Every year, we ask our readers to vote for the best case of the month from JMS. The following are the cases from 2015: MEDICAL MASSAGE vs. CHRONIC ELBOW PAIN By Shea Shulman, LMT MEDICAL MASSAGE vs. PHYSICAL TH
We’re turning things upside down with the new CMMP Master Certification program and we’re having a ball doing it! What a GREAT time everyone had at the Scottsdale seminar initiating 3 new LMTs into CMMP Mas
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the new issue of JMS. This is our last issue in 2015, but we start some very important conversations which we will continue in 2016. Our Person of the Month is Kara Mirar
CASE OF THE MONTH This Case of the Month was contributed by SOMI’s new national Medical Massage instructor, Dr. Jeff Cullers, DC, CMMP. He is an excellent clinical addition to SOMI, both for his knowledge and
Our Person of the Month for this issue of JMS is Kara Mirarchi, LMT, CMMP, who is the Director of the Massage Therapy Program at American Career College in Long Beach, California. We met Kara several years ago
Letter from the Editor Issue #4 2015 Person of the Month Issue #4 2015 News from the Clinic SCIATIC PAIN OR VIRAL ATTACK? Incorrectly Treated Frozen Shoulder PARS DEFECT Chronic Upper Abdominal Pain POSTSURGICA
The purpose of this section of the Journal of Massage Science is to inform the practitioners about valuable articles that frequently go unnoticed, as well as to point to those authors and publications who exhib
By Dr. Ross Turchaninov The article in the July/August issue of Massage & Bodywork Magazine written by Til Luchau is about the iliopsoas’s anatomy, role and treatment options. The issue of iliopsoas thera
By Ross Turchaninov, MD This is our third article about the evaluation of patients written for Medical Massage practitioners and those who would like to enter this exciting field. Our first article, “The Scie
During the Medical Massage seminars conducted by SOMI, our students ask about the value of dissection courses. We think this is a critically important component of the profession that unfortunately is missed in
