Myofascial Release

I have had the opportunity to treat a multitude of animals (racehorses, dogs, cats, and birds) successfully for many years. It is the most loving thing in the world. They respond quickly and beautifully and always come back to ask for more treatment. I would like to relate a story about a racehorse that was in serious trouble. If you would read my Therapeutic Insight article,  you will see more of the details.  Thank you for your interest. (http://www.massagemag.com/News/massage-news.php?id=11441)

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

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 Myofascial Release can achieve a more youthful appearance and reduce TMJ pain and headaches. You may want to read this important article in the nationally acclaimed magazine, Les Nouvelles Esthetiques, about how Myofascial Release can be utilized successfully in the spa setting.  www.LNEONLINE.com.

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

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What do the following concepts have to do with Myofascial Release?

               “If you were to uncoil the DNA in all the cells of your body

                it would stretch ten billion  miles from here to Pluto and

               back,” (Discovery Magazine, Apirl 2011).

               British particle physicist Brian Cox stated, “Light travels

               around the Earth seven times in the time it takes you to

               snap your fingers.” 

To learn more about these fascinating concepts and how Myofascial Release is related, read my latest Therapeutic Insight article titled “Snap Your Fingers!”

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

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     A Myofascial Release therapist is a very unique individual, one that has extensive and very special training and talents. They are interacting with you from an extensive knowledge base and awareness gleaned from extraordinary personal and professional experiences via Myofascial Release. They have had the courage to feel their own pain and face their own fears. We believe that you can only take your clients as far and as deep as you are willing to go yourself!

     To learn more about what makes a Myofascial Release therapist so uniquely defined, please read Part 2 of the Therapeutic Insight article titled What is a Myofascial Release Therapist.

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

 To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

     If you were going to play chess, but were missing some chess pieces your chances of success would be negated. Agreed? The Myofascial philosophy provides the important information (the missing pieces) that we need to provide the ultimate care for our clients and your ultimate success.

     We have to be cognizant that the anatomy of humans and animals that we learned is inaccurate. Our training was incomplete – missing pieces – due to the fact that the fascial system was either not included in our education or what we were taught was obsolete.

     The Myofascial Release therapist uses their proprioceptive awareness to ascertain where the fascia has lost its fluidity and has solidified; where there is restricted motion within the system; where there is a bio-energetic blockage that is leaking thermals and creating vibrations that are out of synchrony with the whole.

     To gain a better understanding of the importance of Myofascial Release, read the comments from experienced Myofascial Release therapists on my previous blog “Copy Cat” Myofascial Release Courses  and read my latest article What is a Myofascial Release Therapist- Part I. Assessment and treatment of the fascial system is performed through the feel of the anatomy by highly skilled myofascial release therapist’s proprioceptive awareness.

     A myofascial release therapist doesn’t just feel with their hands, they also feel and perceive with their minds!

     Myofascial Release will give you the missing pieces to become a winner, enhancing everything you do personally and professionally!

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

     To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

 Myofascial Release is the “missing link” in massage and bodywork. 

 I have been teaching Myofascial Release seminars for close to 40 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. 

View the comments below to see the passion that other therapists have for Myofascial Release.

Sincerely,

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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

     It has been found that every tubule of the fascia, even down to the tiniest of levels, has a hollow core through which fluid flows.  Information, in the form of light and sound, travels within that fluid in the form of various wave lengths and frequencies.  This is the fundamental communication that basically keeps us alive and functioning properly.

     Myofascial restrictions at this level may have a significant negative impact upon our health and the functioning of our cells and wellbeing. Lynne McTaggart, author of “The Field”, states, “In healthy individuals, the quantum light is highly organized. It may be that all illness is a kind of scrambling of the frequency of this energy. In effect, their light is going out!”

     Myofascial Rebounding (http://www.myofascialrelease.com/fascia_massage/public/seminar_details.asp?ProductID=46)  is an extremely helpful assessment tool and treatment that allows our bodies to decrease pain and restrictions on an impressive scale.  The increased rhythmic vibrations and frequencies transform our scrambled quantum light into resonance, which enables our bodies to release restrictions on a large scale.

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

     To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

     Myofascial Release is the leading edge of a paradigm shift that will be massive in how we view and treat the human body.  The traditional model of reality (a paradigm) has turned out to be incomplete and terribly flawed.  I thought it might be helpful for us to examine a number of myths that we were taught to help us make this transition into a higher level of healthcare and results for our clients.

Myth I

     Traditional science’s erroneous view that the connective tissue is just an insulator was proven wrong back in 1941.  Instead, the fascial system is a three- dimensional liquid crystalline web that conducts information, energy, oxygen, nutrition, biochemicals, hormones and all that is essential for life.

     Our body’s communication system relies on water. A 10-percent change in water content of the soft tissue can trigger a million-fold change in charge transportation along a protein. The speed necessary for information and energy to instantaneously spread throughout the body makes reliance on biochemistry alone insufficient.  The false and obsolete information (that the soft tissue of our body is an insulator), is still being taught in all medical, dental and therapeutic schools in the country.

It’s time for a change!

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

     To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

     Other approaches attempt to release fascia are linear protocols that are rough, mechanical, painful and only provide temporary relief.  Confusing therapeutic protocols with reality has caused many people to erroneously view humans as two dimensional, linear objects.  The map or protocol is not the territory! 

     Our bodies are over 70% fluid. The fascia is the container of and transport medium of the fluid in our body.  The fluidity of the fascial system is also the transport medium for the vibrations of sound and light to flow for cellular communication.  Trauma, surgery, thwarted inflammatory responses and unresolved emotional trauma tend to dehydrate the fluidity of the fascial system blocking the important transmission of light/sound for proper physiological function.

     My Myofascial Release approach is a gentle, sustained three dimensional pressure into myofascial restrictions that provides lasting results.  You may be interested in the following link that explains the unique and effective myofascial release principles that I have developed (Myofascial Release Approach: Part 1).

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

 To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release

     When I was a young boy, I stumbled upon a conversation about a distant aunt. Their voices were in a “hushed” tone. My sense was that they were embarrassed about her behavior. She had experienced a nervous breakdown!

     I never knew what a “nervous breakdown” was, but it sounded very serious. As I have grown as a therapist, I have experienced many situations that have given me a better knowledge of these so called “breakdowns”. Some of the elements expressed by my aunt’s behavior during her “nervous breakdown” sounded similar to the mind/body’s capacity for self correction.

     When pain, fear, and/or stress build to a certain threshold over time, our body begins to shake in an effort to rid itself of the excessive energy that has become trapped. Unexpected tears erupt and our body quivers with powerful emotions. Our society has taught us not to trust or express our emotions. Thus, we attempt to shove them down deeper and deeper. Over time this exhausts us, we don’t sleep well, we become irritated, agitated and easily “triggered” by others and events.

     For centuries, there have been stories about people who started to shake, cry uncontrollably and loudly express themselves. As a result, authorities slapped “straight jackets” on those individuals and threw them into a mental institution for weeks, months or even a lifetime, when Myofascial Release and Myofascial Unwinding could have restored peace and equilibrium to their lives. Today, the “straight jacket” is Valium or some other tranquilizer. How sad. Drugs can be helpful in the short term, but long term usage can numb the mind and make one’s body lifeless. Drugs numb our feelings and inhibit our body’s natural capacity of self correction.

     Another unfortunate example of how traditional therapy vainly attempts to just treat the superficial aspect of a problem, a symptom. Restrictions in the fascial system are the cause of many symptoms that you and our clients suffer with. It is now well known that Myofascial Release contributes to the reduction of pain, headaches, and the symptoms of Fibromyalgia and can also restore our natural, tranquil mental and emotional well being.

Sincerely,

       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 

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QrvlwtBOU

     To find us on Facebook, click on the following link: www.facebook.com/myofascial.release