Not only do Myofascial restrictions create pain, headaches, and the symptoms of Fibromyalgia, but they also seem to speed the aging process internally and externally.
In my Myofascial Release I seminar, I teach therapists the importance of doing self treatment, so they can treat themselves and so they can also teach their clients to treat themselves. As the therapists take my advanced Myofascial Release seminars, those that take my advice of doing regular self treatment state that they look and feel younger!
Over the years from habitual pain expressions, grimacing, and gravity the fascia tightens and deepens the lines and wrinkles in one’s face and neck. Of the many techniques that I teach is the “fascial facial”. These techniques can provide a much more youthful appearance to your face and neck.
Obviously, the internal beauty of physiological health is also very important. The environment of every cell, the fascia’s ground substance, ideally should be fluid. Trauma and thwarted inflammatory responses tend to solidify the ground substance. This limits the amounts of oxygen, nutrition, biochemicals, hormones, information and energy that the 50 trillion cells receive. The pressure of the restricted fascial system is interfering with the delicate inner mechanisms of the cell. Recent research is showing that debris, waste products, and toxins that become trapped in the cell may be what can lead to the decline of the aging process.
I believe the solidification of the ground substance blocks cellular excretion and does not allow this and the toxins to reach the lymphatic system so they become trapped and cannot flush out to purify cells.
I believe that excessive pressure and dehydration of the fascia’s ground substance forces our molecules to tangle and stiffen with age. Cross links form, gluing the molecules together. Cross links stiffen our collagen and make our skin wrinkle. Chemists call this the advanced glycation end products, AGE.
The goal of Myofascial Release is to release the cross links and eliminate the pressure on our cells and their important environment.
Thanks,
John
For more information about Myofascial Release, you can now access two separate excerpts from the Fireside Chat with John F. Barnes, PT DVD on ‘You Tube’! Just click on the following links:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRuS9xAbMo
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Part 2
