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Most hands-on therapists today agree that no therapeutic approach to pain is complete unless body posture is generally improved. Whatever the root of a persons discomfort, special attention must be dedicated to posture-especially the balancing of the pelvis . At Jersey Shore Myofascial Release Center each initial consultation and evaluation includes a postural analysis to help us assist in determining the contributing factors to a clients pain. |
With an efficient ten-minute hands-on evaluation we can quickly identify gross body asymmetries, such as pelvic tilts, short legs, sacroiliac dysfunctions, scoliosis, facet restrictions, forward head and joint capsule adhesion. Combining a hands-on and visual assessment allows us to immediately tell which muscles are tight and pulling unevenly on the body’s bony framework, and which weak muscles are permitting the asymmetry. Muscle-imbalance and fascial restrictions explain how faulty postural patterns, such as slumped shoulders, forward heads, swaybacks and dowager’s hump can lead to and also increase pain within the body.
Ultimately, for long-lasting relief of chronic pain, Myofascial Release works to:
- balance the head on the neck
- balance the neck on the shoulders
- balance the shoulder girdle on the rib cage
- balance the pelvis on the femurs
- restore overall body function
- restoring pain-free movement
Recent studies have confirmed a noticeable reduction in noxious neural input entering the spinal cord and brain when the postural goals listed above are met. In 1979, biomechanical researcher J. Gordon Zink, D.O., coined the term “common compensatory patterns” to describe routinely found postural patterns in the neuromyofascial-skeletal system. His studies were the first to validate how structure and function play a dual role in posturally initiated pain syndromes. Eventually, he concluded that postural muscle stress leads to chronic, recurrent central nervous system irritation. This is why it is so important to relieve fascial restrictions to restore proper muscle balance and restore proper posture.
Postural muscles are structurally designed to resist fatigue and function in the presence of prolonged gravitational exposure. If their capacity to resist stress is lost due to stress, surgery, illness and fascial restrictions, the postural muscles become irritable, tight and shortened. Fortunately, as balance and function are re-established in distorted myofascial structures, hyperactivity in agitated joint and muscle receptors rapidly dissipates and pain is alleviated.
Call Jersey Shore Myofascial Release Center at 732 223-9335 for more information on how we can help you restore proper posture and rid your body of pain.
