L & E Massage Therapy Center

07/11/2025

It is so nice to hear from our post graduates

We love to hear about ALL of your post-education experiences! Tell us where you work and what you love about being a massage therapist!! Comment below⬇️⬇️⬇️

03/18/2025

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving. All invited to L&E Massage Therapy Center, 11/29 8:30 - 10:30AM, 60 W Church St. Unit F Denver , for a celebration of 32 years. Share with us some Vigilante coffee and conversation with great friends.

11/11/2024

I had the opportunity to teach a continuing education class at the Lancaster School of Massage, covering Functional Neuromuscular Therapy techniques for the anterior and posterior cervical areas. Thanks to all of these great students who attended.

10/04/2022

We are a Massage Therapy School that teaches perspective students to become Licensed Massage Therapi

10/02/2022

🔈 WHAT IS BICEPS TENDONITIS?

The biceps muscle has two heads, simply named the long head and the short head. With biceps tendinitis, it’s usually the long head (which attaches to the top front of the shoulder) that gets injured. The long head tendon attaches to the shoulder joint capsule, and it is very near other important shoulder structures, such as your rotator cuff.

When the biceps tendon has any kind of abnormal or excessive stress, it may get inflamed. This includes excessive tension (pulling), compression (pinching), or shearing. If this happens repetitively, your body’s ability to heal itself may lag compared to these stresses, and this can lead to pain and injury via inflammation and swelling.

✳ Risk Factors for Biceps Tendonitis:

1. Repetitive overhead movements.

2. Poor movement mechanics and posture.

3. Weakness in the rotator cuff.

4. Age-related changes.

5. Abrupt increase in upper body exercise routine.

✳ How Do You Know If You Have Biceps Tendonitis?

People with biceps tendonitis often have a deep ache in the front of the shoulder. More specifically, pain is usually localized at the bicipital groove.

Sometimes pain can radiate distally down the arm. Symptoms will usually come on with overhead motions, pulling, lifting, or the follow-through of a throwing motion. Instability of the shoulder may also present as a palpable or audible snap when shoulder motion occurs.

✳ Common Symptoms of Biceps Tendonitis:

1. Sharp pain in the front of your shoulder when you reach overhead.

2. Tenderness to touch at the front of your shoulder.

3. Dull, achy pain at the front of the shoulder, especially following activity.

4. Weakness felt around the shoulder joint, usually experienced when lifting or carrying objects, or reaching overhead.

5. A sensation of “catching” or “clicking” in the front of the shoulder with movement.

6. Pain when throwing a ball.

7. Difficulty with daily activities, such as reaching behind your back to tuck in your shirt, or putting dishes away in an overhead cabinet.

Finding a health practitioner who is a skilled manual therapist may help speed up your recovery. Manual therapy is great to loosen tight muscles, mobilize stiff joints, and improve the blood flow in target areas.

📚 Treatment Plan 📚

👣 Step 1: Reduce Inflammation

The first step that any health practitioner should take is to relieve any possible inflammation. Rest and cold compress will help to reduce inflammation and begin the healing process.

👣 Step 2: Range of Motion

Once the pain has begun to subside, you should start to work on improving your pain-free range of motion. This will include not only the glenohumeral joint, which is what most people think of when they think of the shoulder, but also the neck, trunk, scapula (shoulder blade). If you have adequate flexibility in all of these other parts of your body, your glenohumeral joint won’t have to work as hard.

Two important ranges of motion for the shoulder include: flexion and internal rotation. You should be able to reach all the way overhead (full flexion) and have full internal rotation without pain. Having tight muscles in the back of your shoulder can lead to increased stress at the front of your shoulder, right where your biceps tendon is.

👣 Step 3: Build Strength

Early in your recovery, you can work on pain-free strengthening of the muscles in the shoulder as well as the back muscles that support the shoulder.

The rotator cuff muscles help to stabilize and protect the glenohumeral joint, so any basic shoulder-conditioning program should begin with these.

You also want to focus on stabilizing your scapula, which is the base that the humerus moves on. The shoulder girdle must be strong and stable enough to transfer all the forces between your arm and your body, and it must also be mobile enough to move with the humerus to allow for full range of motion.

👣 Step 4: Functional Training

Once you’ve started the healing process, significantly decreased inflammation, gained full range of motion, and have started strengthening, you’re ready for functional training. This is the last and most rewarding part of rehab because you’re now training to regain full strength and function.

You move with your entire body in a coordinated fashion, whether you want to return to playing baseball or carry a basket of laundry. If you move improperly (PTs refer to this as aberrant motion), this places increased stress to your tissues, which can lead to damage over time. So, even if your diagnosis is biceps tendonitis, a good physical therapist will know to treat the entire body. Whatever your goal is after physical therapy, your treatment should teach you to move more efficiently and optimally prepare you to return to your normal life.

09/22/2022

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07/06/2022

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🔈 REFERRED PAIN - CLINICAL RELEVANCE

Pain from the viscera is poorly localised. As described earlier, it is referred to areas of skin (dermatomes) which are supplied by the same sensory ganglia and spinal cord segments as the nerve fibres innervating the viscera.

Pain is referred according to the embryological origin of the organ; thus pain from foregut structures are referred to the epigastric region, midgut structures are to the umbilical region and hindgut structures to the p***c region of the abdomen.

Foregut – oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder and the duodenum (proximal to the entrance of the common bile duct).
Midgut – duodenum (distal to the entrance of the common bile duct) to the junction of the proximal two thirds of the transverse colon with the distal third.
Hindgut – distal one third of the transverse colon to the upper part of the a**l ca**l.
Pain in retroperitoneal organs (e.g. kidney, pancreas) may present as back pain.

Irritation of the diaphragm (e.g. as a result of inflammation of the liver, gallbladder or duodenum) may result in shoulder tip pain.

Referred Pain in Appendicitis

Initially, pain from the appendix (midgut structure) and its visceral peritoneum is referred to the umbilical region. As the appendix becomes increasingly inflamed, it irritates the parietal peritoneum, causing the pain to localise to the right lower quadrant.

05/13/2022

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04/26/2022

Spending time with the office, away from the office!🙌🏽 I’m grateful to partner with this team, the care, and the skill they offer in community!

04/16/2022

I find treating this muscles helps a lot with the function of the shoulder joint.

🔈 SUBSCAPULARIS TENDINITIS: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT

Subscapularis muscle is a large triangular-shaped muscle which fills the subscapular fossa.The term "subscapularis" means under (sub) the scapula (the wingbone). The subscapularis muscle originates beneath the scapula.

It is a part of the Rotator Cuff muscle group. It is the largest and the strongest muscle in this group. The subscapularis muscle is the most-used muscle in the shoulder.

🔒 CAUSES

Subscapularis Tendinitis usually occurs due to a direct trauma to the arm like that in a fall on the shoulders or arm or as a result of a sporting injury. A rupture of the tendon may also occur after a surgical procedure such as a shoulder replacement surgery in which the subscapularis tendon is removed and repaired.

🔒 SYMPTOMS

Some of the symptoms of Subscapularis Tendinitis are pain with any type of movement of the shoulder, especially overhead motions. Pain may also be induced with inward motion of the arms. In few cases pain is observed during sleep and early morning. Pain is often caused by hyperextension of shoulder joint during sleep resulting in hyperextension of rotator cuff and subscapularis tendon. The subscapular tendon inflammation is mild to moderate and responds to treatment.

🔒 TREATMENT

The treatment of subscapular tendinitis depends on severity of the inflammation. Mild to moderate inflammation of the subscapular tendon is treated by resting and initially with ice to reduce pain and inflammation. Massage and proper exercise will help the tendon and the muscle to recover.

🔒 EXERCISE

Performing isometric exercises that target the subscapularis involves contracting the muscle for five to 10 seconds at a time without moving your shoulder joint considerably.

Start on your back with your elbow about 6 inches away from your side and flexed to 90 degrees, so your forearm points upward. Place a large book by your hip on the same side. Inwardly rotate your shoulder, placing your hand on top of the book, and press downward for five to 10 seconds. Relax briefly, then move your elbow about 3 inches farther away from your side and repeat the same exercise. Perform the exercise twice more -- once with your upper arm pointed away from your shoulder and once with your elbow even with your ear. Repeat the series with your opposite arm.