Overview Of Myofascial Release

by Jill Hunter Podiatry Paediatrics

Myofascial release usually puts focus on reducing the pain by lessening the tension as well as tightness in trigger points. Understanding which trigger point is actually responsible for pain is not easy to comprehend. Localising the pain to certain myofascial trigger point is quite a difficult affair. It’s for this reason that the therapeutic method is mainly used on a larger area of tissue and muscle rather than in single points.

In Perth most of the treatments of myofascial release occur during massage therapy sessions, which is popular as myofascial therapy. The therapist gently massages myofascia & feels for tightnesed or stiff regions. The professional starts massaging as well as stretching the regions, which feel rigid using very light pressure with hand. He or she then helps tissue as well as supportive sheath to release pressure & tightness. The method is repeated several times on same myofascial trigger point & on the other myofascial trigger points until the health professional feels that the tension has been completely released.