The title might look like it’s going to be about hockey. But instead let’s talk massage. If you’ve had a massage with me, you might have noticed that I always find time to work on your shoulder blades and your kneecaps. Why would I do that? After all, shoulder blades and kneecaps are bones - don’t massage therapists work strictly with muscles? No, not exactly. A shoulder blade is one of three bones, which form the shoulder (the other two are the collar bone and the upper arm

Remember the weird muscle posters on the walls of your high school anatomy class, and how you were supposed to memorize muscles’ names and functions, but never did? It’s all hazy now, and the only thing you remember is that the human body contains a large number of distinct individual muscles. Well, it turns out that even this, is not true at all. The muscles in our bodies are not distinct or independent. They are connected by a continuous layer of strong flexible tissue, cal

If you watch “Family Guy”, you might remember the episode when Peter was in business of selling butt-scratchers. Comedy aside, there could actually be a demand for such a device. You see, in order to scratch one’s behind, one needs to extend the arm behind the back and rotate it outwardly. This trivial task, however, could be quite painful for those, with an injury to the muscles of the shoulder, or to the joint itself. In fact, an occurrence of pain on the extension and outw

One question I always ask my female clients is if they wear high heels, and if they do, I also ask how often and how high. Although after I put my hands on their lower legs, I sometimes know the answer before I hear it. Short and anemic calf muscles and the reduced range of motion of the ankle joints tell the story. It's hard to imagine another action as contradictory to the foot's anatomical design, as walking on spikes. I get it, the high heels are stylish, sexy, and they m