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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 the Forgotten Sense

by Emma Gilmore

Having been working with touch modalities for 25 years I witness constantly the power of positive, nurturing touch. At the end of just a single session, a client seems not just rela...

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 – When Emotion and Energy Get Stuck in the Body

by Emma Gilmore

Continuing the theme from our previous article on emotion in the body, in this article we’re going to look at the ways in which emotion gets stuck in our bodies, changing our physio...

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...

Trauma Release Body-Mind Processing

by Louis A Gross BSEE

In this article Gross describes his system of Trauma Release Body-Mind Processing, which combines Ida Rolf's Structural Integration Method of Connective Tissue Manipulation, psychi...

Treating Chronic Pain Deep Tissue vs. Muscle Release Technique

by Michael Young

By using the Muscle Release Technique,™ we not only break up scar tissue, we lengthen the muscle. This results in more flexibility, no more nerve impingement and no more pain. By u...

Treating Pain in Joints and Muscles

by Vicki McKenna

As an acupuncturist I commonly see people with pain in their joints and muscles. Often pain in joints is labelled "arthritis" and muscular pain may be classified as "fibromyalgia" ...

Treating the Complex Shoulder

by Simeon Niel-Asher

This article focuses on shoulder problems, such as frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tendinopathy, capsulitis, arthritis of the glenohumeral joint, impingement syndrome, post operative...

Treating Trigger Points Reduces Pain from Knee Osteoarthritis

by Valerie DeLaune

Trigger points are hyper-irritable spots in skeletal muscles, and when pressed, feel like tender 'knots' or tight bands in the muscles. Around 75% of pain is caused by trigger poin...

Trigger Point Therapy

by Steven Hefferon

The author explains what triggers a trigger point (a type of muscle stiffness), why they cause trouble, how to recognize if you have trigger points and how long it takes before y...

True Healthcare - Helping the Body to Heal Itself

by Brian A Rothbart PhD

“Eventually medicine and humanity must come to terms with the fact that healing comes from within, and the true role of a practitioner is to facilitate that healing within.” Dr. Gas...

Truth will out

by Leon Chaitow, ND DO

In 1988 I coauthored (with investigative journalist Simon Martin) a book with the title World Without AIDS (Thorsons) and in 1994 my other book on this topic You Don’t Have to Die ...

Twisted Life Forms

by Joel Carbonnel

Nature, as a rule, does not like straight lines but rather favours curves, and has a marked preference for that most beautiful of curves – the spiral.

Twisting Foot and Musculoskeletal Pain: Root's Biomechanical Model vs Rothbart's Neurophysiological Model

by Brian A Rothbart PhD

There are two distinct theoretical models that describe the pathomechanics, in a step by step fashion, that link a twisting foot to the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain: ...

Vibromuscular Harmonisation

by Mark G. Lester

The Vibromuscular Harmonisation Technique (VHT) is a new bodywork technique developed by Jock Ruddock and inspired by such disciplines as Aikido, Bowen Technique, Tai Chi, Cranio-S...