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Ruth Duncan's In Touch Education Blog
Touch shapes perception and expectation, not just tissues, influencing how people experience, interpret and respond to care.
The value of touch therapy is not only in what it does to tissues but in how it helps our clients feel safe, supported and understood. Through skill, experience and training, we use touch as part of a wider therapeutic encounter. This blog invites you to reflect on your current practice and teaching, and to strengthen an evidence informed approach that supports better care and professional longevity.
What Has Fascia Really Got To Do With Chronic Neck Pain and Depression?
A recent paper by Overmann and colleagues has encouraged a familiar leap in interpretation. If people with chronic neck pain and depression show differences in trapezius fascial properties, does that ...
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Touch Therapies: The Immediate Power of Therapeutic Touch
Touch is one of the most fundamental ways human beings connect, communicate, and comfort each other. In healthcare and wellbeing settings,...
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Re-thinking What Happens When We Touch.
Touch isn’t just physical, it’s perceptual, emotional, and deeply communicative. For manual therapists, this should change everything.
Every time we place a hand on a client, we activate a complex...
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Touch and the PIEZO ion channels - their role in pain
When a manual touch therapist places their hands on the skin of a client, a sophisticated chain of biological events begins. What may feel like heat, pressure, movement or stretching is detected by sp...
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Fascia - Rethinking the Missing Link
For years, fascia has been central to discussions about persistent pain, with many manual and movement therapists believing it holds the key to unlocking long term discomfort. The idea that pain can b...
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Does fascia hold memories?
Over 15 years ago I wrote an article called ‘If your tears could talk, what would they say?’ It was published in a national massage magazine at the time called Today’s Therapist.
This phrase is often...
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Unwinding. Is It All A Windup? - Fascia, Fact and Fiction
Over the last 25 years I have been a dedicated fascia addict.
While I still appreciate the immense value of understanding what fascia is, what it does, and how it seems to be involved in everything,...
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Does the brain and immune system influence frozen shoulder?
As a soft tissue therapist specialising in myofascial release (MFR), I've always been intrigued by the intricate interplay between the body's systems and how they manifest in conditions like frozen sh...
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Does Massage Spread Cancer?
Does Massage Spread Cancer?
Here we are again with this question, but it is a very important question that should be addressed. This has been prompted by the recent Thinking Practitioner Podcast with...
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Bridging the Gap: Fascia and Pain Science
This year marks my 25th year in this profession although I ‘dabbled’ for about 10 years previously jumping from course to course none of which had any formal structure or qualifications; they were sim...
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