So let me assume you’ve taken a seminar or two in Myofascial Release. You’ve gotten “the touch” of what a release feels like. You’ve learned a course book full of techniques. Now what to do with it?
You may have been led to believe that taking more and more seminars is the only way to become proficient. I disagree. Take the tools you’ve been taught and spend hours and hours trying it all out. Until you’ve used myofascial release on hundreds of patients, you’ll never pick it up in a seminar.
Moving from evaluation to treatment takes time, but be patient. Gather your data; note postural deviations, evaluate pelvic alignment, and spend lots of time palpating tissue quality. As you move through the body, note the responses from your patient that your palpation creates. Begin to connect the dots; does the abnormal tissue density or tightness that you’ve felt match your patient’s responses? This is often the place to begin.
The evaluation and treatment process of Myofascial Release encourages not falling into protocols. Everyone is unique, as are their issues with pain. But over time you will begin to see patterns that carry over from one patient to another.
Learning the patients with lumbar pain and tightness often have deeper tightness in the hip flexors makes treatment decisions easy to follow though from evaluation. But learning that using an internal rotation/distraction technique on the legs can reduce the spiral pattern of tightness from the leg to the hip to the back takes time and practice. This awareness will come with time.
What helped you put it all together?
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