Welcome

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Welcome to Myopress, your muscle place. This blog is to help those with acute soft tissue pain as well as chronic soft tissue pain. Let me start by introducing myself….my Name is Ephraim Colwell and I am a massage therapist as well as a neuromuscular therapist. I also have training in A.R.T., Sports Massage, and […]

How Neuromuscular Therapy Can Help You

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If you are a runner, athlete, or otherwise enjoy regular exercise but suffer from chronic pain, neuromuscular therapy may be able to help you. Neuromuscular therapy is a kind of soft tissue massage that works on retraining the muscles and relieving pain. Neuromuscular therapy gets its name because it aims to work with both muscles […]

Antagonist Pair

antagonist pair muscles

With this being a short week because of Thanksgiving I will make this short and sweet. Did you know that the muscle system in your body function like the yin and yang? Certain muscle areas of your body have its direct opposite and as a result they complement each other. Pretty amazing stuff right? Definitely! […]

The Basics

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With Thanksgiving over and Christmas and the New Year around the corner many people begin to plan for the New Year and the New Year resolutions. In this post I want to talk to you about how your muscles work so when you start working out you will understand what is actually happening with your […]

How Neuromuscular Therapy Can Relieve Sciatica Pain

Diagram illustrating sciatica with a human figure, indicating pain areas and nerve pathways.

If you suffer from sciatica, you know that the pain can range from irritating to debilitating. Ibuprofen and other standard pain relievers are only minimally effective for helping sciatica pain. For deeper and longer lasting relief, you need to get closer to the root of the problem. Neuromuscular massage is one of the best ways […]