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Fasciotomy

Fasciotomy and Fascial Release Technique

Perhaps you’ve seen this story about CNN correspondent Miles O’Brien needing an amputation: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/health/miles-obrien-amputation Nowadays it’s getting better, but a lot of docs – if they had heard of fascia at all – knew about it in the context of the procedure called a ‘fasciotomy’. Just as a tracheotomy is cutting open the trachea, a… Read more

Tom Myers

Q&A with Tom and Lou: Tissue Direction

A student writes: When I brought up the idea of stroking proximally to distally, my instructor looked at me like I had two heads and found it alarming that I have not been taught about the dangers in venous damage from stroking in this direction.  In his past, he experienced a Hellerworker who performed a… Read more

Michol Dalcourt

Anatomy Live! 2014

Looking ahead with excitement to the collaboration between Michol Dalcourt and myself at the Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment in Phoenix (well, Tempe) Arizona, January 18-19. The design is to bring trainers into contact with the tissue insights that come from ‘seeing for yourself’ what tissue looks like, feels like, and how it responds, and then… Read more

KMI Maine 2012 Graduation

We just graduated 19 new KMI practitioners into the world.  It’s very satisfying to see how far people come with themselves and their skills over a 9-month period.  9 months – September to June in this case – like a pregnancy, and we often refer to ourselves as being like midwives, to emphasize that we… Read more

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