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Here you can find relief through self-care for pain in the shoulder and forearm when steering a car. Also, you can find more about how people describe this pain and the activities that irritated the pain in this other post. For Your Safety, Change Driving with your hand on the top of the steering wheel
This is a collection of posts about breathing muscles and the related pain patterns, restrictions, and self-care. This includes breathing pain while: Those Other Breathing Muscles Breathing is complex, and many other muscles get involved. For instance, we use our extrinsic back muscles to stabilize our shoulder blades during labored breathing. At the same time,
This collection contains posts that are primarily about craniosacral concepts, techniques, and cases. Cranial and craniosacral techniques have a rich history of development. However, persistent skepticism and opposition during its evolution have had an impact. As a result, several major and many less prevalent approaches to craniosacral have evolved. Each has its loyal practitioners. And,
Here, you will find relief through self-care for mid-back pain that extends upward, forward and creates a stiff the lower back. If you’d like to read more about how it feels or what aggravates this condition, read this other post. Cycling Cycling can easily aggravate the trigger point that creates this mid-back pain. This is
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Overview of anatomy Iliocostalis is part of the erector spinae group, which also includes longissimus and spinalis. Iliocostalis, like the others, has 3 sections. The anatomy is often simplified. That’s understandable as it is both complex and variable. All 9 sections of the erector spinae are gathered into a fascial compartment that extends along the
Here, you will find strategies for effective relief of the nagging, radiating pain under the shoulder blade created by iliocostalis thoracis, If you’d like to read more about how people describe this and the activities that aggravate it, look at this other post. Acute or Chronic If this is acute and sharp, you will have
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Osteopathic BioMechanical Model This post on The Osteopathic Biomechanical approach is part of a collection of posts on craniosacral. This collection includes posts about history, treatment models, techniques, concepts, and cases. Osteopathic Cranial Arrives The Founder In every field, there are visionaries. And then, there is that one person who moves the vision forward by
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John Upledger was an innovative osteopath in the 70s and 80s. First, he wrote a small book called Your Inner Physician and You, a readable introduction to the value of craniosacral work. Then, he introduced his approach with the landmark book CranioSacral Therapy in 1980. He followed up with Beyond the Dura, a valuable reference
