Nicole Trombley and Rachelle Clauson are massage therapists and co-directors of AnatomySCAPES, where they provide anatomy education for hands-on professionals online and in person in their dissection labs and workshops in San Diego, California. You can accesss more content www.anatomyscapes.com/ABMP.
Though bodyworkers can’t prevent or eliminate scar tissue, our skillful touch can aim to influence its development, remodeling process, and long-term integration into the surrounding tissue.
Gliding relationships between muscles exist all over the body. Knowing where they are can help massage therapists explore their clients’ tissue mobility for healthy function.
The IT band functions as part of a three-dimensional system with connections above to the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and tensor fascia lata; below to the lateral knee; and deep to the femur via the lateral intermuscular septum.
