About Steven Hefferon

Steven Hefferon CMT PTA CPRS holds a BS degree in Health/Fitness and an AS. degree as a Physical Therapy Asst. He is both a Health & Fitness Expert and a Certified Massage Therapist and has combined his skills to become a Post-Rehabilitation specialist. Steve is co-founder of The healthy Back Institute and was instrumental in creating and producing the instructional video Lose the Back Pain. The goal when founding The Healthy Back Institute was to help educate people to the many alternatives that are available to people, beyond traditional treatments.
Steve Hefferon CMT PTA is currently the Research Director for both The Healthy Back Institute and Living Well Nutraceuticals, a Certified Massage Therapist in the State of Maryland (MD#000039). (1997 to Present) and is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. (2002 to 2006). Steven P Hefferon is also a Professional member of the American Massage Therapy Association. (1997 to Present). He may be contacted via support@losethebackpain.com

Articles by Steven Hefferon

  1. Back Pain: Causes and Treatments Reviewed

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    This article starts by explaining that back care treatment is a complicated process and that the most successful patients are those who continually search for and try new therapies ...

  2. Trigger Point Therapy

    Listed in bodywork

    The author explains what triggers a trigger point (a type of muscle stiffness), why they cause trouble, how to recognize if you have trigger points and how long it takes before you ...

  3. You Don't have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain

    Listed in back pain

    The article begins by referring to a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did MRI scans of 98 people who did not have back pain, and found that man...

Book reviews by Steven Hefferon

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