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All things about the neuromyofascial system: anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, assessment, and treatment

Website: http://learnmuscles.wordpress.com/
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Latest Activity: May 28, 2013

Truth be known, you can eliminate any trigger point using only light pressure, without ever working on the trigger point itself, in 20 seconds.

Started by Gordon J. Wallis Jun 27, 2011.

Started by Stephen Jeffrey. Last reply by Gordon J. Wallis Jun 10, 2011.

Why are palplation skills important to you?

Started by Frank J. Last reply by Walt Fritz, PT Feb 7, 2011.

Hey Joe, how do you and the rest of the gang measure leg length?

Started by Robert Downes. Last reply by Joseph E. Muscolino Oct 27, 2010.

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Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on May 7, 2010 at 2:49pm: Hello everyone,

I am looking to create some home-study courses and need to do a "pilot study" for the ncbtmb. So, I am looking for 5-7 volunteers to participate. It would involve reading chapters of my kinesiology textbook and then taking the quizzes. You would receive the CE credit for this...and if you do not have the kinesiology textbook, I will send you one that you could keep.
Anyone interested? You could email me at jemredd@optonline.net

Thanks!

Joe Muscolino

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on May 3, 2010 at 9:01am: Hi everyone,

I recently posted a new "quiz yourself" figure for the muscles of the anterior thigh on my website (www.learnmuscles.com). You will find it by clicking the link for "quiz yourself."
See how well you know the muscles of the thigh. :)
Enjoy!
Joe Muscolino

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on April 21, 2010 at 7:28am: Hmm... This is a very interesting question.
Normally eccentric contractions are done to slow down a mover (agonist) force that is external, and if left unchecked would move us too quickly. Gravity is the usual mover force. In this case, the mover force is another muscle/muscle group of our body, the anterior abdominal wall muscles. When the mover force is our own musculature, it is simpler and more efficient to simply contract them less if we want them to not move us as quickly. So, I am not sure that we would "need" to eccentrically contract the diaphragm in this case.
Having said that, I would think that we could certainly choose to do this. And, I see no reason why the diaphragm, like any other muscle, could not be told to contract with a force that is less than the opposing mover force (regardless of its origin, i.e., it is from another muscle in our body), which would by definition create an eccentric contraction. After all, the diaphragm is a skeletal muscle like any other, except that it is also controlled subconsciously by the nervous system instead of just voluntarily like other skeletal muscles.
Great question!
Does anyone else out there have anything to add to this discussion?

Comment by Jeff Sims on April 21, 2010 at 2:54am: I am curious about contracting the diaphragm eccentrically. It seems possible by inhaling deeply and then forcefully contracting the abdominals concentrically yet controlling the exhale by co-activating the diaphragm. Any thoughts?

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on April 19, 2010 at 7:54am: Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to alert you to an upcoming myofascial conference being held at the University of Pittsburgh. Leaders in research and hands-on will be there. The dates are May 7th and May 8th.

Joe

May Poster PDF.pdf

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on January 29, 2010 at 9:21am: Hey Stephen (and everyone else),

A major mea culpa...

I wrote in that fascial contraction article that the elasticity of muscle is due to the fascial component! Major error that I have been trying to figure how to correct on the pdf on my website!

The elasticity of muscle tissue is due to protein titin molecules!

Sorry folks!

Joe

Comment by Joseph E. Muscolino on January 29, 2010 at 9:18am: Wow, I was away teaching all day and come back to a question posed and already answered multiple times by other folks. How wonderful! Thanks all. I do have the 2007 book and it was great. I look forward to the newer info will be coming out. BTW, there will also be a soft tissue conference at the University of Pittsburgh sometime soon (I can't seem to find the dates at the moment). I believe that Leon is one of the presenters.

Comment by Michelle Doyle, D.C., CNMT on January 28, 2010 at 10:08pm: Leon says the next conference will be in 2012, dates not confirmed yet. Stay tuned!

Comment by Thomas Myers on January 28, 2010 at 1:13pm: The next Fascial Research Conference will be in Vancouver BC in the spring of 2011. I don't believe the dates have been finally set yet, but they may have.