Precision Neuromuscular Therapy
The Staff of PNMT
Douglas Nelson
The founder and principle instructor of Precision NMT seminars, Doug has taught hundreds of seminars and to various populations from physician's conferences to educational seminars for lay people. Practicing massage therapy since 1977, he has studied with a host of great educators and worked in several clinical environments. He is the president of BodyWork Associates, a sixteen therapist massage therapy clinic in Champaign, IL which has been in operation since 1982.

Doug still maintains a very active practice; he doesn't just teach, he has a busy personal practice (seeing over 1,100 client visits annually); the clinic is the laboratory for the development of PNMT. Doug has treated thousands of clients over the years, from the NBA to the NFL, factory workers,and high level musicians who suffer musculoskeletal pain.

Doug is passionate about the efficacy of the work and has conducted many clinical research studies to investigate PNMT. He is a member of the International Myopain Association and the International Association for the Study of Pain and is currently working on a book on pain mechanisms. He is also a regular columnist for Massage and Bodywork magazine
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Doug is also the author of

Table Lessons: Insights in the Practice of Massage Therapy














His new book entitled The Mystery of Pain will be out soon.

Doug is also a contributing author to the new book
Massage Therapy: Integrating Research and Practice, published by Human Kinetics