The Kneaded Hand

09/27/2025

Move Freely, Heal Deeply

09/26/2025

🔹 How The Femoral Nerve Can Cause Knee Pain 🔹

✅ The Femoral Nerve runs through the front of your hip and thigh helps power the muscles that straighten your knee.

✅ When this nerve gets irritated or pinched (tight hip flexors, pressure at the front of the hip, or tension along the thigh), you can feel pain at the front or inside of the knee—even if the knee itself is okay.

✅Clues it’s nerve-related: the knee feels achy or weak, pain changes with hip or back position, or bending the knee while lying on your stomach triggers a pulling/tingling feeling.

✅ What helps: hands-on treatment to relax tight hip/thigh tissues, gentle nerve-glide movements, and targeted strengthening of the thigh and hip so the knee tracks better.

💡 If knee-focused care hasn’t worked, the front-thigh nerve might be part of the problem—treat the whole chain for lasting results.

09/25/2025

Massage meets Movement

09/24/2025

⚡️ The Obturator Nerve & Your Knee: What’s the Connection? ⚡️

👉 The obturator nerve (from the lumbar spine) travels through the pelvis and supplies your hip adductor muscles (adductor longus/brevis, gracilis, part of magnus) and part of the medial thigh.

👉It sends a branch to the knee joint capsule—especially the medial (inside) knee. Irritation here can mimic knee pain even when the knee structures are fine.

👉 Common causes: adductor overuse/strain, pelvic mechanics, or entrapment near the obturator canal. You may feel medial knee ache, pulling with cutting/pivoting, or adductor tightness/weakness.

👉What helps: treatment that addresses the hip–knee chain—soft-tissue work to the adductors, hip mobility, adductor/VMO strengthening, and gentle nerve-glide drills to restore normal mechanics.

💡 If your “knee pain” lives on the inside and hasn’t responded to knee-only care, it may be referred from the obturator nerve/adductors—treat the source, not just the symptom.

09/23/2025

👉 4 Facts About the Patella (Kneecap) 👈

1️⃣ The patella is a sesamoid bone embedded in the quadriceps tendon—its job is to increase the lever arm of the quads so the knee extends more efficiently.

2️⃣ The patella glides in a trochlear groove on the femur; good tracking depends on balanced quad strength, hip control, and healthy soft tissue.

3️⃣ Patellofemoral pain often isn’t just a “kneecap problem”—it’s commonly linked to hip weakness, tight lateral structures, or limited ankle dorsiflexion that alters mechanics.

4️⃣ Swelling or pain can delay quad activation, leading to weakness and altered gait—early, targeted rehab helps restore tracking and reduce recurrence

💡 Treatment-focused massage therapy helps maintain the patella's mobility and soft tissue balance, reducing strain & improving overall knee function

09/22/2025

🦵 4 Facts About the Knee Joint 🦵

1️⃣ The knee is a modified hinge joint — it mainly bends/straightens, but also has a small amount of rotation that’s essential for healthy movement.

2️⃣ Stability depends on your ligaments and menisci, plus dynamic support from the quads, hamstrings, and calves.

3️⃣ Patellofemoral mechanics matter: how the kneecap tracks is influenced by hip control and quad balance — poor tracking often drives front-of-knee pain.

4️⃣ The knee doesn’t work alone — limited ankle dorsiflexion or weak hip control can overload the knee. Treat the whole chain for lasting results.

09/19/2025

Getting ready for the weekly staff meeting with the Quality Control/Therapeutic Support Crew 🐾🙂

09/18/2025

Feel Better, Move Better

09/16/2025

✨ 3 Somatic Movements for the Shoulder ✨
Try these simple somatic exercises to keep your shoulders mobile and balanced

1️⃣ Shoulder Circles – smooth, slow rotations.
2️⃣ Elbow Lifts – lifting with ease, not strain.
3️⃣ Arm Reach & Rotation – extending while staying relaxed.

🙆‍♀️ Therapy with Massage & Movement

09/15/2025

Where Therapeutic Touch Meets Mindful Motion

09/14/2025

I've been diving into neurology⚡️ for a while and it's lead to Somatic Movement

👉 Somatic movement is gentle, mindful exercise that help your body relearn how to move with ease and less pain.

👉Unlike stretching, which targets muscles directly, somatic movements work with the brain-muscle connection, helping your body “remember” how to move freely

🌿Somatic Movements are slowly finding their way into my Massage Therapy practice and it's creating a beautiful synergistic union 😊

Massage Therapy + Somatics = lasting results, not just short-term relief

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