Deep Tissue & NMT

Deep Tissue - Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)

Deep Tissue Massage involves application of slow, deep, gliding pressure along the length of the muscle fibers. Stripping strokes release and elongate tightened muscle and fascia, flush the muscles with fresh blood, and erase trigger points (trigger points are hyperirritable muscle tissue that refers pain).

Neuromuscular therapy focuses on relieving local dysfunctions of the tissue, including trigger points, ischemia, inflammation, muscle hypertonia, and nerve impingement. It includes techniques such as: compression, cross-fiber friction, direct pressure, friction, manual stretching, focused on trigger points. It uses three types of resistive stretching: lengthening, contracting the agonist; lengthening the agonist, contracting the antagonist; and lengthening the agonist, contracting agonist and antagonist.

NMT considers several physiological factors which may create or intensify pain patterns: Ischemia (lack of blood), Trigger Points (hyperirritable muscle tissue that refers pain), Nerve Entrapment, Postural Distortions, Nutrition, and Emotional Wellbeing.

The Torso

This DVD covers the techniques for hips, back, belly, shoulders & neck. Learn to alleviate pain with 53 highly effective neuromuscular techniques! Get a 3-dimensional view of the muscles, which have been modeled out of clay and feature computer generated trigger point referral overlays. This great DVD not only covers neuromuscular therapy, but includes functional assessment work, so you know where to work, and how. Along with range of motion and resistive tests, you will learn basic postural evaluation techniques. As part of a comprehensive treatment protocol, discover how to work on the tendons, ligaments and muscles with effective neuromuscular and deep tissue strokes. Finally complete the work with stretches.

This DVD along with The Extremities will prepare you to handle the most common injuries in every joint of the body. Used as support for a 100 hour neuromuscular and functional assessment course, this video is packed with useful, easy to understand information that you can start applying to your practice right away.

Massage Today Review: "To Riehl's credit, his knowledge of the subject matter is evident & he makes some of the concepts, like pelvic torsion & subsequent compensations, useful even for advanced therapists. All viewers will gain insight into the nature of myofascial pain in the torso and extremities, and effective treatments... Giving clear instructions and explanations, Riehl encourages intuition while competently and carefully teaching the mechanics of this powerful treatment approach." .. this is, overall, an excellent video for the experienced massage therapist. I highly recommend it.

Running Time: 77 mins

Contents

This DVD comes with a new 17 page colour booklet that mirrors the techniques shown in the DVD.

This DVD includes 53 techniques, 31 muscles and 29 trigger points. In this DVD Sean Riehl shows the assessment of the hips in terms of anterior/posterior rotation and high/low hip movements, and how these movement affect the lower back pain. Also covered are the adductors (for groin pulls), and the other hip muscles that control the internal and external rotation of the femur (like the piriformis that can cause sciatic nerve impingement).

The lower back section discusses the most important muscles of lower back pain and their referral patterns, as well as how to evaluate for spinal mobility to help pinpoint pain.

The neck section shows evaluation of the four ranges of motion and how to alleviate restriction. How to work on the anterior cervical vertebrae by pushing aside the trachea and touching the front of the cervical spine is also shown- great for whiplash sufferers. The work on the scalenes will help people who have arm pain that comes from this area.

The Extremities

This DVD covers the rotator cuff, elbow, wrist, fingers, thumb, ankle & knee! Learn to alleviate pain with 47 highly effective neuromuscular techniques! Get a 3-dimensional view of the muscles, which have been modeled out of clay and feature computer generated trigger point referral overlays. This great video not only covers neuromuscular therapy, but includes functional assessment work, so you know where to work, and how. Along with range of motion and resistive tests, you will learn basic postural evaluation techniques. As part of a comprehensive treatment protocol, discover how to work on the tendons, ligaments and muscles with effective neuromuscular and deep tissue strokes. Finally complete the work with stretches.

This video along with The Torso will prepare you to handle the most common injuries in every joint of the body. This DVD is used as support for a 100 hour neuromuscular and functional assessment course in the US. It is packed with useful, easy to understand information that you can start applying to your practice right away.

Massage Today Review: This video gets high marks for its straightforward presentation style and much-appreciated use of color overlays for illustrative purposes. Overall production values are good, visual and audio clarity are both above par, and for the most part, attention to detail is apparent.

Running Time: 55 mins

Contents

Comes with a new 22 page colour booklet that mirrors the techniques shown in the DVD.

This DVD covers 47 techniques, 30 muscles and 22 trigger points.

In the lower limb section Sean Riehl deals with sprained ankles, Achilles' tendonitis, knee evaluation, anterior and posterior cruciate ligament strain, and anterior and posterior knee pain.

Then he shows a rotator cuff evaluation (both resisted testing and range of motion tests), muscle and tendon work on the rotator cuff muscles, evaluation and treatment of tennis and golfers elbow.

The forearm section covers the evaluation and treatment of the finger, thumb and wrist muscles, including causes of carpal tunnel syndrome and ligament strain vs. muscle/ tendon injuries. This DVD takes the complicated subject of the forearm and makes it understandable. With these techniques shown in this DVD, you should be well equipped to assess and perform quality work on any of these joints.

About Sean Riehl

Sean Riehl has been a massage therapist since 1990 and taught massage in the US since 1993. He has extensive advanced training in various modalities. He has presented at the AMTA California conference, written multiple articles appearing in Massage Magazine and the Biotone Newsletter as well as being the author of a number of videos on massage.

Sean graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious studies & Studio Art from University of California at Santa Barbara. He lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his wife, Geri, and sons Dylan and Brandon. He likes to bodyboard, sail and hike. Sean believes that it is the information, not the instructor, that is important- and therefore he tries to keep a low profile. One of his hobbies is sculpture. He currently spends his time developing high quality and informative videos.

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