Myofascial Release

So John, er, Mr. Barnes,

    The work of yours that I have heard about is perking me into a bit of a chat.
My only experience in a myofascial release class was not with you or your group but it was SO painful that I left it feeling unloved and certain that the work was not for me. You speak of things that do interest me, our intuition, water, emotion etc. What is your experience with the Trager Approach?

Virginia

Virginia,

   The Trager Approach is excellent.   Myofascial Release is the “”missing link” in this and other forms of therapy, massage, energy work, and it can significantly increase your effectiveness. 

    I have been teaching Myofascial Release seminars for well over 30 years.  As you may have noticed, “Copy Cat” Myofascial Release courses are popping up and these courses do not teach the same principles or techniques that we do.  They teach what we call the old form of Myofascial that is forceful, mechanical, and very painful and only produces temporary results.    Many of the theories of these courses are based on information that has been obsolete for over 70 years!

   My Myofascial Release principles were developed from my personal experience with pain. My theory of Myofascial Release is explained in detail in my monthly column titled, “Therapeutic Insight”. To learn more, you can click on the following link to read the first Therapeutic Insight column. 

http://www.massagemag.com/News/massage-news.php?id=6745&catid=62&title=therapeutic-insight-the-myofascial-release-perspective

   My approach to Myofascial Release is safe, gentle, and produces consistent results in reducing pain, headaches, and fibromyalgia symptoms.  The goal of the Myofascial Release therapist is to return the individual to a pain free, active lifestyle. 

    Thanks for your comments.

Sincerely,

John

    As you know, the state of a current health care system is a hot topic among many people including politicians, health care workers and consumers.  There has been a lot of speculation about what is going to happen to our health care system in the future.  But what concept they are missing is that most therapists are taught obsolete techniques that only produce temporary results which drive up health care costs.

   All of this consternation about the collapsing health-care system is to me no more than a reshuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic. The Titanic is an inept health-care system based on principles that are more than 300 years old and were proven to be obsolete in 1923 by Max Planck, the founder of the Quantum Theory. Many of the principles taught in medical, dental and therapeutic schools have been proven to be wrong for more than 70 years and yet are still being taught. Medical theory has degraded into the biochemistry of disease, as if we were just mindless bags of chemicals.  A massive amount of recent research supporting our experience with myofascial release has shown that fascial restrictions change the shape of the cell and the viscosity of its surrounding environment, the extra-cellular matrix.

   For more information about the future of health care, you can access John’s new Therapeutic Insight article titled, “The Titanic is going down” at the following link: http://www.massagemag.com/News/massage-news.php?id=8721&catid=62&title=therapeutic-insight-the-myofascial-release-perspectivethe-titanic-is-going-down .

   As always, feel free to ask any questions or add your valuable insights on this topic.

Thanks,

            John

In addition, below is a comment from my friend, “The Cayman Cat,” giving an update on his condition:

Dear John,
Thanks to everyone out there sending me support with their prayers and love and light. It is greatly appreciated. I know I must have written you in the middle of the night and didn’t proof read my work prior to sending it out since my last name lost an “a” in it. So just for the record it’s East, George Lee East, P.T. aka The Cayman Cat, Toast and Breeze. My email address is breeze_east@hotmail.com (that is an underscore between the breeze and east). I really do appreciate hearing from everyone and forgive me if it takes a while to get back with you right away, since I seem to be having a lot of low energy days lately and the pain meds make me feel totally out of it! I personally believe I am going to figure out how to lick this thing since I was just coming into my own as a therapist, energy worker and being able to reframe the consciousness behind the cause of my client’s problems when this happened to me. I would love to hear from the Old Mastery Group and anyone who is into alternative healing techniques, especially remote work. Anyway, The Cayman Cat Lives! I also can’t wait to come out to play again with all of John’s MFR family. I got way too much stuff on my plate to do before packing it up for good. Too much yet to be learned and too much fun yet to be had. So keep me in your prayers in a posititive light and if anyone needs a practice patient, pick me, pick me, pick me! Until then,
Lots of Love & Light,
George Lee East, P.T.
Breeze
The Cayman Cat