MYOFASCIAL PARTNER RELEASE WORKSHOP

October 22nd 6:30-8:30PM

$75/person

with Amy Broekemeier PT, DPT

You will be introduced to 8-10 basic but powerful MFR techniques that you can safely use to treat your friends and loved ones. Amy will guide you in hand placement, amount of pressure, timing, and the basic understanding and practice of myofascial release techniques from the John Barnes program.

Please wear appropriate clothing to reveal skin, do not use lotions and oils prior to MFR, and be sure your hands are ready to practice these techniques with your partner.

What is Happening?

The health professions had ignored the importance of an entire physiological system, the fascial system that profoundly influences all other structures and systems of the body. This glaring omission had severely affected our effectiveness and the lasting quality of our efforts. Including Myofascial Release into our current evaluatory and treatment regimes allows us to provide a more comprehensive Approach to our patients that is safe, cost efficient, and consistently effective.

Fascial restrictions can exert tremendous tensile forces on the neuromuscular-skeletal and other pain sensitive structures. This enormous pressure (more than 2,000 pounds per square inch) can create the very symptoms that we have so long been trying to eliminate. This knowledge frees us from only trying to relieve symptoms and gives us the tools we need to find and eradicate the cause and effect (symptoms) relationship for a permanent resolution of our patient’s complex problems.

The Mechanism?

It is felt that each time we experience a trauma, undergo an inflammatory process, or suffer from poor postures over time that the fascial system becomes restricted. These restrictions act like the concentric layers of an onion. These adaptive layers slowly tighten until we begin to lose our physiologic adaptive capacity (our margin of error). Therefore, we slowly tighten, losing our flexibility and spontaneity of motion, setting us up for trauma, pain, or restriction of motion. These powerful restrictions begin to pull us out of our three-dimensional orientation with gravity. The goal of Myofascial Release is to help return the individual’s physiological adaptive capacity by increasing space and mobility and restoring three-dimensional balance and returning the structure to as close as potentially possible to its vertical orientation with gravity. This equilibrium allows the individual’s self-correcting mechanisms to come to play and alleviate symptoms and restore proper function.

The Treatment?

A comprehensive treatment program should also include appropriate modalities, exercise and flexibility programs, movement awareness facilitation techniques, nutritional advice, biofeedback and/or psychological counseling. Myofascial Release should be combined with muscle energy, mobilization and manipulation for those skilled at these important procedures, since it is usually fascial restrictions that created the osseous restrictions in the first place.

So, again, we are discussing an Approach that, when combined with the valuable skills we now possess, acts as a facilitator and intensifier for treatment for more consistent effectiveness and results for our patients. This is a total Approach incorporating a physiological system, that when included with traditional therapy, acts as a catalyst yielding impressive, clinically reproducible results.

Excerpted from John F. Barnes, PT

In a Nutshell, that is why Pinnacle Performance has added this skillset to its already very effective set of modalities!