Myofascia is the connective tissue that holds our bodies together. Tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and sheaths are all examples of the fascia. Myofascial release therapy is a technique of alleviating pain caused by the uneven tightness in the fascia. This can be done by manual fascial release techniques but also by Flexotaping – The myofascial kinesiology taping method.
In the daily course of our life, we participate in several activities like running, walking, bending, and stretching, and so on. When the body is subject to repetitive motion, it results in straining of our muscles or more precisely, myofascia. The fascia develops snags or speed bumps which restrict its free movement, and also causes development of trigger points.
Myofascial release therapy works on the structural change of fascia, including trigger points for alleviating pain resulting from injuries and poor body postures. Myofascial therapy stretches and flattens the problem areas to regain free and easy motion of the myofascia. The myofascial therapist myofascial taping therapist begins by looking for the problem areas or the myofascia trigger points, posture and restrictions in movements. These therapists undergo proper myofascial release, myofascial taping and myofascial training for determining the tight muscles and sore points in the myofascia using their fingers and hands.
On finding the area where the myofascia is tightened and bunched together, the myofascial therapist uses different manual and taping techniques to relax the tight tissues and ligaments. By the manual techniques he keeps on repeating it till the muscle and fascia is relaxed and moves on to the next spot if necessary. By Flexotaping – the myofascial taping technique it just needs one or a few applications and the tape keeps working for 24 hours a day, whereas the manual techniques end after the treatment.
The manual techniques are sometimes more effective at very deep fascias.
The myofascial taping techniques from Flexotaping are more effective and can often relieve pain when manual techniques and regular kinesiology taping cannot help or are not effective enough to get satisfying results.
The best way is to combine the manual myofascial release techniques with the myofascial kinesiology taping.
The number of myofascial release therapy sessions or myofascial taping sessions (Flexotaping) that a person may need depends on the tightness in the myofascia and the severity of his physical pain. If the pain in shoulders, neck or back is severe or persisted for a long time, one might need to go for multiple myofascial release therapy sessions. However, with every passing session, the stiffness in the myofascia would decrease, eventually relieving the person of pain that he has been suffering from for long. Combined with the myofascial taping, one needs way less sessions with significant better results.
Since myofascial therapy has a holistic and natural approach for treating physical ailments and pains, more and more people are going for it to get rid of back pain, pain in shoulders and neck, and several other chronic ailments and discomforts and even migraine and tinnitus. Given the benefits of myofascial release therapy and its wide-spread popularity, a large number of medical students are aspiring to make their career as myofascial release therapists.
The Myofascial Therapy has become another milestone method, since Markus Erhard has developed Myofascial Kinesiology Taping in 2006 to restore myofascial balance by myofascial taping techniques - different and way more effective than regular kinesiology taping/ kinesio taping – and to relieve pain in one therapy session.
Those of you that are interested to work as a professional myofascial release therapist and are wondering where you can get the best training in the therapy, may visit www.physiotrainingacademy.co.uk You may also visit the website to learn more about myofascia and myofascial taping and the role it plays in determining one’s overall physical health and condition and sporting performance.