One of my patients who was being treated for low back and butt pain is married to a man who was complaining of burning sensation in his upper and lower leg and hypersensitivity on the skin of his thighs accompanied by numbness on the outside of his thigh and pain and numbness in his butt. […]
When sciatica type symptoms get the better of you and nothing you do seems to make it better, here is a guide, a checklist for suggested corrective actions and treatments. (Synthesized from my 19 years as a Neuromuscular Therapist in the Boston area and from the medical text by Drs.Travell and Simons, Myofacial Pain and […]
When sciatica type symptoms get the better of you and nothing you do seems to make it better, here is a guide, a checklist for suggested corrective actions and treatments. (Synthesized from my 19 years as a Neuromuscular Therapist in the Boston area and from the medical text by Drs.Travell and Simons, Myofacial Pain and […]
When sciatica type symptoms get the better of you and nothing you do seems to make it better, here is a guide, a checklist for suggested corrective actions and treatments. (Synthesized from my 19 years as a Neuromuscular Therapist in the Boston area and from the medical text by Drs.Travell and Simons, Myofacial Pain and […]
Sometimes stretching isn’t enough and you need manual treatment to relieve pain in your forearm and hand. If you have hand strength, here are a few self-treatment tips that I give patients in my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. More tips will be included in the following posts. This one is for the finger and […]
Neuromuscular Therapy is a specialty treatment somewhere between Physical Therapy and Massage Therapy with a focus on Trigger Points in soft tissue locations that refer pain away from their hyperactive nodules to other points in the body. Trigger Points are one of the most common causes of chronic pain. They can occur anywhere in soft […]
This is Part 2 of a case study. If you missed the beginning, go back to the previous entry. Sidney K. responded well to two Neuromuscular Therapy sessions on the muscles of her low back and buttock in my treatment center near Boston. In the third treatment with her body calmer, emerged what I am […]
Weekend warriors please take note: My son, age 30, recently called me about his back. He was lying in the grass outside of his office building because the spasms had become so severe that he couldn’t sit at his desk without pain. I had him move in specific ways to help me understand what muscles […]
Why do I have low back pain? This is one of the most common questions I get in my Neuromuscular Therapy practice near Boston. After all, this is the most common insurance claim, pointed out by Dr. David Eisenberg in his surprising study that showed that about 60% of our population goes to alternative therapists […]
This is a series on jaw pain and TMJ. If you missed the beginning, go back to Part 1. To find the temporalis muscle, go back to Self-Treatment: Finding the bony landmarks. The NMT protocol for treatment is in the last two posts. The following self-treatment is from my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. The […]