What to expect from your Myofascial Release session
After taking a brief medical history, discussing your goals with you, and assessing your needs, we will together work to customize a unique, therapeutic session to help you reduce stress, increase circulation, decrease pain, and improve your overall range of motion.
In addition to Myofascial Release, you’ll find a vast array of other healing tools listed and described below – including Cranial Sacral techniques that are at your disposal here at Rivermede Retreat. We have your healing needs covered!
The John F. Barnes Myofscial Release® approach
Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion. This essential “time element” has to do with the viscous flow and the piezoelectric phenomenon: a low load (gentle pressure) applied slowly will allow a viscoelastic medium (fascia) to elongate.
Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.)
The use of Myofascial Release allows us to look at each patient as a unique individual. Our one-on-one therapy sessions are hands-on treatments during which our therapists use a multitude of Myofascial Release techniques and movement therapy. We promote independence through education in proper body mechanics and movement, self treatment instruction, enhancement of strength, improved flexibility, and postural and movement awareness.
Consult with Leslie to discuss whether the Myofascial Release® approach is right for you.