Skull/neck/ache / all body tension pain fascia release!

Interesting Astroman - I never thought about skull muscles...

Here is the foot "Rubz" ball I use for upper back/shoulders. Its a little bigger than a golf ball, medium hard rubber. It will get into what a bigger tennis ball or harder LaCross ball wont.

www.massagewarehouse.com/products/foot-rubz-foot-massager/

astroman- I am glad that you made a breakthrough by discovering the truth of fascia and the benefits of releasing the fascia.... in your case of the head and neck.

You can go even further and benefit even more by applying the same principle to that of the whole body. The fascia is a layer of tissue that goes throughout the entire body. According to Dr. J., energy flow can be impeded by strictures in the fascia. The Hansa Center uses a "percussor" to "release" such strictures. Restoration of energy flow and pain elimination may result from such a treatment.

Astroman, I am glad to see that you have taken things into your own hands. Anyone that is in the process of selecting an LL physician might want to consider this type of expertise as part of the treatment skillset that they are looking for. In my opinion, this is an indispensable skill that few LL practitioners possess, but should!

Don

astroman

I have no doubt that you have been helping yourself with your myofascial release. However a professionally trained person that routinely performs it with a variety of professional tools would be even more effective. How in the world can you effectively do the back of your body?

I think that a percusser is an electronic tool that acts as both a jackhammer and a vibrator. It allows the user to direct kinetic energy in a focused manner to a local target. It allows the user to shape the effect that is desired. Here is a link to an article that describes the percusser:

www.kytbinc.com/pages/percussion.html

In the final analysis, I agree that cost is a powerful consideration!


Don

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Heathersdad

per link "The percussor has a variable frequency setting and usually is used at the same frequency of middle “C” on the piano, which is the same frequency of our fascia. "..............interesting how frequency is so often used in different forms of healing thanks.

Cost is what drives me to learn..........many things, not just health related stuff. Many of these body workers are $100 to 250 per hour, and is not insurance covered. Ive seen many types of body workers, chiros that do some of this too. They usually specialize in a certain techniques, not a wide variety, so I was bouncing around between many, and I decided to learn some various forms of this myself (or go broke). I will say from experience that when someone is tight all over, this even overwhelms the "body professionals" that can supposedly treat this.

"How in the world can you effectively do the back of your body?" With some cleverness and the right density and size of myo release objects and small sports balls, GRAVITY can be your friend.

For ones back: you lay on your back, over minimally thin padding. Quite often you need to release the greater fascia with a larger softer ball of minimum PSI, then the smaller tighter areas become apparent, which are released with greater pressure of a smaller denser ball like the Rubz link I provided earlier.

Throughout the years I have figured out how to somewhat release different parts of the whole body on my own. With a collection of pressure "tools" (objects) for this, one can do amazing things with different relaxed positions using gravity, leaning, walls, and furniture. This has taken tremendous amounts of time, but time spent at home is my free time.

I do still go to the professionals once in a while, then I try to carry on where they left off. They have been very helpfull, especially the ones who explain what their doing.

The fascia layers are very much like an onion- over your whole body. As each layer of the WHOLE body is released, the tightness decreases. But you can have tension build up, what I call a "fault line" in adjacent areas, if some areas are not released.

In really tight people, you are kind of moving the tension around untill the whole layer (or most of it) is released. I worked on my back for weeks prior to my neck and head feeling tight, (you feel the tightest areas). Now today my back head and neck feel great, but I now feel more tightness in my forearms and tricepts, so I released them using my leaning weight with the Rubs ball between these arm areas and the molding of a sturdy interior door frame/jam. I will need to repeat this often in the next week.

Like anything, the longer youve had this condition, the longer it takes to correct.

......."related to having Lyme?"

Wish there was more written on lyme muscle pain. I believe lyme can make it worse from the messed up ATP it creates, and possibly from the lyme nerve involvement. Plus any past injuries are affected by lime it seems. That said, bodies can get in "stuck" mode even after they should heal. Acid reflux is a prime example of the body getting stuck in a bad cycle, that must be broken to heal.

Anyone can get this but most people (non-limies) with this loosen up way easier - per the professionals I've seen for this (many).

All of the "body workers" that have worked on my tight muscles commented that I was one one the tighter ones they've seen. Before ABX this did not help me as much. One year after ABX my body is finally improving more from this. Layer after layer.............

The peeling onion term was explained to me and makes sense. Releasing one area, might (usually) revile tightness in an adjacent area that was not so obvious before. This happens with me a lot. After an area is loosened, I try light strengthening on that area- I start slow so I dont go backwards.

Plus there is also refered pain with myofascial tightness. A tight area may reviel pain far away, so its tricky.

Your chiro is being honest with you! Chiro adjustments will not last as long with tight fascia and/ or muscles - these will be pulling on the joint adjustments just made. More and more chiros have been getting into muscle release though - but they dont usually have the time to do it (short appts).

Muscle pain and tightness have been my number one complaint with lyme, and that really seems to throw doctors off. They all say nerve issues, brain fog, etc. (which I also have) are the main symptoms of lyme- never pain. It's frustrating and makes me doubt myself sometimes. I do have an old injury- a tear in my trapezius muscle from about 15 years ago in yoga class that seems to almost always house the majority of my muscle pain, but I still have pain that moves around all over my back, neck, shoulders, and base of my skull. It's awful.

So far, all that has worked has been cupping by my acupuncturist and massages. Unfortunately, when I don't keep up with them regularly, the pain is right back.

Thanks, Astroman!!!