the mid 1970's, I spent hours learning the anatomy of the many muscles, nerves and joints of the body. The fascia merely got in the way of the interesting stuff that lay beneath and was removed long before we were allowed to study the body donated for our learning. We were taught that muscles had origins and insertions and that their action was limited to the joints they crossed. This paradigm led to treatments that simply stretched or strengthened one muscle at a time. This limited view of muscle function and dysfunction was not very effective clinically, and I was soon searching for another model for how the muscle system really worked. Tom Myer's, "Anatomy Trains Concept” has helped me understand the multiple ways muscles link and connect to transfer forces and support the body. This concept of myofascial continuities has been a framework for understanding not only static postural support but dynamic and optimal movement. It facilitates clinical practice in that a local impairment in a line (either a restriction or inappropriate neuromuscular recruitment) far distant from the source of symptoms is easily observed. Subsequent treatment can then be directed at the source of the problem (the criminal) and not merely the painful tissue (the victim)."

Diane is the owner, director as well as a practicing physical therapist at Diane Lee & Associates Consultants in Physiotherapy (www.dianelee.ca). She is well known both nationally and internationally for her clinical work on pelvic (sacroiliac) dysfunction and has integrated the relevant scientific research into a clinical model for assessment and treatment The Integrated Model of Function. She has published eight books, contributed several chapters to orthopaedic textbooks and published in peer reviewed journals on this and other topics.

Website: www.dianelee.ca

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