What is myotherapy? ("Myo-" = Latin for muscle) therefore literally, Muscle Therapy

Myotherapy in Australia was a term decided on by RMIT, Melbourne in 1989 to differentiate the level of training in their 3 year full-time (5 days a week, 8 hours a day), from the many short trainings in remedial massage.
Then as now, unfortunately, massage therapists can do 2 days training over a weekend and on the Monday join a professional  association as a member and get professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
They can somewhat truthfully advertise to be qualified, experienced, insured, and belong to a professional body.

RMIT in 1985, started offered the first Government funded massage course in Australia. The intake was limited to 20, and 2 places had to be reserved for the visually impaired. There were more than 400 applications for those spots.
I was fortunate to be accepted into the 1986 intake graduating in 1989 after 2,300 hours of training. 
The myotherapy training then was very science based with a nuclear physicist as Head of School. In the first year, students didn't touch a body. Subjects were hard core science, physics, chemistry, anatomy, physiology.  Even quantum physics, so if your want a conversation about quarks or black holes, I'm your man.
Later subjects included biophysics, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, nutrition, postural assessment, corrective exercise and computing science.
Today's myotherapy training bears little resemblance to that initial training, and can be as little as 6 months part-time added to a Diploma of Remedial Massage.

Today, Myotherapy is said to be "The evidence based assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal pain and associated conditions".
In a nutshell, a myotherapist will have had more training than a remedial massage therapist, have additional skills, especially in assessment using a wider range of orthopaedic tests than most massage therapists, and may employ additional techniques especially myofascial dry needling of trigger points.

Other treatment techniques used in myotherapy include TENS, Myofascial Release technique (MFR), Active Release Technique (ART), Thermal (Heat) therapy/Cryotherapy (Cold therapy/icing), Corrective exercise (Stretch.Strengthen), diet and nutritional advice. 
I have a unique style, as I am also a nationally registered Chinese medicine practitioner in the division of acupuncture.
My style is a blend of all my trainings influences and very East meets West with techniques drawn from China, Japan, Thailand, and Indonesia married with orthodox Western medicine techniques.
Myotherapy has a strong history of being at the  forefront of effective treatment for physical, mental and emotional pain.
Myotherapists strive to work from a firm evidence base.




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