About Dr. Mally

Dr. James Mally is a massage teacher, educational content producer, and creator of MassageLibrary.com. He has been doing massage professionally since 1976 and teaching massage classes since 1979. His initial training was a 1000-hour massage program at Lindsey Hopkins School in Miami. He later attended Bastyr University in Seattle, graduating as a Naturopathic Doctor in 1984.

In 1990, he founded Healing Arts Institute, a California state-approved massage therapy school. He owned and directed the school until 2011 and graduated over 3000 massage therapists.

He produced his first massage video, Deep Tissue Massage, in 1996. The video employed a 3-D computer skeleton and is believed to be the first massage video to use 3-D computer graphics. He produced other videos (now DVDs) and workbooks on Sports Massage, Swedish Massage, Side-Lying Massage, and Massage Cupping. These DVDs and workbooks are being used in massage schools worldwide. His Side-Lying Massage DVD has been translated into Japanese and is very popular in Japan.

Dr. Mally sold his massage school in 2011 to have more time to see massage clients and develop, practice, and refine massage techniques. He operates a teaching practice where he works with massage therapists and their problem clients, sharing assessment techniques and strategies to help the clients. Selling the school also allowed Dr. Mally to travel to teach his workshops internationally, produce more DVDs, and develop an online massage library at www.massagelibrary.com.

Dr. Mally is approved by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. Provider #451329-10

Dr. Mally was inducted into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame in 2018.

Nerve Glide Techniques – Falls Church, Virginia

Nerve impingement issues can mimic musculoskeletal problems. Some examples are tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), which may be from entrapment of the radial nerve, or Iliotibial band tightness or pain, which can be from an impingement of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve.

In this workshop, you will learn ways to assess whether a problem is caused by nerve impingement and easy and effective ways to relieve nerve impingement by using movement to tension and glide the nerve along its path.

For the upper extremity, we will cover the assessment of nerve impingement problems, differentiating between median, ulnar, and radial nerve impingement syndromes. We will then work with impingement areas for the brachial plexus, including the nerve roots, scalenes, first rib and clavicle, and pectoralis minor. This will be followed by specific work for impingement areas in the upper extremity for the median, ulnar, and radial nerves. We will follow with neurodynamic work, or nerve gliding, to move the affected nerves through their channels to help improve nerve function, then reassess to note what improvement has occurred.

We will do similar work for the lower extremity, assessing impingement problems with the sciatic, tibial, peroneal, femoral, and obturator nerves. We will work with the lower back, piriformis, psoas, and iliacus before working with specific areas of impingement for the nerves in the lower extremity. We will follow this with neurodynamic work and assessment.

We will also work with assessing and treating cutaneous nerve impingement with specific pain patterns, including the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, cluneal nerves, and the pudendal nerve.

Comprehensive notes will be given to the class. After completing this class, you should be able to help your clients with nerve impingement problems.

Please bring shorts and a sports bra for women. I will show some techniques using massage cups to relieve tension on nerves, so please bring cups if you have them. Cups are not required for this workshop.

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