Myofascial Release

Fascia is your protective and connective tissue which surrounds, supports, separates and protects every organ of the body. You can think of your fascia as being like cling film wrapped around and between all your body’s inner parts. If that ‘cling film’ is tight, restricted, brittle or damaged in any way, then extremely high pressures are placed on pain sensitive structures that do not reveal themselves in any standard hospital screening tests.

Myofascial release is often a solution to those painful and debilitating conditions that are hard to diagnose in the traditional way, fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome being two notables.

Needless to say, tight or damaged fascia in one part of your body (say the back) can be the source of pain and restricted movement in another (say the legs). This is an all too common scenario involving fascia throughout the body, both for the sports person and non-sports person.

Fascia all too easily become adhered to the muscles it surrounds, restricting what the muscles can achieve. Our myofascial release techniques are aimed at slowly releasing bound myofascia to enable your muscles to regain their flexibility and range of movement free from pain.

If you wish, you can research what fascia inside the body looks like. We will refrain from including such photos on this website though.

When performing myofascial release techniques, no massage oil is used. This helps us to detect myofascial restrictions more easily. It also allows us to work with the natural friction on the skin to generate heat and pressure to help facilitate the release of any restrictions.

Areas that feel rigid, or restricted, are treated and stretched very slowly. You may find that we apply the contact pressure even for a few minutes at a time on the one area to begin releasing the myofascial restriction. Myofascial release techniques are very different from those used in our other massage therapies.