 Deep tissue massage techniques are intended for more specific work for long-lasting therapeutic results. By working with a specific muscle, or muscle group, the practitioner will be able to access deeper layers of the soft-tissue which include skin, fascia, muscles, tendons and ligaments. When this slow-paced, firm-pressured massage is applied with the intention to release the constricted soft-tissue, you'll experience an increase in range-of-motion, a decrease in pain and will help your body move into it's natural resting, and pain-free, position.
Despite popular belief an effective Deep tissue massage needn't be painful. By working relative to your intended goals and comfort level, and by moving with the natural rhythm of your body, your bodies soft-tissue will gently rebound and release with relative ease.
It's with this gentle rebound and release effect which will help end the pain-spasm-pain cycle which your body is holding onto. Deep tissue massage is most beneficial when preceded with a comprehensive full-body assessment with the inclusion of specific Myofascial Release techniques to the intended areas of work as well.
Myofascial Release:
Myofascial release refers to the intentional bodywork technique for stretching, softening and releasing the subsequent deeper layers of fascia. Fascia is an interconnected, three-dimensional web of tissue that extends from head to toe, from front to back, from interior to exterior. It is responsible for maintaining structural integrity; for providing support and protection; and also acts as a shock absorber. Deep fascia can, and will, contract with it's response to sensory input and does so in order to protect your body from a perceived stress.
Due to its elastic property, fascia is a highly adaptable tissue as well. Superficial fascia can stretch to accommodate the deposition of adipose that accompanies a change in the dynamics of your bodies soft-tissue, most commonly seen with changes in body weight. By monitoring changes in muscular tension, joint position, range-of-motion and a host of other physiological responses, specific receptors found in the deep fascia are capable of initiating soft-tissue release.
Since fascia is a three-dimensional web which connects the entirety of your bodies soft-tissue, and since it is fully capable of contracting and restricting every level of soft-tissue, myofasical release delivers it's best results when releasing contstrictions between fascia, adhesions and muscles.
Myofasical release will increase your bodies range-of-motion, eliminate pain and helps maintain your bodies natural alignment - thus eliminating the pain producing movements and postures which created the pain in the first place.
The application of Myofascial Release techniques is applied with no lubricant and generally applies traction, shear or cross-sheared compression and extended periods of passive stretching techniques throughout.
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