Accelerated learning
Get the most out of your Continued Professional Development (CPD) and discover how to retain more information in a shorter time frame. In this article we explore the ‘key intelligences’ to learning with the use of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Test.

Being The best
What does being the best mean to you? How could you be the best at what you do? In this article we inspire you to have confidence in yourself and the skills you have.

Mechanical Massage
There’s no doubt that hands-on massage is wonderful. But there are certainly times when we need more than hands. With increasing awareness of the need to protect our upper limbs from overuse we re-examine the potential for the use of ‘tools’, not as a replacement for hands-on massage but as a complement to it.

Soft Tissue Release (STR)
One of the Deep Tissue Techniques, discover what STR is and how it can work for you as a therapist.

Subscapular Work; Getting it right
Many of us use subscapular techniques as part of our treatment for the upper back. By accessing the medial border of the scapula it is possible to focus a treatment through the middle fibres of trapezius into rhomboid muscles and to go beneath these to the subscapularis muscle. Outlined here are some of the common errors therapists make when using subscapular work, along with some suggestions for getting the most from this technique.

Treating Poor Posture
All of us have clients with ‘poor posture’, known as a kyphotic posture. In this article we look at the best way you can treat your clients so you can be more effective during your massage treatments.

Treating Tight Hamstrings
Most of us will have come across a client complaining of "tight" hamstrings at some point in our career and we hope that this article will inspire you to try something different by way of the assessment and treatment of these important muscles.

Using Postural Assessment
Providing a postural assessment for your clients is actually very straightforward and a valuable tool you can use with almost anyone. The purpose of this question-and-answer article is to get you started in carrying out your own postural assessments.  

Postural Assessment for Beginners
We all have clients that are office workers so here we take another look at postural assessment concentrating on carrying out your observation of a sitting posture.

Using Stretching Techniques
You will no doubt be aware that as massage therapists we are wonderfully effective at relaxing our clients, easing aches and pains in the short term, but a week later they are back, often with the same complaint. This is obviously good for business, but here we consider that one of the simplest and most effective treatments we can provide is stretching.

Fun with CPD points; i
Whether you are a recently trained therapist or someone who trained many years ago you will no doubt have heard the term CPD. This stands for Continuing Professional Development and is a system designed to help us all maintain and improve professionalism within whichever discipline we are trained. However, you do not need to pay out more money for workshops and training in order to gain points. In these three articles we give you the fifty ideas in A-Z of Continuing Professional Development.

Fun with CPD points; ii

Fun with CPD points; iii

The Massage binge
Read about Zoë’s ‘discovery’ of Aruveydic massage in Sri Lanka.

Christmas with Camels
See how Jane got on with her desert trek and how she came to have a camel skeleton on top of her fridge!

Institute of Anatomical Sciences The latest on Anatomy

Movement Stability and Lower Back Pain The sacroiliac joint

Movement Stability and Lower Back Pain The sacroiliac joint

Movement Stability and Lower Back Pain The sacroiliac joint

Muscle Tendon Symposium

Hip and Groin Study day

Dance Injuries
Brief version or full version

SportEx Conference 2007
Phsychophysiology of massage, The massage therapists survival guide, Feldenkrais Method, The Evidence Base for Manual Therapies in Tissue Healing, Sports massage, Mind or body, Ankle taping: styles or substance, Multiple intelligences, the work of Howard Gardner, Assessment and treatment of soft tissue dysfunction of the cervical spine (Download the questions mentioned in these notes to accompany your visit to www.electrotherapy.org)

SMA Conference 2006 Myofascial Matrix Conference

SMA Conference 2005 Hamstrings and back pain, What’s new in Knees, What’s new in Shoulders, Soft tissue treatment of adductor strains, The 2012 Olympics

It’s not easy finding the help or information that you need. As the saying goes, ‘every little helps’ so we’ve put together a list of websites that other therapists have found helpful in the past.

Tell us what you think. If there’s a website that you can recommend then get in touch with us.

Pathologies

A large range of conditions encountered by Sports Massage Therapists. Simply
click on the condition and get a description, likely causes, and methods of
diagnosis. ovphysio

Again a large range of conditions encountered by Sports Massage Therapists. Simply
click on the condition and get a description, likely causes, and methods of
diagnosis. Includes cryotherapy and thermotherapy recommendations. physioroom

All manner of sports injuries with good illustrations of muscles. Includes
sports massage treatments. sportsinjuryclinic.net

Everything to do with knee injuries. kneeguru

An organisation primarily for physiotherapists specialising in hands. Useful
links for those of you who encounter clients with hand conditions. hand-therapy

Articles/Research

Useful to search the British Journal of Sports Medicine for articles, some of
which can be downloaded as PDF files. bjsm

Use this site to search for long and detailed articles on causes of pain.
Contains lots on soft tissue therapies such as myofascial pain. pain-education

Electrotherapy on the Web is a site that provides current, non commercial information on various aspects of Electrotherapy. electrotherapy

Anatomy and Physiology

The Anatomical Society. For those of you into your gross anatomy! Loads of links to anatomical-related sites. anatsoc

The site of Neuroscience For Kids. A fab site written for kids but with all the answers to
questions relating to the nervous system, structure, function, disorders. A great way to keep it simple. Neuroscience For Kids

Gray’s anatomy on line. bartleby

Simple links to learn about bits of the body! humanbody

Useful for getting to know your muscles. getbodysmart

This site gives muscle details and exercises for them. Also, and the best bit is that if you click on a muscle (from the muscle column) and then click on one of its actions, you get a moving picture demonstrating the action. Handy for those of you who think in visuals. Exercise & Muscles Directory

fleshandbones.com is a website for medical students and instructors and aims to provide you with a service that you will find both genuinely useful and entertaining!

The Visual Body say they are "the most comprehensive
human anatomy visualization tool available today.
This entirely Web-delivered application offers an
unparalleled understanding of human anatomy."

Other

Initially set up of physiotherapists this site provides information on their own CPD courses on topics relevant to Sports Massage Therapists. welbeing

Suppliers of rehabilitation equipment including strapping and taping
materials. skfservices

Inspiration/advice for Entrepreneurs. nick-williams

Site of 45,000 second hand booksellers. Easy to search for titles/topics
related to sports massage. abebooks

*These sites are just for reference and not necessarily the opinion of The London Massage Company.