Catch up on this quarter's essential massage therapy research. Our Massage Therapy Journal Watch brings you all the most important journal discoveries with our own unique sportEX take-home messages. This is one of our most popular sections of content aimed at saving you time and money not having to trawl the research journals!
The aim of this article is to help the reader to understand and critically analyse research papers in order for them to make greater use of the literature in relation to their practice and learning.... Read More
The study of anatomy is what unites all therapists and coaches. Books line our shelves, and discussions abound about function, pain and injury – all of which stem from the study of these books. But... Read More
This article analyses the challenges of working ethically in sport where it is commonplace for athletes to train and play while injured and in pain. To achieve this, the literature surrounding ‘playing hurt’ is examined,... Read More
Functional fascial taping® (FFT) is fast and effective way to decrease pain, assist function and allow rehabilitation to commence in a pain-free environment. Clinically, FFT can be used to determine soft tissue dysfunction in musculoskeletal conditions with a high degree of accuracy. This article will discuss the overview and results of research on the effects of FFT on non-specific low back pain, which was the subject of Shu-Mei Chen’s PhD at Deakin University and was supervised by Professors Jill Cook and Sing Ky Lo. Shu-Mei Chen and Ron Alexander were the clinical investigators and the outcome assessor was Shu-Mei. This study was published in 2012 in the Journal of Clinical Rehabilitation (1).
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