What Is Myofascial Release, And How Does It Work For You?

[By Scott Niekerk] May 28, 2008 Myofascial Release is an extremely effective form of bodywork that helps to reduce pain and stiffness, and gives you back your energy. It is also called manual therapy, or hands-on therapy / healing. It is a gentle form of stretching and balancing which has a profound effect upon the body tissues.

There are many different forms of myofascial release. Physical therapists whom are specialty trained by John Barnes have superior tools to help you. He is the founder of the most widely accepted, gentle and effective form of myofascial release.

To understand how this relates to your body better it may help to understand a little about the anatomy of fascia.

Fascia

Fascia (also called connective tissue) is a tissue system of the body to which relatively little attention has been given in the past.

The fascia is a continuous spiderweb-like network that extends without interruption from the top of the head to the tip of the toes. It surrounds, supports, protects and infuses with every other tissue and organ of the body, including nerves, blood vessels, muscle and bone. Muscle provides the greatest bulk of our body's soft tissue. Because all muscle is enveloped by and ingrained with fascia, myofascial release is the term that has been given to the techniques that are used to relieve soft tissue from the strait-jacket grip of tight fascia ("myo" means "Muscle" in latin).

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