Original Question:           This post is intended for therapists who practice the clinical aspects of Massage Therapy. A patient came to our clinic with an acute left lower back pain history. He was treated in pain and PT centers for several months without achieving stable results.         ..read more

This post is intended for therapists who practice the clinical aspects of Massage Therapy. Original Question: Patient #1          Patient A experienced burning pain throughout the day and night in the right middle back for four months. The patient was unsuccessfully treated by DC, PT, and a massage therapist who practiced clinical ..read more

The original question was: A patient came into our clinic with acute right-lower-back pain that amplifies during rotation, deep breathing, and sneezing. The lower back pain started after an excessive workout in the gym. There are no peripheral neurological symptoms. Lumbar compensatory scoliosis to the left (blue line on the photograph in the picture above ..read more

The patient/client evaluation consists of three equally important steps that contribute valuable data to the correct assessment of the tissues and designing an optimal treatment strategy. Therefore, an essential part of our Medical Massage training is dedicated to: visual observation, clinical interview, and finally, palpation and testing. This post addresses the importance of visual observation ..read more

MEDICAL MASSAGE VS MIGRAINE TYPE CLUSTER HEADACHE   by Dr. Ross Turchaninov             My thanks to everyone for posting your comments. Let’s first address some concerns therapists expressed in their posts. Clinical reasoning includes three equally important components: Visual Observation, Clinical Interview and Palpatory and Function Examination. We published detailed ..read more

            Thank you to everyone who shared your expertise in response to our original post. Just as a reminder, the question was what two local conditions can explain the skin reaction to the Compression Test presented in the video.           As correctly mentioned by many therapists ..read more

By Dr. Ross Turchaninov, Phoenix           We thank everyone who commented on the original post. Those of you who mentioned Cauda Equina Syndrome were absolutely correct and we appreciate your clinical expertise.           The patient is 52 male who never had health issues before is owner of ..read more

          Thank you everybody for the comments left in our FB post. It is great to see active engagement of the therapists who practice clinical aspects of MT. Many causes to the condition initially described in the post were mentioned. Let us summarize them: tension in lumbar erectors, quadratus lumborum, piriformis, iliopsoas ..read more

By Dr. Ross Turchaninov  Phoenix, AZ            In the previous issue of JMS, in the ‘News From The Clinic’ section we published the clinical case “Medical Massage vs Pneumonia’s Residuals”:     https://www.scienceofmassage.com/2019/12/medical-massage-vs-pneumonias-residuals/              This case was sent to SOMI by our former student Curt Lezanic, LMT ..read more

          MEDICAL MASSAGE VS COMPLICATED CASE OF POST-CONCUSSION                                                                    SYNDROME ..read more