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EFT Meets American Psychological Association "Evidence-Based" Standards
A historic moment has arrived, that marks the fruition of an enormous amount of work and persistence by many, many people. This week we changed the EFT Research page to read as follows . . . Read more
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Bodywork Resources
Cool Apps for anatomy, muscles, trigger points and more.
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Tom's Book, The Case For Alternative Health Care is also available as an e-book.
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What Are Students Saying about the MET Courses?
"This was the perfect course. It put everything I tried to learn 12 years ago in an easy to understand method. I cannot wait to start trying these in the clinic."
Susan J.
M1 Seattle 2012
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PT tip of the month
Understanding Pain:
What to do about it in less than five minutes?
Pain of all types and particularly chronic pain, is perhaps the least understood mechanism in the body. This wonderful video helps explain the mechanisms in a simple and understandable format. At Alternative HealthCare Solutions, we try to incorporate all these factors in dealing with patient's pain. A great link to share with your patients.
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Source: GP Access
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Q: Hi Tom, I am having trouble correcting the rotation I see in my patient's lumbar spine. I have been able to correct his SI joint with METs, but I have failed to correct L3-L5. He has a slight L shifted trunk in standing (better than it used to be) but spine does not look rotated in neutral standing. L3, 4 and 5 all go into R rotation when he flexes. At about 10-15 degrees of flexion, you can see a quick worsening of the shift, and this is when he has pain. When he is in full flexion the pain is gone but L3-5 stay in R rotation. The pain is on the L even though the vertebrae seem stuck on the R. I have tried the sidelying METs for Type 2s unsuccessfully several times (although his pain is decreasing). Then I thought maybe it's a Type 1 - in prone you can see the rotation only with a thick pillow under him - but that didn't work either! I have also tried MFR to his lumbar spine. Do you have any other ideas/tricks?
Tina D., PT
A: Tina, good job getting the sacrum and pelvis ship shape. Put your patient supine with a pillow under his knees and palpate the psoas muscles, first one side and then the other. I think one psoas will be way more prominent and tender than the other. Let me know and I'll tell you where to go from there.
Tom Ockler, PT
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Don't be afraid . . . Ask A Question
Have a patient not responding to traditional therapy and you need a new idea? Having difficulty understanding a particular MET?
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Training Materials:
DVD's and Manuals
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"I must say you really did a great job with the DVDs. I've really enjoyed watching them and I finding it hard to put them down at times."
William B., Exercise Specalist & Lifestyle Coach
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Our Seminars
For those of you who have taken Muscle Energy courses before and are still struggling... Or if you have never taken a Muscle Energy course because you heard it was too hard... These are the courses for you.
Muscle Energy Technique is one of the most effective and valuable manual techniques for the identification and correction of somatic asymmetry and hypomobility. These techniques can be used immediately to find and correct the causes of all types of pain. These are not cover up procedures, but rather techniques that cure the problem with dramatic results.
Unlike manipulative therapies, which presume joints are stuck out of place by some physiologic glue, the beauty of Muscle Energy is that it works through an evidence-based neuro physiologic principle. And that is the joints are held out of place by muscles that have too much tone.
In his 33 years of clinical practice, Tom Ockler P.T. has had extensive teaching experience throughout the United States, Canada, England and Australia.
As a teacher, Tom has earned the nickname "The Patch Adams of Physical Therapy" due to his unique style of injecting humor into complicated subjects. He has developed teaching methods that explain very complicated subjects in easily understandable formats. His five teaching manuals have been hailed by students as the "most user-friendly and useful Muscle Energy manuals ever."
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