What Has 2 Thumbs And A Propensity To Overuse Them?
Me! In most of my YouTube video tutorials, I lean pretty heavily on my thumbs. And I get a fair amount of commentary about it. Ranging...
Thoughts
Articles, musings and helpful tips.
Getting A Grip On Letting Go
We like to group ourselves together, don’t we? I mean, yes, we like to put things into categories and organize the crap out of anything...
Competition & Cooperation: The Lower Leg
We live in a competitive world. There is just no getting around it. The push to be prettier, fitter, better dressed, driving the coolest...
The Rotator Cuff Fan Club
Starting off with a clear sense of anatomy is rule number one. Let’s take the rotator cuff, for example. Let’s say you’ve got a client...
The Hand: A Users Guide
In school we are taught to use all the parts of our hands. The thumbs, the fingers, the palm, the knuckles - use them all and save...
"Feelization"
Feelization. It’s the word everyone is talking about. Except not really. Because I just made it up. But think about it for a second. Have...
The Case For Consistency
There are about as many categories of soft tissue dysfunctions that we might see in our careers as there are types of nut butters in the...
Buddha’s Six Pack
There are two things I try to remember when it comes to working with breath. Awareness And Contradiction. The Awareness. There is this...
The Muscle, The Beast & And A Cup Of Tea
The sternocleidomastoid (the SCM) is one of those muscles massage therapists tend to avoid because there are so many cautions raised when...
The Surprising Key To Career Longevity
About one year into my career as a massage therapist I started to question if my thumbs were made for this job. They felt weak and the...
The Anthropomorphic Connection
Physical and Psychological Benefits of Connective Tissue Recently, there was a beautiful article on scar tissue in Massage & Bodywork...
Breathing Through COVID-19
So this is what the world looks like in a pandemic—not what I was expecting. I cannot even remember the day I heard about COVID-19. It...