Whitney Lowe

Massage therapy can play a significant role in treating nerve pain. But learning those various types of pain is key to understanding how massage can help.

Variations of nerve injuries warrant understanding their differences in helping clients experiencing neuropathic pain.

Low-back pain is not only costly, it’s often hard to diagnose. Taking a proper health history and exploring assessment tools will get practitioners closer to finding an answer for their clients.

Understanding how muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs contribute to proprioception can aid in providing effective care for clients.

Massage therapy alone can’t fix bony misalignments, but it can help manage soft-tissue disorders and symptoms associated with valgus and varus alignments.

Massage and soft-tissue therapy play beneficial roles in treating radial tunnel syndrome (RTS). It is essential to address the entire arm comprehensively.

Identifying the variations of scapular dyskinesis can lead to the right treatment for shoulder impairment.

Massage therapy is a core component for treating ankle sprains and is used with other treatments used by other providers, such as laser therapy, ultrasound, microcurrent, and electrical stimulation.

Rotator cuff issues can vary from mild strains to severe tears, posing treatment dilemmas. Massage can play a key role in conservative treatments if the therapy is well-designed and targeted to the client’s individual presentation.

While massage therapists do not perform diagnostic imaging, understanding its role and limitations in identifying rotator cuff pathologies can enhance client education and interprofessional communication.