An Introduction to Myofascial Release

Myofascial Release Could Be the Most Effective Therapy in the History of Health Care...

All the bumps, falls, breaks, and surgeries during all the years of your life cause your tissues to get stiffer and tighter. These "restrictions" build up over time and make everything harder, causing your body to get less mobile, more likely to be injured, and less able to repair and recover.

Myofascial Release uses gentle, sustained pressure to help those stiffened, restricted tissues un-stiffen and become pliable again. This takes the pressure off your joints, frees impinged nerves and discs, and allows your body to repair overly stressed and hurting spots.

With Myofascial Release, you can recover function and mobility, end the pain, and feel good again.

Here’s a Quick Intro to How Myofascial Release Began...

Like probably all innovation and change, MFR got started when the current wisdom and knowledge wasn't cutting it. John F Barnes, PT, LMT, NCTMB had injured his low back and none of the established therapies were helping him. So...he tried various other things and found that putting pressure into the sore tissues helped. Eventually he realized he must be working with the fascial system, since what he was feeling didn't follow any muscle origin and insertion points. He found that the tissue responded better (and he got more relief) as he held lighter and longer.

He tried using the approach on his patients too and it wasn't long before they were all requesting him and not his other therapists. So he had to teach.

Now, over fifty years later, John Barnes, PT, LMT, NCTMB is a highly sought after teacher and therapist as people will travel across the world to train with and be treated by him. John and the therapists he has trained are on the leading edge of a transition in health care – one that is pulling away from the logical, but flawed, approaches and absurdly reductionist treatments of standard western medicine.

The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach® treats the human being as a complete, whole person – not a mechanical, fragmented system of symptoms.

Here Are Just Some of the Additional Benefits People Experience With MFR...

Most people seek myofascial release treatment for a particular symptom, a bad back, neck pain, headaches, etc. etc.

What almost no one realizes at first is just how much is going on in their body! The pain they're complaining about is just the tip of the iceberg!

Now, pretty much everyone would LOVE it if they could just take a pill, or do a little thing, and have the pain go away... Right?

Has that ever really worked?

Quick fixes don't last, we all know this.

Myofascial release works long term because it is thorough. It doesn't cover-up or numb out the symptoms. MFR helps you work through all the twisted, overlapping layers of old injuries and restrictions (the reasons nothing you've tried has worked very well) – to help you regain a body that not only feels better and younger, but actually performs like it too.

Along with reducing or eliminating their pain, people who get myofascial release typically experience

In short, they thrive – not just get by.

How does a drug compare with all its side effects???

MFR Helps With MANY Different Types of Problems…

Back Pains

Whether it's upper or lower back, disc herniations or nerve impingements, rigid and immobile, or weak and painful – myofascial release is excellent for back issues. Fascial restrictions twist and compress the spine, hold it in misalignment, and lead to pinched nerves and crushed or slipped discs.

When you release the restrictions, you get alignment, mobility, and room for everything to heal and strengthen. And of course, less pain.

Neck/Head/Shoulders

Myofascial restrictions lead to many varieties of issues and symptoms, but simply put, nerves get impinged and pulled, joints get sheared, twisted, and jammed, and lymph flow gets slowed or blocked. Symptoms and pain will happen somewhere! Myofascial release frees the tissues and takes the pressure off of pain-sensitive structures.

Nerve Impingements and Tendonitis

When the fascial system is restricted, it causes twists and pulls throughout your body. Nerves are supported and contained within fascial structures and can't handle much extra pressure. The weight of a single human hair is enough to interfere with nerve function... Fascial restrictions can place up to 2000 lbs of pressure in places that were never meant to support that!

If you've got nerve pain, or repetitive motion injuries, there is almost certainly no need for surgery or nerve blocks! Myofascial release can restore the glide and ease the tension on nerves and tendons so that they don't keep getting damaged.

Weak, Painful Joints

Arthritis, repetitive motion injury, etc... Joints need aligned environments free of excessive tension, pressure, and twisting. Myofascial restrictions cause distortion in your body and lead to overwhelming forces being applied on your joints. Then, as you use those joints, it's like grinding your gears, or running your engine without enough oil. Sooner or later, things are going to break down and hurt.

Myofascial release takes that pressure and distortion out of your body, allowing joints the lubricated movement they need, free from excessive stress. Then your body can repair and get things strong again. It's really quite surprising, the limited function people are putting up with…

Chronic and Systemic Conditions

Ah, the people in this group... They hurt and hardly anyone really believes them. Doctors don't know what to do or how to explain it. General and widespread pain.

Okay, so myofascial restrictions can cause some pretty specific pains and issues. But they can also cause widespread chaos and havoc. Imagine if multiple nerves are getting pulled on with almost every move you make. And many joints are stressed to the point of immobility, while others are forced to be hyper-mobile. How about if even your skin is glued to the layers below, making every move just a bit (or a lot) painful?

Organs and digestive systems are fascial structures as well and can easily have their performance affected by restrictions throughout your body. Even things like heartburn and acid reflux can be helped.

If you're dealing with the confusing and frustrating widespread pain of these chronic "conditions," then you very much need to get to a skilled myofascial release therapist. Don't think about it, don't hesitate, just do it. How much longer do you want to deal with all that pain?

Did You Know That There Are Different Types of MFR?

Before you go jumping after anyone who claims to do myofascial release, you need to know there are different approaches. Rolfing, Structural Integration, Graston Technique, FasciaBlasting, Foam Rolling & Lacrosse Balls... All of these can basically be grouped together into what we call soft tissue mobilization. It means, get in there with a tool, an elbow, something, and "break up" those restrictions.

This can be a powerful approach. And a very painful one too. I don't want to knock on these techniques too much, they can be helpful. But they are essentially trying to force and break a tissue system that can't be forced. And will heal itself up tighter and stronger if you break it.

By comparison, The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach® uses gentle, sustained pressure to aid the dehydrated, glued, and stuck tissues so they can rehydrate, unglue, and unstick. It's like melting an ice cube instead of smashing it into smaller ice chunks.

This approach leads to longer-lasting, more thorough changes and healing. And it's gentle enough to be used even with the most pain-sensitive people.

People Are (Still) Skeptical About MFR Though

It probably wouldn't be fair to talk about myofascial release without bringing up the fact that doctors in particular tend to be skeptical. That really has to do with focus. They've been looking at particular chemicals and nerve pathways and such. Their approach to the myofascial system has pretty much been "cut it out of the way." It's a whole body system that is difficult to study when you're looking at one particular part. It's also mostly been studied in cadavers where the fascial tissue is dry and brittle, which is a lot like studying a telephone pole and thinking you know all about living trees.

Nowadays, leading edge research is excitedly studying all the unexpected ways that the myofascial system is responsible for shaping our health and function. Doctors are coming around, if slowly sometimes.

So it turns out, as a society, we've accepted too little when it comes to health and vitality. Feeling good, moving well, and enjoying your later years really is possible. Recovery from so many afflictions isn't as hard as we think. It just takes a different focus, a different approach... If that sounds good to you, there are lots of different options for you – you can arrange to talk to me on the phone, you can request a free (no obligation) MFR “discovery” session, or you can learn more about Myofascial Release and who it’s for by claiming your free report below.

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Committed to Restoring Your Potential,

Michael Sudbury
Specialist Myofascial Release Therapist

"Look Who Else Came For Treatment at Release Works Myofascial Therapy and Left Feeling More ACTIVE, HEALTHY And HAPPY... In Just a Few Short Weeks!"

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