Self Treatment/Self-Help Videos and Handouts Therapists often seek out quality resources to share with patients that align with their treatment perspectives. As such, I’ve begun to film and post self-treatment/self-help videos that are perfect for sharing with patients. It is impossible to envision every area of the body that might need to be addressed, but… Continue Reading
Pathologizing: Our Words Matter
Pathologizing: Our Words Matter As a physical therapist trained in the early 1980’s, biomechanical explanations for pain and movement disorders were the norm. As I drifted into a myofascial release manual therapy in the early 1990’s, the biomechanical model was reinforced and made more narrow through the beliefs that pain and movement dysfunction stem from… Continue Reading
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Whitney Lowe: Fantasy Physiology and the Post Hoc Fallacy
Moving a profession’s knowledge-base forward is not an easy task. As a species I believe we hold fast to what is familiar and to resist change. My colleague, Whitney Lowe, has written an excellent article that addresses these issues and it may not be an easy read. Not that the technical jargon loses you, but… Continue Reading
An Interview: Marci Daniels Rosenberg, M.S., CCC-SLP
An Interview: Marci Daniels Rosenberg, M.S., CCC-SLP The new series of interviews I’ve posted here have thus far been with individuals involved in manual therapy from the massage/fitness end of the spectrum. For this interview, I wanted to branch into the other world I interact with; that of the voice and swallowing-related dysfunction. I’ve been… Continue Reading
Notes from Walt Fritz’s Workshop at the 2017 Voice Foundations Symposium
Many thanks to The Voice Foundation for making me feel welcome and inviting me to present my version of myofascial release for vocal dysfunction. I had prepared for my Friday workshop expecting 20-30 participants and, needless to say, I was a bit surprised at the very large turnout. As a result I lacked supplies for… Continue Reading
Myofascial release in the head and neck cancer patient
“Ignore the claims, as belief that one can somehow selectively target fascia, muscle, or other structure without providing simultaneous stimulation to all structure is fantasy.” (This post was written over a year ago but remains relevant. The evidence used to validate this work and this continuing education seminar is constantly updated, with the latest version… Continue Reading
An Interview: Massage & Fitness Magazine’s Nick Ng
I met Nick Ng face-to-face two years ago, though he and I had co-existed on some Facebook groups long before that time. He took my Foundations in Myofascial Release Seminar for Neck, Voice, and Swallowing Disorders class in San Diego and, as I viewed him as decidedly science-literate, I was curious how he would interpret… Continue Reading
Fitting myofascial release into an evidence‑based culture
“Myofascial release” and “evidence-based” are phrases that are seldom spoken together. Papers exist telling us how and why myofascial release (MFR) is not an evidence-based treatment model/modality. In today’s therapeutic culture, one that demands that we work from evidence-based perspectives, it is at time difficult to find much in manual therapy that appears to meet… Continue Reading
A patient-directed model of manual therapy
I think our patients deserve more. We are the experts. Be it myofascial release, manual therapy, massage, or any of the countless other terms used to describe what we do, we are trained to call ourselves the soft tissue experts. Patients seek us out due to our experience and expertise with pain and movement dysfunction.… Continue Reading
The Placebo Effect in Manual Therapy: An interview with Brian Fulton, RMT
In April of 2016, I had the pleasure to meet Brian Fulton, RMT, who was a co-presenter at the Registered Massage Therapists’ Association of British Columbia’s Biennial Conference, “Manual Therapy: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Science and Practice”. His talk involved the understanding of the placebo effect in manual therapy and since that time I have been… Continue Reading
Say Nothing
Say Nothing Here is a link to an article I wrote for Nik Ng’s Massage & Fitness e-magazine (subscribe here) titled, “Say Nothing”. Regular readers will recognize by biases in this article, biases I think we all might be well-served if we adopt. Give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Walt Say… Continue Reading
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The Good (and Bad) of a Simpler Narrative
What we do, ultimately, is help people feel more comfortable in their bodies so that they can move more easily and, in effect, heal themselves. The past ten years of my professional career has been devoted to working toward a more accurate narrative to explain the work I do. The story of how this came… Continue Reading
More Mental Floss for the MFR Brain: Changing Your Story
With a broad-based education, credible continuing education, and critical thinking, I do think we can be less wrong about the work we do. I do not mean to criticize those who believe differently and certainly not those who taught me these concepts. Science moves forward and I thank those in my past. What if I asked… Continue Reading
