Amanda Oswald BA, MBA, ITEC Dip, CNHCTel: 07742 567528 / 01273 509192 amanda@paincareclinic.co.uk
I recently joined 800 other therapists and scientific researchers from universities and medical schools around the world for the third triennial Fascia Congress in Vancouver, Canada 28-30 March 2012. The purpose of the congress was to enable the new generation of scientists specialising in fascia research to meet the complementary therapists who are already using [...]
For hundreds of years anatomists and artists have dissected dead bodies to gain a better understanding of how living ones work. In this 21st century the opportunity to study dead bodies is usually reserved for the medical researchers, but individuals are free to leave their bodies for medical education. And so it is with thanks [...]
Repetitive Strain Injury, otherwise known as RSI, is an insidious problem in the workplace, and one about which there are many myths. Two such myths are the suggestions that RSI takes years to develop and only affects very specific areas of the body in limited ways. Mary Barbe, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at [...]
Pain Care Clinic has released dates for its new myofascial release self-help workshops for January to June 2012. About myofascial release Myofascial release is a gentle, non-invasive bodywork technique based on an understanding of how muscles and fascia work together deep within the body to produce movement and communicate pain. Fascia is believed by many [...]
This is the second in a mini series of two articles comparing: 1. the regulation of massage therapists, osteopaths and physiotherapists 2. the training and approach of massage therapists, osteopaths and physiotherapists They arise from a recent panel discussion with an osteopath and a physiotherapist, in which degree level massage therapy students asked questions about [...]
I recently participated in a panel discussion with an osteopath and a physiotherapist, in which complementary therapy students quizzed us about our respective professions and how we treat certain medical conditions. What interested me were the differences in perceived professional status and also the similarities in knowledge, training and treatment of clients by massage therapists, [...]
It’s Christmas – time to put up your decorations, write your Christmas cards, shop, cook, eat, drink and be merry. But have you ever felt any twinges in your hands as you write yet another Christmas card? Pains in your shoulder as you stretch to put the fairy on top of the tree? Or aching [...]
There’s a survey currently online at the US website www.massagetoday.com asking people to vote for what they feel is the most important issue facing the massage therapy profession in 2012. There are four possible issues to vote on (the %s are of the current votes at the time of writing): 1. Improved educational standards (18%) [...]
Brighton & Hove, November 2011 – Pain Care Clinic is expanding. Due to increasing client demand, Pain Care Clinic is expanding its clinic hours in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex to now include Wednesday appointments at the Hove clinic, with new consultant therapist, and myofascial release specialist, Melanie Smith. Melanie is an ITEC qualified massage [...]
The Pain Care Clinic has contributed an article explaining its myofascial approach to therapy for RSI to the latest edition of the RSI Action newsletter. RSI Action is national charity working to facilitate the prevention of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) conditions and for the relief of sickness, hardship and distress among those suffering with RSI [...]