26/07/2023
What does a treatment session look like?
Well I can't show you properly because my hands are usually a bit busy so let me tell you about my first client today.
Client presented with left side dominant lower back pain.
Palpating revealed tenderness around the iliolumbar ligament but TESTING showed a jamming in the right sacroiliac joint, lowered range of motion in the right lat and lowered external rotation in the left femur.
The session involved dry needling, trigger point therapy, MET stretching, deep tissue stripping and pin and mobilising of select tissue.
Along with general faffing about to calm muscles down.
Target areas were the right lat, left glute minimums, both glute medius, both quadratus lumborum, both external obliques, both erector spinae complex, both tensor fasciae latae, the left adductor complex with focus on the adductor Longus, right pectoralis major and minor and some nice spleni and TMJ work to tie it all together with a sub occiput release by way of apology.
In lay person, the quadratus lumborum are the muscles of the "Lower back" (there's a lot more but that was the indicated area of discomfort.)
As you can see, they were included, but what was focused on was everything around them that were screaming for a bit of a calm down with a cuppa and a nice bikkie.
This is what you get for your money from Remedial Massage.
This is what you can expect from treatment with me.
And this is why I ask so many bloody questions and always shout "WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE?!" when you tell me what you perceive as a disconnected and irrelevant detail about your physical activity or general body stuff.
Also this is why you don't come to for "Just a Massage"
