Myofascial Release or Neuromuscular Therapy

Neuromuscular Therapy

or

Myofascial Release 

$90 for 30 minutes

$180 for 60 minutes

Myofascial Release is a highly specialized stretching technique to treat patients with a variety of soft tissue problems.

To understand what Myofascial Release is and why it works, you have to understand a little about fascia. 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 variety of other symptoms in areas you often wouldn't expect. Myofascial Release treats these symptoms by releasing the uneven tightness in injured fascia.

  Each Myofascial Release technique contains the same components performed by a Massage Therapist:

• find the area of tightness
• a light stretch is applied
• wait for the tissue to relax
• increase the stretch
• repeated until the area is fully relaxed
• then next area is stretched

Myofascial Release requires intense one-on-one treatment time. More traditional physical therapy treatments which are less labor intensive should always be tried first to avoid over-treatment.

Myofascial Release is highly effective in treating patients with the following diagnoses:

• Back strain, chronic back pain, low back pain, thoracic back pain
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Chronic cervical pain
• Complex pain complaints
• Dizziness, vertigo
• Fibromyalgia
• Fibrositis
• Headache
• Myofascial pain dysfunction
• Plantar fasciitis
• Post-Polio symptoms
• Thoracic outlet syndrome
• TMJ dysfunction
• Trigger points, tender points *
• Whiplash

* Trigger Points and tender points cause different types of pain. For example, a Trigger Point in the neck muscles can cause headaches, the sensation of your throat closing or eye pain. Pressure on a Trigger Point causes increased pain at the site and radiating pain in other apparently unrelated parts of the body. Pressure on a tender point causes increased pain only at the tender point itself.