Tag: Physical Therapist

Spatial Medicine: Origins

This very morning I was joking in our training class about “The Year of the…” “The Year of the…” is an important element of bodywork practice (or really nearly any craft). After your first apprenticeship to your craft – let’s stay with bodywork here, so after your education as a massage therapist, physio, chiropractor, yoga… Read more

Q&A with Tom: Dental Implants and Total Body Health

A follower writes: I have been looking for more information and a manual therapist’s experiences with dental implant procedures. How do dental implants, being of inorganic material (zirconium seems the best choice at present) drilled into the jaw, static and fixed in the mouth, effect the health of the entire body? How do these implants,… Read more

Notes from Fascia Research Society By Lauri Nemetz

Thanks to guest blogger Lauri Nemetz for her fascinating report. Fascial Manipulation and Anatomy Day at Touro with Antonio Stecco Open nearly any health or fitness magazine (or even gym schedule) and the word “fascia” often pops out. However popular it has become with self-proclaimed experts and blasters everywhere, the science behind it is still… Read more

Chuck Wolf of Human Motion Associates

OK, I’ll admit it – I am not much for organised sports. I was awkward and inept at them when I was a child. I have gravitated to solo activities where I’m in competition – if any – with myself. In hiking, the opponent is the hill. In sailing, I manage a device for dancing… Read more