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Not all table-assisted stretching needs to be elaborate or performative. Sometimes a simple, isolated stretch is the most effective technique for the job.
With the explosion of highly choreographed, social-media-friendly stretching techniques, it’s worth asking: are we choosing techniques because they’re effective for the client—or because they look impressive on camera?
Complex doesn’t automatically mean better. Good therapy is about intent, appropriate application and outcome, not performance.
What do you guys think about the current wave of performative stretching techniques?
Your anterior lower chain takes a beating from sitting, training, running, lifting and everyday life.
Think hip flexors, quads, adductors and the tissues across the front of the hip—when these areas lose extensibility, movement elsewhere often has to compensate.
The answer isn’t always stretching harder. It’s learning to stretch smarter—using better positioning, breathing, traction and movement to create lasting change.
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09/11/2026
1. It’s not simply a hip abductor. Its anterior fibers contribute to hip flexion/internal rotation, while posterior fibers contribute more to extension/external rotation. Fiber orientation and hip position substantially change its mechanical role.
2. Its biggest job may be controlling the pelvis. During single-leg stance and gait, glute med generates an abduction moment that counters the external adduction moment created by body weight—preventing excessive contralateral pelvic drop.
3. Different regions behave almost like different muscles. EMG studies show anterior, middle, and posterior subdivisions can have distinct activation patterns depending on the task, supporting a functional-compartment model rather than treating glute med as one homogeneous unit.
4. Weakness isn’t the only problem. Timing, motor control, endurance, and the ability to generate force rapidly can matter as much as maximal strength. Someone can test reasonably strong on the table yet demonstrate poor frontal-plane control during gait, running, or a single-leg squat.
5. Its influence travels down the kinetic chain. Reduced hip abductor control can permit greater femoral adduction and/or internal rotation during weight-bearing, potentially altering mechanics at the patellofemoral joint, tibia, ankle, and foot. This is why glute med assessment can be relevant even when the patient’s symptoms aren’t at the hip.
What about trigger points..
Classically, glute medius is described as having three common myofascial trigger-point regions:
* Posterior fibers: near the posterior iliac crest. Referral tends to be into the posterior iliac crest, SI-region and upper buttock, sometimes resembling low-back/SI pain.
* Middle fibers: more centrally beneath the iliac crest. Referral is typically lateral buttock and around the greater trochanter, and can be confused with lateral hip pain.
* Anterior fibers: anterior portion of the muscle near the iliac crest. Referral tends to spread toward the lateral hip and upper lateral thigh.
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MASSAGE EDUCATORS: THE SEMINAR ISN’T ABOUT YOU.
Over the years, we’ve heard some pretty disappointing stories from therapists attending continuing-education seminars.
Instructors who refuse to take questions.
Instructors who advertise a full-day workshop and finish three or four hours early because they’ve run out of material.
Instructors who barely work in the field anymore—and sometimes brag about not maintaining a massage practice.
Instructors teaching other professionals after having barely two years of real-world experience themselves.
Instructors who advertise one subject, then spend significant portions of the workshop teaching unrelated material to show what else they know.
Instructors repeatedly reminding the room about who they’ve worked with, what teams they’ve treated, or where they’ve worked.
And one that really stood out to me:
A seminar where the students barely got to practice.
Instead, the instructor continually demonstrated technique after technique, showing the room how he performs massage.
But here’s the problem:
The students weren’t there to watch the instructor do massage.
They were there to learn how to do it themselves.
Hands-on education requires hands-on time.
Demonstrate the technique.
Explain the why.
Let the students practice.
Observe them.
Correct them.
Answer questions.
Then practice again.
An instructor’s job isn’t to spend eight hours demonstrating how talented they are.
It’s to transfer their knowledge and skills to the people who paid to learn from them.
There’s nothing wrong with having an impressive résumé.
There’s nothing wrong with being highly skilled.
And there’s nothing wrong with demonstrating your expertise.
But your expertise is the starting point of good teaching—not the objective.
Your students didn’t pay to leave impressed by how good you are.
They paid to leave better at what they do.
The seminar isn’t your stage.
It’s their classroom.
08/23/2026
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Building a successful massage practice is a process.
Of course, you need to be great at what you do—that’s a given. But one of the biggest mistakes I see therapists make is neglecting the business side of massage.
Unfortunately, being the “best therapist” doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll build the most successful practice.
Often, the therapists who succeed are the ones who know how to communicate their value, build a network, create a professional brand, market themselves, and develop long-term relationships.
Your hands-on skills matter enormously. But so do the soft skills that allow people to discover you, trust you, refer to you, and keep coming back.
Don’t just work on becoming a better therapist. Work on becoming better at the business of being a therapist.
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