A popular quote by William Glasser says “We learn… 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss with others, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach to someone.”
http://www.timelessinformation.com/memory-retention-rates-tell-you-how-to-learn/
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Bottom Line on Therapist-Client relations
Health Professionals Act
Schedule 2 Health Professions Procedural Code
Interpretation 1.1
Sexual Abuse of A patient
(3) In this code, "sexual abuse" of a patient by a member means,
(a) sexual intercourse or other forms of physical sexual relations between the
member and the patient.
(b) touching, of a sexual nature, of the patient by the member, or
(c) behaviours or remarks of a sexual nature by the member towards the patient.
1993, c. 37, s.4
Exception
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3),
"sexual nature" does not include touching, behaviour or remarks of a clinical nature appropriate to the services provided. 1994\3, c. 37, s. 4.
Schedule 2 Health Professions Procedural Code
Interpretation 1.1
Sexual Abuse of A patient
(3) In this code, "sexual abuse" of a patient by a member means,
(a) sexual intercourse or other forms of physical sexual relations between the
member and the patient.
(b) touching, of a sexual nature, of the patient by the member, or
(c) behaviours or remarks of a sexual nature by the member towards the patient.
1993, c. 37, s.4
Exception
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3),
"sexual nature" does not include touching, behaviour or remarks of a clinical nature appropriate to the services provided. 1994\3, c. 37, s. 4.
Friday, May 8, 2009
After 1 year
After 1 year of massage skool I know
The name of virtually every muscle in the body, it's location, fibre direction, action and innervation
The name of virtually every bone in the body, it's location, shape, soft tissue attachment sites, the joints it forms.
The name of virtually every single component of the body. From cell to tissue to organ to system. It's location, function and dysfunction.
Techniques to relieve soft tissue dysfunction, constipation, headaches, lymphatic swelling
Treatments to resolve tendonitis, plantar fascitis, muscle strains, ligament sprains, shin splints, dupuytrens contracture, contusions
The name of virtually every muscle in the body, it's location, fibre direction, action and innervation
The name of virtually every bone in the body, it's location, shape, soft tissue attachment sites, the joints it forms.
The name of virtually every single component of the body. From cell to tissue to organ to system. It's location, function and dysfunction.
Techniques to relieve soft tissue dysfunction, constipation, headaches, lymphatic swelling
Treatments to resolve tendonitis, plantar fascitis, muscle strains, ligament sprains, shin splints, dupuytrens contracture, contusions
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Meditations on Massage
Massage and Meditation
One Pointedness
Meditation will make you a better massage therapist. Through the powers of concentration developed by 'navel gazing' for hours and hours, there is an ability to pierce deeply into the very nature of a problem. At the very least, with concentration comes the ability to focus on the client and their tissue without wandering off to far away imaginary lands.
Pain over Pleasure
Massage relieves pain. Meditation overcomes pain. I prefer the latter. There is no avoiding pain but there can be an avoidance of states of disease and dysfunction. I prefer to use massage for helping improve a person's state of well being, not just removing their pain. To create a relationship with that is not based on avoidance and escape. Lets think of it as a continuum of sorts - To start, a person would receive a massage to relieve pain - but to become dependent on such an elixir is only a route to certain suffering and inevitable dissatisfaction. Perhaps, an introduction of learning to study one's pain via meditation and creating the awareness of the psychological nature of pain would be a useful byproduct of a massage treatment that I would design.
Solitary indulgences
Massage and Meditation can be very solitary practices. Massage performed on a person in whom you hope to create a sense of peace and relaxation does not lend itself well to idle chatter and gossip. And then too there is a task to be accomplished. One that is steeped in focus and concentration and the ability to see what's really going on under the surface. In meditation too, you try to see through the surface of the mind and find what lies within. All the vagaries of day to day life are just not worth obsessing over because they become meaningless right quick.
The combine effect
Massage and Meditation as treatment go together quite well. In a study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine in 2005 by Mary Ann Liebert concluded that the combined effect of massage and meditation on quality of life of a group of late-stage disease patients was more beneficial than massage or meditation alone.
Through the eyes of a looking glass
Massage can be seen as a form of meditation. Can meditation be seen as a form of massage – Not really. A forum for reflection develops in the melding of the physical contact and the minds over inquisitive nature. What is actually happening here. Are there energy transfers and neural connections telekinteically being exchanged? Is there a fusing of matter, of two separate entities stripping though their separateness faster than a deep Cyriax friction. In dimensions unknown......???
Lineage
Stepping into shoes of healers of a tradition as primal as a mother's touch is a big deal. Reflect on responsibility and love and power and purpose. Meditate on effect and intention and purity. Breathe and Heal. Could there not be a desire to be meaningful and relevant yet at ease and desire-free. What paths have healer of past taken, what sacrifices made so that we today pave a road already so well beat. Are there assumptions that need decrying? A smouldering soup need stirring. Rest
One Pointedness
Meditation will make you a better massage therapist. Through the powers of concentration developed by 'navel gazing' for hours and hours, there is an ability to pierce deeply into the very nature of a problem. At the very least, with concentration comes the ability to focus on the client and their tissue without wandering off to far away imaginary lands.
Pain over Pleasure
Massage relieves pain. Meditation overcomes pain. I prefer the latter. There is no avoiding pain but there can be an avoidance of states of disease and dysfunction. I prefer to use massage for helping improve a person's state of well being, not just removing their pain. To create a relationship with that is not based on avoidance and escape. Lets think of it as a continuum of sorts - To start, a person would receive a massage to relieve pain - but to become dependent on such an elixir is only a route to certain suffering and inevitable dissatisfaction. Perhaps, an introduction of learning to study one's pain via meditation and creating the awareness of the psychological nature of pain would be a useful byproduct of a massage treatment that I would design.
Solitary indulgences
Massage and Meditation can be very solitary practices. Massage performed on a person in whom you hope to create a sense of peace and relaxation does not lend itself well to idle chatter and gossip. And then too there is a task to be accomplished. One that is steeped in focus and concentration and the ability to see what's really going on under the surface. In meditation too, you try to see through the surface of the mind and find what lies within. All the vagaries of day to day life are just not worth obsessing over because they become meaningless right quick.
The combine effect
Massage and Meditation as treatment go together quite well. In a study published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine in 2005 by Mary Ann Liebert concluded that the combined effect of massage and meditation on quality of life of a group of late-stage disease patients was more beneficial than massage or meditation alone.
Through the eyes of a looking glass
Massage can be seen as a form of meditation. Can meditation be seen as a form of massage – Not really. A forum for reflection develops in the melding of the physical contact and the minds over inquisitive nature. What is actually happening here. Are there energy transfers and neural connections telekinteically being exchanged? Is there a fusing of matter, of two separate entities stripping though their separateness faster than a deep Cyriax friction. In dimensions unknown......???
Lineage
Stepping into shoes of healers of a tradition as primal as a mother's touch is a big deal. Reflect on responsibility and love and power and purpose. Meditate on effect and intention and purity. Breathe and Heal. Could there not be a desire to be meaningful and relevant yet at ease and desire-free. What paths have healer of past taken, what sacrifices made so that we today pave a road already so well beat. Are there assumptions that need decrying? A smouldering soup need stirring. Rest
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
How about summing up neuro in poetry
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
Friday, April 10, 2009
SenseMe
People always 'move' better after a massage due to sensory inputs/re-education to disconnected parts of their bodies
ChiroMeChiro
Most people getting of a chiro's table will feel good becuase of the autogenic inhibition effect.. A reflex that kicks in after an adjustment causing the muscles around the joint to relax.
A dynamic thrust starts a momentary myotactic stretch reflex even faster than a slow stretch, via the low-threshold stretch circuit, but, if delivered properly, a dynamic thrust will also excite the higher threshold Golgi tendon apparatus that initiates the inverse myotatic reflex to cause associated contracted muscle fibers to give way suddenly (clasp-knife reflex). By holding a finger near a colleague's contact hand while a dynamic adjustment is given to a patient, the quick contraction followed by relaxation of the underlying muscle can be sensed. This phenomenon, autogenic inhibition, has many applications in correcting muscular fixations and relaxing splinted muscles.
A dynamic thrust starts a momentary myotactic stretch reflex even faster than a slow stretch, via the low-threshold stretch circuit, but, if delivered properly, a dynamic thrust will also excite the higher threshold Golgi tendon apparatus that initiates the inverse myotatic reflex to cause associated contracted muscle fibers to give way suddenly (clasp-knife reflex). By holding a finger near a colleague's contact hand while a dynamic adjustment is given to a patient, the quick contraction followed by relaxation of the underlying muscle can be sensed. This phenomenon, autogenic inhibition, has many applications in correcting muscular fixations and relaxing splinted muscles.
Be careful what door you walk thru
However, think of this...what is one of the first things you do after you bump your head or pinch a finger by accident? You probably rub it and it feels better, right? Could this be explained by the gate control theory? Well, rubbing your bumped head or pinched finger would activate non-nociceptive touch signals carried into the spinal cord by large nerve fibers. According to the theory, the activity in the large nerve fibers would activate the inhibitory interneuron that would then block the projection neuron and therefore block the pain.
The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ronald Melzack (a Canadian psychologist) and Patrick David Wall (a British physician) in 1962,[1] and again in 1965,[2] is the idea that the perception of physical pain is not a direct result of activation of nociceptors, but instead is modulated by interaction between different neurons, both pain-transmitting and non-pain-transmitting. The theory asserts that activation of nerves that do not transmit pain signals can interfere with signals from pain fibers and inhibit an individual's perception of pain.
Gate control theory asserts that activation of nerves which do not transmit pain signals, called nonnociceptive fibers, can interfere with signals from pain fibers, thereby inhibiting pain. Afferent pain-receptive nerves, those that bring signals to the brain, comprise at least two kinds of fibers - a fast, relatively thick, myelinated "Aδ" fiber that carries messages quickly with intense pain, and a small, unmyelinated, slow "C" fiber that carries the longer-term throbbing and chronic pain. Large-diameter Aβ fibers are nonnociceptive (do not transmit pain stimuli) and inhibit the effects of firing by Aδ and C fibers.
The peripheral nervous system has centers at which pain stimuli can be regulated. Some areas in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord that are involved in receiving pain stimuli from Aδ and C fibers, called laminae, also receive input from Aβ fibers.[3] The nonnociceptive fibers indirectly inhibit the effects of the pain fibers, 'closing a gate' to the transmission of their stimuli.[3] In other parts of the laminae, pain fibers also inhibit the effects of nonnociceptive fibers, 'opening the gate'.[3]
The gate control theory of pain, put forward by Ronald Melzack (a Canadian psychologist) and Patrick David Wall (a British physician) in 1962,[1] and again in 1965,[2] is the idea that the perception of physical pain is not a direct result of activation of nociceptors, but instead is modulated by interaction between different neurons, both pain-transmitting and non-pain-transmitting. The theory asserts that activation of nerves that do not transmit pain signals can interfere with signals from pain fibers and inhibit an individual's perception of pain.
Gate control theory asserts that activation of nerves which do not transmit pain signals, called nonnociceptive fibers, can interfere with signals from pain fibers, thereby inhibiting pain. Afferent pain-receptive nerves, those that bring signals to the brain, comprise at least two kinds of fibers - a fast, relatively thick, myelinated "Aδ" fiber that carries messages quickly with intense pain, and a small, unmyelinated, slow "C" fiber that carries the longer-term throbbing and chronic pain. Large-diameter Aβ fibers are nonnociceptive (do not transmit pain stimuli) and inhibit the effects of firing by Aδ and C fibers.
The peripheral nervous system has centers at which pain stimuli can be regulated. Some areas in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord that are involved in receiving pain stimuli from Aδ and C fibers, called laminae, also receive input from Aβ fibers.[3] The nonnociceptive fibers indirectly inhibit the effects of the pain fibers, 'closing a gate' to the transmission of their stimuli.[3] In other parts of the laminae, pain fibers also inhibit the effects of nonnociceptive fibers, 'opening the gate'.[3]
Causes of Inflammation (besides Garo and Harper)
There are only two sources of inflammation: Trauma or an Antigen (could be a perceived antigen - hypersensitivity)
Oh my Felden Krais
In a presentation to the school, Susan Free discussed Somatics (movement education)and I felt that was one of the key components missing from our training.
She did some neat demos that increased the range of motion in lateral rotation of the spine, neck and head significantly.
Her philosophy was one of teaching the mind new ways of doing things so one can break free from patterns that are established in error.
It was certainly a 'moving' experience.
These also correlate with Michael's discussion of de-chunking and de-habituating a clients movements.
Check out these awesome videos - it will be worth it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpJeOkgfzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mquOoYA39o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVjJuvS3xg&feature=related
She did some neat demos that increased the range of motion in lateral rotation of the spine, neck and head significantly.
Her philosophy was one of teaching the mind new ways of doing things so one can break free from patterns that are established in error.
It was certainly a 'moving' experience.
These also correlate with Michael's discussion of de-chunking and de-habituating a clients movements.
Check out these awesome videos - it will be worth it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpJeOkgfzw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mquOoYA39o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVjJuvS3xg&feature=related
Monday, March 30, 2009
Statistically Studying
There are 20 days left till exams
If each of the 8 neuro handout takes 3 hours to cover = 24 hours
If each of the 6 theory classes take a similar amount of time = 150 hours
150 hours into 20 days = 7.5 hours of studying per day
good luck...you'll need it.
Oh...and don't forget about the practical classes
If each of the 8 neuro handout takes 3 hours to cover = 24 hours
If each of the 6 theory classes take a similar amount of time = 150 hours
150 hours into 20 days = 7.5 hours of studying per day
good luck...you'll need it.
Oh...and don't forget about the practical classes
Friday, March 20, 2009
In your eyeball maaaaan!!!
Don't forget this sweet PIR for the suboccipitals..
Put head into extension
Take slowly to flexion until barrier
Close client eyes and ask to look up for 10 secs
Breathe / Look straight
Repeat
Put head into extension
Take slowly to flexion until barrier
Close client eyes and ask to look up for 10 secs
Breathe / Look straight
Repeat
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Alexander Technique
If you were at the demo on Wednesday the release that the lady achieved on Tom's neck was no short of remarkable. His neck was like an Ostrich's just kept getting longer and longer.
The day next, he was back to 'normal' but with memories of possibilities.
Go Alex!!
The day next, he was back to 'normal' but with memories of possibilities.
Go Alex!!
Trendy Bendy Fascia Relaxa
Michael Bard (my neuro prof) talks about the history of science and how there are trends that are all the rage and then fall back into the place where they belong.
For Bodywork, the latest buzzword is fascia. Everything is fascia these days. Peter talks about how for a time the subclavius "was the root of all evil". Interesting how our attentions go from place to place eventhough the human body remains the same.
For Bodywork, the latest buzzword is fascia. Everything is fascia these days. Peter talks about how for a time the subclavius "was the root of all evil". Interesting how our attentions go from place to place eventhough the human body remains the same.
Therapize me this a-way
So I had a client ask me after I had treated her somewhat unsuccesfully for her adductor pain where she should go next: A physio or a chiro or another RMT. I said I don't know...Do you know how chiro or physio's would handle an adductor problem
So I had a client that I treated for piriformis pain and I said to her: Well, thats something your chiro can't do for you. But then my chiro friend was like" oh yeah, we would just do some ultrasound and maybe some soft tissue manip and some SI adjustment.
So then I wonder what is that we RMT's do that nobody else does? Or do we just do some things better?
So I asked Thao (my chiro pathology teacher) how she would treat a muscle issue and she said "No probs, just use one of the modalities like Electric Stim or Ultrasound, maybe do some soft tissue, and adjust the joint above and below"
So I was like " damn... where can I get one of those... I mean we work so hard to get a release and these 'machines' get the job done prontofast
hmm...
So I had a client that I treated for piriformis pain and I said to her: Well, thats something your chiro can't do for you. But then my chiro friend was like" oh yeah, we would just do some ultrasound and maybe some soft tissue manip and some SI adjustment.
So then I wonder what is that we RMT's do that nobody else does? Or do we just do some things better?
So I asked Thao (my chiro pathology teacher) how she would treat a muscle issue and she said "No probs, just use one of the modalities like Electric Stim or Ultrasound, maybe do some soft tissue, and adjust the joint above and below"
So I was like " damn... where can I get one of those... I mean we work so hard to get a release and these 'machines' get the job done prontofast
hmm...
Today I became a better masso
Just one thing from a teacher: 'Bend from the hip'
And there I was already better than the minute before...
But then getting a massage for an hour and a half from another teacher and my body understood what my mind could not.. Tonight in clinic my hands did things that my mind was not even conscious off.. And thus grew Faz.
Funny how we are like ticking time bombs of revelation waiting for just the right trigger.
And there I was already better than the minute before...
But then getting a massage for an hour and a half from another teacher and my body understood what my mind could not.. Tonight in clinic my hands did things that my mind was not even conscious off.. And thus grew Faz.
Funny how we are like ticking time bombs of revelation waiting for just the right trigger.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Intake and consent
This is what I think is the matter...
This is what I think about why this may have happened to you...
This is the treatment that I can offer...
and this is why I think the treatment will help...
You may notice these side effects...
And these benefits...
This is what you can do to help yourself...
Is there anything more you would like to check with me?
This is what I think about why this may have happened to you...
This is the treatment that I can offer...
and this is why I think the treatment will help...
You may notice these side effects...
And these benefits...
This is what you can do to help yourself...
Is there anything more you would like to check with me?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Teachers
Do you even know how many teachers I've had in my life.... I lost count a long time ago. But wow, does it ever take a lot to make just one person....
If teachers are the ones that influence your development the most then the more teachers that you have the more 'developed' you would be.
Then there are the unpaid, unconventional teachers that show up in your life and enrich it that much more. Zowie.... just to think about it is overwhelming..
After having such a reflection, there is a lot of gratitude one feels towards every single person that they ever called teacher. Thank you.
Finally, one day, you and I will be part of this cycle as well.... somebody will call you TEACHER.
If teachers are the ones that influence your development the most then the more teachers that you have the more 'developed' you would be.
Then there are the unpaid, unconventional teachers that show up in your life and enrich it that much more. Zowie.... just to think about it is overwhelming..
After having such a reflection, there is a lot of gratitude one feels towards every single person that they ever called teacher. Thank you.
Finally, one day, you and I will be part of this cycle as well.... somebody will call you TEACHER.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Some questions I have
Why take 10 mins of hard work with Swedish when you can do the same thing in 30 seconds with x technique??
Why spend time fixing symptoms when you should be looking at the root cause?
What is the difference in appearance between cellulite and fascial restricitons?
Why spend time fixing symptoms when you should be looking at the root cause?
What is the difference in appearance between cellulite and fascial restricitons?
Scientific Illiteracy
Lately I have understood the benefit of Scientific Literacy as a necessity in today's world.
Another Radio Lab podcast on the importance of....
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/07/29/tell-me-a-story/
Another Radio Lab podcast on the importance of....
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/07/29/tell-me-a-story/
Placebo Effect
The most understated effect of medical intervention... Here is an amazing podcast on the topic
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/18
US Massage Therapist wage statistics: What a downer
Earnings
Median wage and salary hourly earnings of massage therapists, including gratuities, were $16.06 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $10.98 and $24.22. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $7.48, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $33.83. Generally, massage therapists earn 15 to 20 percent of their income as gratuities. For those who work in a hospital or other clinical setting, however, tipping is not common.
As is typical for most workers who are self-employed and work part-time, few benefits are provided.
Median wage and salary hourly earnings of massage therapists, including gratuities, were $16.06 in May 2006. The middle 50 percent earned between $10.98 and $24.22. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $7.48, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $33.83. Generally, massage therapists earn 15 to 20 percent of their income as gratuities. For those who work in a hospital or other clinical setting, however, tipping is not common.
As is typical for most workers who are self-employed and work part-time, few benefits are provided.
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