Healing Massage Therapy by Shannon Jones LMT

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Rising above this mass consciousness will involve clearing your energy. It’s important to understand it is not difficult to clear energies, & most people are struggling simply because they are not aware of this simple yet profound step to transform their life.
You can begin by asking your Higher Self to assist you & simply state & affirm what it is you wish to clear.

When you understand this step & ask for clearing, lower energies will have no power over you because no spiritual law supports them.

The moment you allow the pillar of light of your soul enter you, you begin to purify your field just like having a shower daily to wash your physical body. You do not need to force out unwanted thoughts or intrusions. It is the light of your consciousness that will dissolve anything holding you back.

You have the ability to rise above the mass consciousness & instead connect to higher divine consciousness. Much of what we see on Earth is the unconscious dense aspect that feeds into mass social beliefs & separation.

You can absolutely shift out of this illusion & experience oneness & connection of the soul. You are living within a sea of various energies & it is composed of thought forms, beliefs, opinions, judgments, emotions, fears, concepts & layers of energies that have been built over lifetimes by many lesser evolved members of this human race.

These beliefs & thought forms were then passed down to each new generation being born.
These beliefs are unknowingly accepted as the our own, however, do not actually reflect deeper truth & knowing.

Abigail Stellar Shekinah
Art Pintrest

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Cant wait to see you beautiful 🌺
Love and devotion
Jo xx

🔈 PROPRIOCEPTION

Physiologically, posture and balance are a result of the interaction of a number of sensory feedbacks and the resulting muscular responses. The sensory feedback comes from proprioceptors. The proprioceptors detect any changes in movement or position and any changes in tension, or force, within the body. They are found in all nerve endings of the joints, muscles, and tendons.

1. Pressure sensors in the soles of the feet and proprioceptors in the ankle joints detect the proportion of weight distributed between left and right and between the balls and heels of the feet.

2. The vestibular apparatus of the ears can detect any change in equilibrium, even before it occurs, and send messages to the brain.

3. The eyes detect a level horizon and feedback to the brain causes postural adjustment to try to keep the eyes parallel with that horizon.

4. Neurological structures in muscle and tendon tissue (the muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs - which are also types of proprioceptors) detect changes in muscle tensions and the rate of that change.

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🔈 WHAT IS BICEPS TENDONITIS?

The biceps muscle has two heads, simply named the long head and the short head. With biceps tendinitis, it’s usually the long head (which attaches to the top front of the shoulder) that gets injured. The long head tendon attaches to the shoulder joint capsule, and it is very near other important shoulder structures, such as your rotator cuff.

When the biceps tendon has any kind of abnormal or excessive stress, it may get inflamed. This includes excessive tension (pulling), compression (pinching), or shearing. If this happens repetitively, your body’s ability to heal itself may lag compared to these stresses, and this can lead to pain and injury via inflammation and swelling.

✳ Risk Factors for Biceps Tendonitis:

1. Repetitive overhead movements.

2. Poor movement mechanics and posture.

3. Weakness in the rotator cuff.

4. Age-related changes.

5. Abrupt increase in upper body exercise routine.

✳ How Do You Know If You Have Biceps Tendonitis?

People with biceps tendonitis often have a deep ache in the front of the shoulder. More specifically, pain is usually localized at the bicipital groove.

Sometimes pain can radiate distally down the arm. Symptoms will usually come on with overhead motions, pulling, lifting, or the follow-through of a throwing motion. Instability of the shoulder may also present as a palpable or audible snap when shoulder motion occurs.

✳ Common Symptoms of Biceps Tendonitis:

1. Sharp pain in the front of your shoulder when you reach overhead.

2. Tenderness to touch at the front of your shoulder.

3. Dull, achy pain at the front of the shoulder, especially following activity.

4. Weakness felt around the shoulder joint, usually experienced when lifting or carrying objects, or reaching overhead.

5. A sensation of “catching” or “clicking” in the front of the shoulder with movement.

6. Pain when throwing a ball.

7. Difficulty with daily activities, such as reaching behind your back to tuck in your shirt, or putting dishes away in an overhead cabinet.

Finding a health practitioner who is a skilled manual therapist may help speed up your recovery. Manual therapy is great to loosen tight muscles, mobilize stiff joints, and improve the blood flow in target areas.

📚 Treatment Plan 📚

👣 Step 1: Reduce Inflammation

The first step that any health practitioner should take is to relieve any possible inflammation. Rest and cold compress will help to reduce inflammation and begin the healing process.

👣 Step 2: Range of Motion

Once the pain has begun to subside, you should start to work on improving your pain-free range of motion. This will include not only the glenohumeral joint, which is what most people think of when they think of the shoulder, but also the neck, trunk, scapula (shoulder blade). If you have adequate flexibility in all of these other parts of your body, your glenohumeral joint won’t have to work as hard.

Two important ranges of motion for the shoulder include: flexion and internal rotation. You should be able to reach all the way overhead (full flexion) and have full internal rotation without pain. Having tight muscles in the back of your shoulder can lead to increased stress at the front of your shoulder, right where your biceps tendon is.

👣 Step 3: Build Strength

Early in your recovery, you can work on pain-free strengthening of the muscles in the shoulder as well as the back muscles that support the shoulder.

The rotator cuff muscles help to stabilize and protect the glenohumeral joint, so any basic shoulder-conditioning program should begin with these.

You also want to focus on stabilizing your scapula, which is the base that the humerus moves on. The shoulder girdle must be strong and stable enough to transfer all the forces between your arm and your body, and it must also be mobile enough to move with the humerus to allow for full range of motion.

👣 Step 4: Functional Training

Once you’ve started the healing process, significantly decreased inflammation, gained full range of motion, and have started strengthening, you’re ready for functional training. This is the last and most rewarding part of rehab because you’re now training to regain full strength and function.

You move with your entire body in a coordinated fashion, whether you want to return to playing baseball or carry a basket of laundry. If you move improperly (PTs refer to this as aberrant motion), this places increased stress to your tissues, which can lead to damage over time. So, even if your diagnosis is biceps tendonitis, a good physical therapist will know to treat the entire body. Whatever your goal is after physical therapy, your treatment should teach you to move more efficiently and optimally prepare you to return to your normal life.

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🔈 WHAT DO YOUR FEET TELL YOU? OVERPRONATION

👣 The feet tell you a lot about what’s happening above them, at rest and during movement.

↪️ The posture (position) your feet are in is the result of what’s happening upstream. Your foot position is intimately related to how well you control the position of your pelvis and how well your hips are able to function as a result of this.

➡️ The stability, strength, and control of your hips and pelvic musculature determines whether you can maintain control of every joint beneath them, and therefore maintain the desired position of your joints at rest and during movement.

🔑 It comes down to having control over your joints, and attaining/maintaining the desired joint positions as you move.

👣 The feet can grant your body a huge amount of stability IF they are in a good position. If you can use your hips and pelvic control to get your feet where you want them, then they have a huge amount of intrinsic muscles that can work to your advantage. But the feet need to be in a desirable position (posture) in order to work optimally.

🔑 All of this can be worked on and changed. The body changes and adapts to what you expose it to. Learning to control your body requires attention and focus at the start, but is essential for overall musculoskeletal/joint health.

🔈THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME

Thoracic outlet syndrome is a disorder characterized by pain and paresthesias in a hand, the neck, a shoulder, or an arm.
Pathogenesis often involves compression of the lower trunk of the brachial plexus (and perhaps the subclavian vessels) as these structures traverse the thoracic outlet below the scalene muscles and over the 1st rib, before they enter the axilla.

Compression may be caused by:
• A cervical rib
• An abnormal 1st thoracic rib
• Abnormal insertion or position of the scalene muscles
• A malunited clavicle fracture
• Thoracic outlet syndromes are more common among women and usually develop between age 35 and 55.

Symptoms and Signs of TOS
Pain and paresthesias usually begin in the neck or shoulder and extend to the medial aspect of the arm and hand and sometimes to the adjacent anterior chest wall. Many patients have mild to moderate sensory impairment in the C8 to T1 distribution on the painful side; a few have prominent vascular-autonomic changes in the hand (e.g., cyanosis, swelling). In even fewer, the entire affected hand is weak.

Rare complications of thoracic outlet compression syndromes include Raynaud syndrome localized to the affected arm and distal gangrene.

Exercise:
• Pectoralis stretch: Stand in a doorway or corner with both arms on the wall slightly above your head. Slowly lean forward until you feel a stretch in the front of your shoulders. Hold 15 to 30 seconds. Repeat 3 times.

• Thoracic extension: While sitting in a chair, clasp both arms behind your head. Gently arch backward and look up toward the ceiling. Repeat 10 times. Do this several times per day.

• Arm slide on wall: Sit or stand with your back against a wall and your elbows and wrists against the wall. Slowly slide your arms upward as high as you can while keeping your elbows and wrists against the wall. Do 3 sets of 10.

• Rowing exercise: Tie a piece of elastic tubing around an immovable object and grasp the ends in each hand. Keep your forearms vertical and your elbows at shoulder level and bent to 90 degrees. Pull backward on the band and squeeze your shoulder blades together. Repeat 10 times. Do 3 sets.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
How much disease it has fought off.
How many times it could have failed but battled on,
how many ways it could have broken but did not.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
And each day it has done this amazing job,
without your help,
without your approval,
your acceptance,
your kindness.

Each day it has soldiered on,
regardless of the constant stream of negativity,
pulsing its way from your brain to your cells.
Not good enough.
Not attractive enough.
Not the right shape.

Perhaps it’s time to see your body for what is truly is,
An amazing and mind-blowingly competent machine.
To get your soul to where it needs to be in this life.
To let you live.

I wonder if you know,
how much better you would be as a team.
I wonder.

Donna Ashworth
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