Week 3 - Pain and Fascial adhesion

This week we'll have a closer look at the factors that underly Local Adaptation Syndrome - pain and the pain spasm cycle and fascial dynamics.

This will lead into a complete subjective assessment process for massage therapy which we'll consider next week.

Tasks for the week

1. Read Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage - Chapter 5, pg 164-190
   If you don't have the most recent edition, these are the sections on indications for massage.
   
   
2. Read about Fascia
   
   
3. Elluminate session was held on Wednesday 13th August, 2008. Some of the material in the session was not recorded due to the use of copyrighted images.
   Subject matter
   
   • Pain
   • Fascia & fascial adhesion
   • Medications & assessment