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Movement REV I teach sports healthcare pros how to get better outcomes & unreal results even for complex cases.

MovementREV is a company founded by Anna Hartman AT, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, PMA-CPT. Anna is passionate about improving athletes' performance and assimilating all the current movement science information into tangible take home pieces for both the athlete and sports rehabilitation or reconditioning clinician. The focus is intelligent movement through awareness and application of blending foundational science and current manual / therapeutic approaches.

Where it hurts isn’t always where it starts.When the arm has nerve tension, the usual move is nerve glides. Sometimes th...
10/20/2026

Where it hurts isn’t always where it starts.

When the arm has nerve tension, the usual move is nerve glides. Sometimes that’s right. But a lot of the time the upper extremity isn’t the source. The viscera or the CNS create reflexive tension in the cervical fascia, and the arm is just where it shows up.

So before you treat the arm, check under the jaw.

The hyoid floats there, held only by muscles. Those muscles live in the mid-cervical fascia, which runs down the neck, under the clavicle, and into the armpit, right where the brachial plexus lives.

Swipe through for the steps:
1. Test the arm. Straight elbow, wrist back, arm out and up. Note where you first feel the stretch.
2. Find the hyoid.
3. Follow the muscles up to the tongue and jaw, down to the shoulder and clavicle.
4. Follow the fascia down the neck, under the clavicle, into the armpit.
5. Hold the hyoid with one hand. Gently spread the clavicles with the other.
6. Recheck the arm. See what changed.

One small, precise technique. More range of motion, less nerve tension in the arm.

But the technique is only half of it. The other half is knowing when to use it and where to start.

Save this for your next patient with arm symptoms that aren’t changing.

Comment “LTAP” and I’ll send you the details on the LTAP® Level 1 course.

10/20/2026

Where it hurts isn’t always where to begin treatment.

Nerve tension in the upper extremity can limit range of motion, cause pain, and affect motor control.

But he answer isn’t always nerve glides. Most of the time when it comes to the upper extremity the problem doesn’t start there.

Commonly problems can be referred from the viscera or the CNS, often both of those areas will create reflexive tension in the cervical fascia.

Any easy place to start is a technique targeting the mid-cervical fascia via the hyoid bone and the clavicles. This will have a powerful effect on the cranial base and the thoracic viscera as well as the diaphragm and of course the upper extremity!

The hyoid bone floats under your jaw, held only by muscles. Those muscles live in the mid-cervical fascia, which runs down the neck, under the clavicle and into the armpit, right where the brachial plexus lives.

So I check the arm first. Then I hold either side of the hyoid with one hand, gently stretch the clavicles apart with the other, and recheck.

More range of motion, less nerve tension in the arm, from one small, precise stretching technique to the mid-cervical fascia.

A technique is only half of it. The other half is knowing when to do it and where to start.

Want an assessment that helps you find where to start? Comment “LTAP” and I’ll send you the details on the LTAP® Level 1 course.

10/20/2026

She came in with significant hip pain. I barely touched her hip.

Her body pointed me to her cranium first, so that's where I started. By the end of the session her hip extension had improved dramatically and she walked out with minimal to no pain.

Six weeks later she came back for a tune-up. In between, she flew to Spain and back and walked 50 miles in three days. The pain hadn't come back, and she'd kept all the range of motion we restored.

That's the part I care about. Not the change in the treatment session. The change that holds.

When results don't stick, it's usually not because you treated the hip wrong. It's because the hip wasn't the driver. Sometimes the driver is the nervous system. Sometimes it's the viscera. The LTAP® gives you a way to find it and treat it inside an orthopedic framework.

If your patients improve and the results don’t stick comment “LTAP” and I’ll send you the link to join the LTAP Level 1 course.

It’s not that the biomechanics don’t matter when it comes to injury, pain, and dysfunction.It’s that there is more leadi...
10/11/2026

It’s not that the biomechanics don’t matter when it comes to injury, pain, and dysfunction.

It’s that there is more leading to why things are “off”.

One of the main jobs of the musculoskeletal system is to protect the vital organs, so it seems reasonable that the body my limit mobility, change motor control, and be sensitive to pain, when there are visceral dysfunctions.

And spoiler alert any movement and any treatment has been effecting the viscera- you just haven’t been seeing it through that lens.

Learn how to assess and treat from this lens, a more whole organism paradigm can be a game changer it getting faster results that stick for your clients!

Comment “visceral” and I’ll send you the link to download the visceral referral cheat sheet.

A mediocre technique in the right place beats the best technique in the wrong place.I first heard a version of this in a...
10/02/2026

A mediocre technique in the right place beats the best technique in the wrong place.

I first heard a version of this in a Barral course, and it’s shaped how I practice ever since. I love visceral manipulation. But the LTAP® doesn’t ask you to drop what you do or learn a whole new toolbox first.

Your manual therapy, needling, exercise, Pilates, DNS, or PRI is already reaching the viscera and nervous system. LTAP® shows you where to point it, using orthopedic tests you likely already know plus osteopathic inhibition testing.

Online enrollment for the Fall 2026 LTAP® Level 1 cohort closes tonight, October 1. Comment “LTAP” and I’ll send you the details.

10/01/2026

Part 3 of 9: The orthopedic objective assessment. 🦵🏽

The LTAP® already told me where treatment starts: a central nervous system tension pattern on the left. Now I pause and ask Amy what’s going on.

Right hip pain. Front, back, inside, outside, moving around. Some snapping when she moves her thigh. Tension down into her calf. She’d been walking 6 to 10 miles at a time in new shoes for a couple of weeks.

Then I gather my orthopedic markers:
Hip flexion: she started guarding at about 20 degrees.
Hip extension: her pelvis came along early. Not much there, lacking about 45 degrees from neutral.
Passive knee bend: her pelvis rotated to avoid tension through the front of the hip at around 45 degrees of knee flexion.
Slump test: tension in her low back, and she kept trying to control it, positive contralateral leg lift indicating CNS.

She’s a yoga teacher, so she’s really good at managing her body. That makes it harder to see what her body does before she catches it. So I gave her something else to think about. Saying every other month backwards, out loud, takes away her ability to guard, and the tension shows up.

Put together: neural tension on the right, the side of her pain.

What I didn’t do: a bunch of provocative hip tests to rule in or out labral or arthritic stuff. She has a big physical performance coming up, and irritating her hip more wasn’t going to help her. I already know where the body is telling me to go.

These markers aren’t for diagnosis today. They’re my retest. After every round of treatment, I come back to them to see if what I did actually mattered.

And notice: the pain is on the right. The LTAP® sent me to the left side of her head. 👀

That’s Part 4.

The online LTAP® Level 1 Fall cohort closes October 1st. Comment “LTAP” and I’ll send you the link!

Follow along for the rest of the 9-part series. 🎬

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