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.

Assessment and Treatment of Low Back Pain – Arcata, California

When a client presents with low back pain, you need to know how to properly assess the cause of the pain and formulate effective treatment strategies.

This workshop covers the evaluation and treatment of some of the most common back pain conditions, including:

• Flexion Intolerant Back Pain
• Extension Intolerant Back Pain
• Disc Herniation
• Facet Joint Pain
• Spondylolisthesis
• Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
• Sciatic Pain and Piriformis Syndrome
• “Back Mice”
• Cluneal Nerve Entrapment

Expand your toolbox of assessment and treatment strategies through a series of demonstrations and practice of these techniques:

• Nerve Glide Techniques
• Soft Tissue Release
• Trigger point therapy
• Strain-Counterstrain
• Resistance Release work

Extensive notes will be provided with this class.
Please bring shorts and a sports bra for women.

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