These are items I’ve found helpful at times – you may find the same. A link or reference doesn’t mean I value the whole of the website or practicioner’s view, just that there might be a thing or two that could be helpful there.
Massage and Bodywork efficacy research links are often posted elsewhere in posts or tweets.
Encouragement for Active Lifestyle, “Homework”, and Wellness
Life impact of switching to bike commuting…Posting this here as a “resource” vs inspiration because it includes some nice numbers to frame the situation and backup the position of how exercise can have major quantifiable benefits. Here, quantifiable is sometimes anecdotal as the presenter describes the numbers that changed in his life, but you don’t have to go far to find statistical reviews in peer-reviewed literature to see big results. And the other numbers presented here, e.g. total impact on societal cost savings in a cost-benefit analysis, are more general, more widely applicable, and more interesting, imho.
“Homework” (In the best of ways! Like the art project or volcano project you loved in grade school!) can be such an important part of co-participation in wellness-oriented massage and bodywork – this presentation seemed a neat alternate perspective on it…
Bodywork and Massage Therapy
As always, many thanks to those who make these articles and videos available to the public!
- Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP)
- T. Myers on the Psoas – A Great Series Here – Really Nicely Written and Present, IMHO (nerd snipe alert)
- T. Myers on the Tissue Treatment for the Extensor Coxae Brevis
- Overuse injuries in classical ballet (PubMed, Sports Med)
- Examination and Treatment of Cuboid Syndrome (PubMed, Sports Health)
- Foot Bones and Movement Animations (youtube)
- Foot bones explained (with some articulation animations, overview level)
- Foot Anatomy Animated Tutorial (nice detail of the ‘ankle’ joint, including the mortise-tenon concept, and the differentiation between flexion/extension and inversion/eversion at the ankle, includes ligaments and muscle function)
Tissue Conditions
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: National Clinical Guidelines for Management and Treatment in Adults (PubMed)
- The chapter 9 link here relates to literature reviews and efficacies of lifestyle modification, especially dietary modification, as related to pain and quality of life changes.
Personal Wellness, Self-Esteem, Emotions, Decisions
Abraham Twerski on Self-Esteem (youtube) – See his other videos re: anger, decisions, etc.
Relationships, Communication, Counseling, Online Resources
Communications & Relationships Counseling from Mr. Gerlach
Gabor Maté “Consequences of Stressed Parenting” (youtube) – Many videos out there related – this one is a nice summary of his focal points of late and also contains some key additional points regarding the learning state versus the stressed state and how this impacts behavior interactions with children (and by relationship, how we can review our own current states of being and life influences to guide ourselves toward better quality of life)
Alain de Botton – Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person – Cool, digestible, synopsis of the skills that are needed for loving and being in relationship with other humans.