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Welcome to the Manual Therapy Home Page!
Check out articles, videos, and interviews focusing on soft tissue techniques and methodologies, joint mobilizations, PNF techniques, and much more...
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2013 Teleseminar Interview #10 - Dr. Mark Scappaticci
Dr. Scappaticci DC, BSc (hons), DAp, FCCSS, CKTI discusses his Functional Integrated Therapy (FIT) system including his assessment process, Fascial Abrasion Technique, Functional Integrated Needling, and more. Dr. Scappaticci will also address treating the painful and non-painful dysfunction, working with elite track athletes, and we're throwing in a some business model discussion as well. . . .
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5 Techniques for SIJ Dysfunction
Erson Religioso III, DPT, MS, MTC, CertMDT, CFC, CSCS, FAAOMPT Here are 5 Techniques I have found useful for patients who do not respond to repeated motions in the lumbar spine. If you follow the research driven lumbar screen to rule in SIJ I suggested in an earlier post, and/or repeated lumbar or standard lumbar treatments are not working for your unilateral L/S pain patient, you can try the following treatments. . . .
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MedBridge Education - Manual Technique of the Week - Thoracic Opening Thrust Manipulation
Here is a great video of a Thoracic Opening Thrust Manipulation Technique from MedBridge Education. I frequently use a similar version of this manipulation so thought it would be a good one to show. As I've mentioned previously, I've partnered with MedBridge offering a significantly reduced membership to their site. In addition to lots of great online courses, they also have a library of over 100 manual therapy techniques. . . .
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Webinar - Neurostructural Taping for Enhancing Athletic Movement
Chris Nentarz PT, CSTS, NASM-PES, CSTI In this webinar, Chris will talk about understanding the neuro-structural spectrum of kinesiology taping for improved clinical outcomes, recognizing the clinical relevance of integrating kinesiology taping into enhancing movement based dysfunctions, learning the proper application technique utilizing advanced pre-cut kinesiology tape applications, pre-cut X, Y applications and roll format tape, as well as learning how kinesiology taping can most appropriately be utilized with corrective exercises and manual therapy interventions. . . .
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Manual Therapy Technique of the Week - Graston Technique 'Pin and Stretch' to the Distal Quad
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS This patient underwent arthroscopic medial meniscus repair R knee approximately 8 weeks ago. He was NWB for the first 4 weeks with a tremendous amount of swelling and a great deal of stiffness when he first came in. I feel like I maxed out his extension from treating the posterior knee the first few visits, so I figured I take a shot at the quad next. This is the 3rd treatment to this area and looking back in the notes he has gained about 10 deg. of extension and his prone knee flexion has improved from 8" heel from buttock to actually touching (as you will see in the video). It's a great spot to treat on your post-surgical patients. . . .
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Eclectic Strategies for Thoracic Mobility
Erson Religioso III, DPT, MS, MTC, CertMDT, CFC, CSCS, FAAOMPT Another great video presentation from Erson, this time with 20+ minutes of strategies to improve thoracic mobility! Thoracic mobility is crucial to quality movement as seen in the Joint-by-Joint approach, in the FMS/SFMA, and as you will also hear from Diane Lee in next week's teleseminar interview. . . .
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Don't Forget the SC Joint
Patrick Ward LMT, CSCS Soft tissue therapy and training of the shoulder has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. While some may still be limiting their treatments to isolated soft tissue techniques at the site of pain and theraband exercises for internal and external rotation most have moved on to include a more holistic and full body approach. The role of the scapula and thoracic spine are always discussed in the movement of the glenohumeral joint as limitations in movement here will translate to aberrant shoulder movement. It is commonly talked about now that the thoracic spine needs to have its mobility restored so that the scapula can display optimal stability thus allowing the glenohumeral joint to produce safe and efficient mobility. One joint that seems to constantly get overlooked in the equation is the sternoclavicular (SC) joint. . . .
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Spider Tech Taping for Scapular Stability with Thoracic Rotation
Chris Nentarz We were at Charlie Weingroff's Training = Rehab, Rehab = Training seminar this weekend. In the middle of working with a group on shoulder and t-spine breakouts when Chris decided to tape one of the participants. Figured we could make a cool video out of it just to give you all some ideas for scapular stability. . . .
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Manual Technique of the Week - Pec Minor Release
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS The pec minor is just one of those trouble spots we always seem to be dealing with so I wanted to present a few different ways of dealing with this pesky muscle. Then once released, keeping it that way presents a whole other challenge. Hope you find some of these helpful! . . .
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Case Study - Hip Flexor Strain
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS Here is case study #2 looking at a 15 yo Male athlete who injured his L 'hip flexor' (that was the official diagonsis, not mine!) during a basketball scrimmage this summer. Of course football was to start in 3 weeks and he was the starting JV quarterback. I chose this type of case in particular because this is a tricky area to treat in my opinion, and we get lots of questions about it here on the site. Hopefully I explain my SFMA logic well enough to follow, you'll get to see a few DNS exercises thrown in, and some strength training/run mechanics progressions to get him back up to speed. . . .
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Self Talar Mobilizations
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS This has been brought up a couple different times now, most recently by Michael Mullin in his interview on skiing, and by Wil Fleming discussing ankle mobility with Olympic Weightlifting. I posted a video from Michael last week showing one way of self-mobilizing the talus to improve ankle dorsiflexion so be sure to check that out. Here are a couple of other techniques you could use with your athletes and patients. . . .
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Updating the Multi-Segmental Flexion Corrective Exercises: Hip Flexion Mobility/Stability
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS It's been a long time since I first posted the MS flexion pattern corrections on the site, and since that time I like to think I've refined things a bit and become more efficient. In this post, I'm going to discuss the hip flexion component of the greater flexion pattern. The self-mobility correction is based off Mulligan's mobilization with movement, and is done with a band giving traction to the hip capsule (thanks to the Frederick's for that idea). From there it is working through hip flexion following the neurodevelopmental progression. . . .
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Myofascia - The Missing Link: Methods of Diagnosis and Treatment
Dr. Thomas Hyde, who has been a frequent contributor to the site, is putting on a conference Sept. 29-30 in Las Vegas dealing with 'Methods of Diagnosis and Treatment of the Myofascia'. Dr. Hyde will be presenting on how to solve your problem musculoskeletal and myofascial cases utilizing Functional and Kinetic Treatment with Rehab, Provocation and Motion (FAKTR©). Other presenters include Dr. Warren Hammer, Dr. Michael Schneider, and Dr. Shawn Farrokhi. Dr. Hyde is also offering a special discount to SportsRehabExpert.com members so be sure to take advantage of that.. . . .
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Fixing a Stiff Big Toe
Bill Hartman PT, CSCS Bill has been a bit more active lately on his blog and putting out some great videos so I definitely wanted to take advantage of that. Here is a great one on enhancing mobility of the great toe using a combination of mobilization/manipulation and ART . . .
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Manual Technique of the Week - Lateral Taping of the Achilles
Joe Heiler PT, CSCS I recently purchased the 'Mulligan Taping Techniques' DVD and have to say it was well worth the money. We've discussed many of these techniques previously as they've applied to holding joint mobilizations, but in the DVD there are many techniques to reposition tendons to alleviate tendinopathy symptoms and even the muscle belly in certain instances for muscle strains. I'll be showing a few of those techniques in the coming weeks, and a few more I've come up with using the Mulligan principles but were not on the DVD. That's the great thing about the DVD in my mind, you can take his ideas and run with them when it comes to addressing the specific needs of each individual patient. . . .
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Functional Strength Coach 4
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Gray Cook's Funtional Taping and Assessment
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