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The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part I

by Mario-Paul Cassar

As part of his series on massage and bodywork, the author advices on the correct posture and handwork of practitioners in this article. Postural awareness is a combination of body ...

The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part II

by Mario-Paul Cassar

Mari-Paul Cassar looks at the use of hands, thumbs and forearms in this 2nd part of his Bodywork piece aimed at practitioners. The palm and fingers are the fundamental tools for th...

The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part III

by Mario-Paul Cassar

In this the final of a 3-part series on bodywork, the author focuses on the importance of good posture in massage and bodywork and considers the benefits and indications of carryin...

The Importance of Palpatory Skills

by Mario-Paul Cassar

Mario-Paul Cassar is well established as a practitioner and teacher in Osteopathy, Bodywork, Clinical Massage and Sports Therapy. He has also written several article and books incl...

The Importance of Scar Tissue Release Therapy

by Marjorie Brook

The author points out that the physical and mental effect of scarring are generally overlooked by health professionals. She describes the structure and functioning of scars and adh...

The Little Toe and Beyond

by Joel Carbonnel

The fifth pedal digit or, for you and me, the little toe, would not win a beauty contest.

The M Technique Touch for the Critically Ill or Actively Dying

by Jane Buckle

This article focuses on the M Technique, a registered method of gentle touch suitable for anyone wanting to touch someone who wants to be touched. It is a series of stroking move...

The Metamorphic Technique and the Universal Principles

by Agnes Boes

Life itself is the great healer. It appears simple and obvious, yet the finite mind has difficulty in grasping it. The Metamorphic Technique and the Universal Principles put into p...

The Mezieres Method - a revolution in manual therapy

by Joel Carbonnel

Francoise Mezieres (1909 - 1991) career as a physiotherapist and a teacher of anatomy/physiology changed radically following an empirical discovery. With this discovery she found th...

The Mini-Trampoline

by Michele Wilburn

Mini-trampolines, also referred to as Rebound units and bouncers, are easily accommodated in homes, and widely used in sports centres, gymnasiums, health hydros, hospital physiothe...

The Multiple Applications of Swiss Balls

by Paul Chek

This article looks into the benefits of Swiss ball training and the multi-functional exercises one can perform with it. He says that the use of Swiss balls in most gyms tends to be...

The neglect of the body in psychotherapy

by Allan Rudolf

This month's column continues on a theme discussed in a previous issue – the interactive aspects of Bodywork and Psychology.

The Originality of The Mezieres Method

by Joel Carbonnel

This column touches on the misrepresentation of physical therapies, namely Mézières Method, and development of totally irrelevant systems of exercises (such as Yogalates), in an at...

The Primordial Psoas and the Chakra System

by Liz Koch

“Deep within our physical body emerges a bio-intelligent tissue called the Psoas. This mysterious tissue is defined within the biomechanical paradigm as a core stabilizing muscle...

The Psoas Within

by Liz Koch

At the very core of your physical body lies a muscle that influences every aspect of well-being. The psoas muscle, critical for balance, alignment, joint rotation and range of moti...

The role of soft tissue work

by Mario-Paul Cassar

Soft tissue work was incorporated in physical therapy many years ago. Its efficacy has been demonstrated by the extent of its utilisation and by its continuous evolvement, sometime...

The Weakest Chains

by Joel Carbonnel

The work of Mézières is firmly based on what she called 'muscular chains' (MCs). I don't know if she was the first one to use this term but she gave a clear and precise definition ...

Touch Therapy Training Programme For Children with Disabilities

by Katie Essex

The author shares her experiences of her involvement as both therapist/instructor and research assistant in the Touch Therapy Training Programme (TTTP) developed by Julie Barlow an...

Transformational Bodywork

by Graeme Stroud

Transformational Bodywork is a method of working on the physical body that begins the process of contacting, accepting and transmuting the pain, trauma and congested energy that re...

Trauma Energetics

by William Redpath

The author, William Redpath, a psychoanalyst, Reichian therapist, special education teacher and certified advanced Rolfer, has spent many years studying tragic theory and trauma th...