The Center for Integrative Health and Healing

By Sue Coughtry,  LMT
I just completed additional training in myofascial release techniques over the weekend. Myofascial means muscles and the connective tissue wrapping (fascia) around them and around every organ and cell in the body.   The seminar was excellent.  In this seminar we learned how constrictions in the fascia can cause pain, posture issues, and a host of other health problems.  The alignment of the hips can actually cause and definitely intensify irritable bowel syndrome, pelvic pain syndromes, and urinary frequency through myofascial restrictions.
I now have more effective skills on how to address this.  I can also release the chest muscles and diaphragm better for improvement in chronic respiratory problems.  I learned another technique for correcting hiatal hernias that can enhance the usual work that I do for that problem.  And of course I learned more techniques for back, neck, shoulder and facial pain, TMJ disorders, headaches and migraines.  I now have better treatment ideas for plantar fasciitis too.  I know that myofascial release has a reputation for being painful, but this was taught in a gentler, non-painful way that fits in very well with how I do the rest of my work.  I’m very excited about the possibilities for helping more people.  Massage therapy isn’t just for muscle and joint pain; in addition,  it definitely helps digestive, urinary, and respiratory issues as well.  That’s why what I practice is called, “medical massage.”  And I love it!

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