Category - Manual and Movement Therapies

Explores touch therapy, movement education via Sprike App, collagen and Vitamin C’s role, vision optimization, reflex integration, fascia significance, body reading, and natural arm positioning to enhance physical health and movement​​.

Defining the Gravity Line of the Body

challenges traditional posture concepts, emphasizing dynamic movement through "Kinsegrity." This principle promotes efficient, natural movement and standing, minimizing wear by aligning the body to better absorb and distribute energy

Sitting

critiques the widespread use of chairs for sitting, advocating for a stool-based posture that aligns the spine over the pelvis, leveraging natural postural reflexes for better structural health

Fascia – Connective Tissue

Manual Therapy tactics and strategies have foundationally evolved since I went into practice in the 1980’s. In the past 15 years, the underlying mechanisms of efficacy in manual techniques have been firmly established. Having followed...

Body Reading

Body reading is a valuable skill any Manual Therapist should practice. The essence of the skill is to build a working knowledge of the ideal center of gravity of the human body and to be able to effectively guess the center of mass of the body...

An Argument for the Position of the Arms...

THE NATURAL POSITION FOR THE ARMS As a movement researcher and educator, I have encountered a range of descriptions for the optimal resting position of the arms, from positioning where the thumbs point outwards, to the thumbs pointing forward...

Cell Morphology – The Somatotypes

The cellular architecture and functionality in mammals are categorized into three primary groups. The foundational cell type, known as the Endoderm, gives rise to two distinct “daughter” cell categories through differentiation. One...

Thumb Maintenance

Individuals engaged in manual work, especially those who rely heavily on thumb positioning—such as violinists, who support their fingers on the instrument’s neck, or manual therapists, who manipulate soft tissue—frequently experience...

Sprike: Discussion of the Framework

optimizing gait through Sprike, focusing on movement efficiency and shock-absorption to enhance connective tissue health, introducing tools like the Sprike app and OutSole insoles for practical gait improvements that minimizes body wear​

Invitation to Participate in a Study

I’m exploring if data on the characteristics of how we move reveals a metric of the efficacy of manual therapy treatments. Being able to use this kind of data could help move the field forward by giving us solid proof of how well...

Therapeutic Efficacy Study

ABSTRACTThis study aims to assess the impact of manual therapy on shock absorption in walking, using smartphone-accelerated data to track changes pre-and post-treatment. Focusing on the Connective Tissue Matrix and tensegrity mechanics, it...