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Discover effective lower back pain relief with our comprehensive guide. Learn about muscular anatomy, trigger point therapy, massage techniques, and long-term solutions for lasting pain relief.

As a practicing massage therapist, staying updated with the latest techniques and knowledge not only enhances your skills but also significantly boosts your professional credibility. This is where massage therapy continuing education comes into play, providing you with the tools to advance your practice, attract more clients, and build a sterling reputation.

This video demonstrates the “crossover stretch” in a real client treatment session with additional commentary. The crossover stretch is a quick and simple way of assessing and treating the glute minimus and medius, in supine position at the beginning of a bodywork session. In the CTB lower body pain protocol, this stretch is used as an assessment as well as a resolving stretch after work on the glutes.

This video details the common sources of shoulder and neck pain that can develop after doing yoga arm balance poses such as crow, side crow, handstand and how to remediate the pain immediately with three counter poses. These poses use contract/relax stretching to reduce trigger points in the low/mid trapezius and serratus anterior which are the sources of most shoulder and posterior neck pain.

Learn how to apply our unique CTB analysis to swelling and pain in the knee. We have identified a hidden satellite referral chain that sets up the functional failure of the vastus medialis, resulting in distorted patellar tracking.