Myofascial Release
Myofascial Release is a gentle yet profoundly effective form of hands-on therapy designed to reduce pain, restore movement, and support deep healing. Using slow, gentle sustained pressure, this approach works with your body—never against it—to help soften areas of tension, restriction, and holding, allowing the tissues (knots) to release without force or injury.
How is John Barnes Myofascial Release therapy different?
* It's different from a typical massage
* It's different from conventional physical therapy
* It's different from chiropractic visits
All three above involves something to be done “to” your body. They all treat a part of your body as if it is separate and not affected by anything else.
By utilizing the John Barnes MFR approach, we treat the whole body which makes these techniques uniquely effective in helping the body facilitate the release of tension in the fascial system. But most importantly, it prioritizes identifying and treating the root cause of your pain and symptoms, providing more than just temporary relief.
Your fascial system supports and protects you, but restrictions in it can cause chronic pain and reduce the ability for movement. The individualized therapy sessions are hands-on treatments, first treating your symptoms to bring you much needed relief, but then seek to find and release the cause of the pain, which may be in a different location on the body.
We look beyond the immediate pain or diagnosis, and over time clients experience more effective results.
Chronic pain can be coming from any number of sources: stress, health conditions, new and old injuries, surgery, trauma, posture, holding patterns, overuse/misuse doing activities you enjoy, emotions, or perhaps your chronic pain remains unexplained.
Just a quick note that our style of MFR is NOT any of these other treatments that can also be referred to as 'myofascial release': deep tissue, trigger point, foam rollers, scraping, ART, structural integration or massage.
You'll receive expert therapy with Karen at Dynamic Myofascial Release