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Cramps: Muscle cramps explained

Disc injury: what is all the fuss about?

Asthma sufferers: Myotherapy is ridiculously effective

Myotherapy

Guiding Principle V: Follow the pain

I am a problem solver . . . As a kid I would get myself into trouble because I spent hours pulling a something important apart because I was curious. Then I couldn't put it back together. There was more than one occasion that my 'mechanically…
tennis elbow

Tennis Elbow: 3 types and 3 tips

Peroneal proprioception - Be the guru on ankle stability

Myotherapy is not only about pain relief. It is about function. The chronic instability left in ankles for years after an acute plantar flexion inversion injury is a classic case of myofascial dysfunction with no pain. And it is ridiculously…

Why do I roll my ankle all the time?

3 solutions to bone spurs in the shoulder

Guiding Principle III: Discussion and rationale

This article discusses what may be happening in the myofascial system when cross-fibre manipulation is applied.  Cross-fibre manipulation. I explained in part 1 that this manipulation involves 'locking' your thumb or fingers onto the…

Guiding Principle III: Cross-fibre manipulation

In this article I explain that I have found cross-fibre manipulation to be, by far, the most efficient and effective technique for assessing and treating myofascial dysfunction. I am a Geelong boy. I studied Myotherapy back in the mid…

Headache: What kind do I have?

Guiding Principle II: Discussion and rationale

This article explores some observations and science that may support the idea that myofascial pain and the sensation of 'stiffness' are curiously connected.  My second guiding principle that I use every day in the assessment and treatment…