Bill Marcella
NMT/CLT/LMBT/NCTMB
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Five Tips to Kick Start
Good Health

Remember to always
drink water!

Move your body daily
with stretches!

Reduce your caffeine
and salt intake!

Eat healthy
unprocessed foods!

Take time alone to
reflect every day!

Myofascial Release could be your solution

Myofascial Release is an effective, hands-on body work technique that gently stretches and restores flexibility to your body's connective tissue called fascia.

Inflammatory responses from poor posture, surgery or trauma cause the fluidity of the fascial system to dehydrate and solidify into fascial restrictions. This solidification process tends to deepen and spread over time, compromising your health.

Fascial restrictions often pull the body out of its optimal alignment, while reducing ease and range of movement. Joints, nerves, blood vessels and other important structures get compressed by this fascial tightening. This can cause many seemingly unrelated symptoms.

Most forms of therapy seek to treat these symptoms without addressing their underlying cause in the fascial system. All of the standardized tests, including MRI, X-Ray, CAT scan, etc. fail to show fascial restrictions. By indentifying and treating the underlying causes of pain and dysfunction, Myofascial Release can gently and safely help resolve even long-standing chronic conditions.

Myofascial Release and massage therapy; the best of both worlds

Massage therapy alone is usually incapable of restoring length and fluidity to the dense, hardened layer of fascial restrictions at the foundation of many pain conditions. Fortunately, Myofascial Release treats these restrictions with consistent therapeutic results.
Massage therapy is uniquely effective at resolving areas of sensitivity and congestion that may remain after Myofascial Release techniques have affected the surrounding fascial restrictions.
Massage therapy and Myofascial Release are an ideal, non-invasive first course of treatment to help you resolve painful physical conditions.
Not only can they help relieve you pain, this powerful, hands-on combination can also provide enormous emotional and psychological benefits as well.

Beneficial in the treatment these conditions to mention only a few:

• Headaches
• TMJ pain
• Neck pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Scoliosis
• Back pain
• Disc problems
• Sciatica
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Sports injuries
• Scar tissue reduced range of motion

Myofascial release is used to evaluate and treat restrictions in the body's contractile connective tissues (muscles) and non-contractile supportive connective tissues (fascia) by the application of gentle traction, pressures and positioning.

Fascia is a complex supportive web throughout the body affecting all components of the musculoskeletal, nervous and visceral (organ) systems.  It surrounds groups of muscle fibres, and entire muscle groups and organs.

While it is not contractile, it can be passively elastically deformed.
That is how it retains tensions from physical and emotional traumas. It is also involved when a person suffers chronic pain or physical dysfunction. Chronically tense muscles restrict blood flow and fatigue the body.

Both fascia and muscle tissues can become shortened if they are improperly used. As well, layers of fascia can stick together. Myofascial release techniques are used to coax muscles in spasm to relax, and break adhesions in the fascia.

Bodies respond to these therapies by releasing tension that has been stored in the fascia, thus allowing more functional flexibility and mobility of the muscles, fascia and associated structures.

Fascial Mobilization (FM) aims to produce a well-balanced, mobile and symmetrical body within the skeletal, soft tissue and CranioSacral system. The fascial system consists of a laminated connective tissue sheath that spreads uninterrupted throughout the body in a three-dimensional web.

Because it is an integral part of all anatomical structures, it plays a vital role in the functioning of the body. Restrictions within the fascial system can contribute to pain and dysfunction. These restrictions can be caused by postural imbalances, asymmetries, gravitational pulls, induced micro trauma or macro trauma, inflammation and abnormal tension or pressure.