Fascial Manipulation
What is Fascial Manipulation?
Fascial manipulation is a cutting edge form of manual therapy which identifies abnormal adhesions, or “densifications”, within perimuscular connective tissues known as “fascia”. These densifications can significantly reduce your ability to generate force and power with your muscles and tendons, hampering performance and leading to recurrent pain or injury. By eliminating these adhesions through fascial manipulation, the force transmission within the neuromusculoskeletal system returns to normal and pain resolves.
Pioneered by Italian physiotherapist Luigi Stecco and substantiated through groundbreaking anatomical research by his daughter, Carla Stecco, M.D. and his son, Antonio Stecco, M.D., fascial manipulation is an entire system of treatment which has just recently been introduced in the United States. Results can be rapid, and not infrequently, amazing.
How does it work?
Muscle action is not merely along origin and insertion lines. Instead, muscles and fascia form continuous lines from head to toe allowing efficient tension and mobility for shock absorption and force generation to support the entire neuromusculoskeletal system during activity. Densifications causing myofascial stiffness can lead to improper movement patterns causing excessive tissue strain and overload of joint structures. By applying friction to the densification, it produces local heat, modifies the ground substance, and local inflammation initiates and accelerates remodeling process with reorganization of proteic fibers. This restores gliding along fascial layers and normal activation of myofascial lines of tension to restore balance within the neuromusculoskeletal system.
What to expect.
First, a thorough evaluation is performed to develop a hypothesis of dysfunction. Afterwards, the therapist identifies specific densifications in the fascia and the order in which the desifications should be treated. Pressure is applied through either the knuckle or the elbow to the specific densification causing a friction in the tissue. Doing this causes an inflammatory reaction; thus the client can expect to be sore for a few days over the treated spots. The client will often experience an immediate reduction in a painful movement or significant increase in range of motion, maybe both.
Benefits of Fascial Manipulation
Fascial manipulation can help relieve back and neck pain, headaches, iliotibial band syndrome, plantar fascitis, shoulder pain, knee pain, and many other musculoskeletal conditions. Regardless of the cause of these painful ailments, complete and lasting relief is hastened through the use of fascial manipulation.
Fascial manipulation is a cutting edge form of manual therapy which identifies abnormal adhesions, or “densifications”, within perimuscular connective tissues known as “fascia”. These densifications can significantly reduce your ability to generate force and power with your muscles and tendons, hampering performance and leading to recurrent pain or injury. By eliminating these adhesions through fascial manipulation, the force transmission within the neuromusculoskeletal system returns to normal and pain resolves.
Pioneered by Italian physiotherapist Luigi Stecco and substantiated through groundbreaking anatomical research by his daughter, Carla Stecco, M.D. and his son, Antonio Stecco, M.D., fascial manipulation is an entire system of treatment which has just recently been introduced in the United States. Results can be rapid, and not infrequently, amazing.
How does it work?
Muscle action is not merely along origin and insertion lines. Instead, muscles and fascia form continuous lines from head to toe allowing efficient tension and mobility for shock absorption and force generation to support the entire neuromusculoskeletal system during activity. Densifications causing myofascial stiffness can lead to improper movement patterns causing excessive tissue strain and overload of joint structures. By applying friction to the densification, it produces local heat, modifies the ground substance, and local inflammation initiates and accelerates remodeling process with reorganization of proteic fibers. This restores gliding along fascial layers and normal activation of myofascial lines of tension to restore balance within the neuromusculoskeletal system.
What to expect.
First, a thorough evaluation is performed to develop a hypothesis of dysfunction. Afterwards, the therapist identifies specific densifications in the fascia and the order in which the desifications should be treated. Pressure is applied through either the knuckle or the elbow to the specific densification causing a friction in the tissue. Doing this causes an inflammatory reaction; thus the client can expect to be sore for a few days over the treated spots. The client will often experience an immediate reduction in a painful movement or significant increase in range of motion, maybe both.
Benefits of Fascial Manipulation
Fascial manipulation can help relieve back and neck pain, headaches, iliotibial band syndrome, plantar fascitis, shoulder pain, knee pain, and many other musculoskeletal conditions. Regardless of the cause of these painful ailments, complete and lasting relief is hastened through the use of fascial manipulation.
