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Myofascial Release is not massage. Myofascial Release is used to equalize muscle tension throughout the body. Unequal muscle tension can compress nerves and muscles causing pain. Progress is measured by a decrease in the patient's pain and by an improvement in overall posture.
Myofascial Release is a highly specialized stretching technique used by physical therapists and specially rained massage therapist to treat patients with a variety of soft tissue problems.
Fascia is a thin tissue that covers all the organs of the body. This tissue covers every muscle and every fiber within each muscle. All muscle stretching, then, is actually stretching of the fascia and the muscle, the myofascial unit. When muscle fibers are injured, the fibers and the fascia which surrounds it become short and tight. This uneven stress can be transmitted through the fascia to other parts of the body, causing pain and a other symptoms in areas you often wouldn't expect. Myofascial Release treats these symptoms by releasing the uneven tightness in injured fascia.
The therapist will be able to find sore spots just by feel. Often, patients are unable to pinpoint some sore spots or have grown used to them until the therapist finds them. The size and sensitivity of these sore spots, called Myofascial Trigger Points, will decrease with treatment.
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Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT)
NMT is a clinical form of massage designed to release trigger points and reduce chronic pain, tension, and stress. When you are in pain, your body is out of balance and the natural tendency is to compensate for the pain in one area of the body by overusing other muscles that are not in pain. A primary goal of NMT is to locate then treat the specific sources of pain, and help restore the proper balance. By restoring normal physical functioning between the nervous system and the muscles a general harmony is regained.
This restoration of body harmony is accomplished by locating and treating trigger points. Trigger points are small hypersensitive knots that can be found in body tissues, including the muscles, the fascia, the cutaneous section of the skin, ligaments, the tissue surrounding the bone, and even in scars. Trigger points generally become active due to the chronic overwork of a muscle These points are tender, sensitive areas in the muscles that are painful to the touch and trigger pain in other pains of the body. The successful release of trigger points can bring lasting relief from many long-standing chronic pain syndromes.
Neuromuscular Therapy will be used to address five elements that cause pain:
- Ischemia: Lack of blood supply to soft tissues which causes hypersensitivity to touch
- Trigger Points: Highly irritated points in muscles which refer pain to other parts of the body
- Nerve Compression or Entrapment: Pressure on a nerve by soft tissue, cartilage or bone
- Postural Distortion: Imbalance of the muscular system resulting from the movement of the body off the longitudinal and horizontal planes
- Biomechanical Dysfunction: Imbalance of the musculoskeletal system resulting in faulty movement patterns (i.e., poor lifting habits, bad mechanics in a golf swing of tennis stroke, computer keyboarding)
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