Uprising Physical Therapy & Myofascial Release Center

03/21/2020

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03/21/2020

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03/20/2020

According to Dr. Matos, an expert in biologic surety and the management of select agent programs at federal facilities:
“Physical therapists are essential in flattening the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic. They play a key role in keeping people they can help out of the doctor offices and ER’s. This will not only free up the medical teams to treat those impacted by COVID-19, but also limit the exposure of those seeking the care of the physical therapist”.

Dr. Matos is a member of an advisory group in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense. Dr. Matos has experience working with the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, and the CDC. He has served as a public health emergency officer for 14 Department of Defense installations and has participated in multiple disease and epidemiologic investigations. Dr. Matos has received extensive training in risk communication in a public health emergency and in exposure investigations."

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA-Guidance-on-Essential-Critical-Infrastructure-Workers-1-20-508c.pdf

03/20/2020

This is valuable information and may help someone in respiratory distress, which may be a symptom of COVID-19.

07/11/2019

The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach: What's the difference?

Structural release involves applying gentle, sustained pressure into areas of tightness, restriction, or pain and waiting for your body to release. Never forceful, pressures are applied to gently reach the barrier of the tissue restriction. At first, the therapist feels an elastic or springy give and this is 'fools gold'. It feels like a release. It feels like a bit of a change. However, the tissue will just spring back once the pressure is disengaged. Why? This 'fools gold' is the elastic component of the tissue giving way. The only way to experience a lasting change in the tissue is to wait. Additional time spent holding the pressure (beyond 5 minutes for each restriction!) enables your connective tissue to fully 'melt' and lengthen. Science is telling us that there is yet another benefit to waiting long enough to allow for a phase change in the tissue. Beyond 5 minutes, your body will begin producing interleukin, which is a natural anti-inflammatory! This response is only elicited when pressure is sustained and uninterrupted - no rubbing, poking, manipulating!
It is critical to note that structural myofascial release can only be performed on dry skin. Using oils or creams during treatment means the therapist is sliding on your skin and therefore unable to properly sustain pressures that release and melt restrictions.

Manipulation, mobilization, muscle energy techniques and exercise are 'in and out' of the system too quickly. All forms of massage are gliding over or trying to force through the soft tissue and don't stop at the barriers. Hence only 20% of the Fascial System is affected, producing merely short term results.

Sustained pressure of 90 to 120 seconds is needed to begin to engage the collagenous barrier. The other techniques, approaches, etc. that were mentioned earlier do not hold pressure anywhere close to this time. It then takes another 3 to 5 minutes for an in depth release to occur for more permanent results. After around 5 minutes we begin to observe a number of unique phenomenon that are absolutely essential for lasting results. This is because Myofascial Release profoundly reaches the other 80% of the tissue that is not effected by other forms of therapy. Therefore, Myofascial Release influences 100% of the cause and effect relationship.

Piezoelectricity, Mechanotransduction, Phase Transition and eventually Resonance begins to occur. No other approaches address or elicit these phenomenon, as I said, too quick! This is why The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach is so successful.

PIEZOELECTRICITY
Piezoelectricity is a Greek work which means pressure electricity. It is a well-known fact that each of our cells are crystalline in nature. When you place pressure into a crystal it creates an electrical flow. The sustained pressure of The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach coupled with the time element, 5 minutes or longer per restriction creates bioelectrical flow in our body which leads to mechanotransduction.

MECHANOTRANSDUCTION
Mechanotransduction: sustained mechanical pressure can also create biochemical changes within our bodies. Importantly, Myofascial Release produces interleukin-8, our bodies own natural anti-inflammatory agent.
Research has shown that inflammation is an important part of the healing process. However, when inflammation has been thwarted it tends to solidify the ground substance of the fascial system which should be fluid. This then blocks healing and over time tends to continue to solidify into crushing restrictions that produce the symptoms that many of people experience. Returning to cause, it is not enough to just treat the effect of symptoms.

PHASE TRANSITION
These two occurrences, piezoelectricity and mechanotransduction dove tail together and then Phase Transition takes place. This is the same phenomena of ice transforming into water. In our bodies a similar occurrence happens. Through MFR the solidification of the ground substance becomes more fluid allowing the tissue to rehydrate and to glide taking crushing pressure off pain sensitive structures.

RESONANCE
When one human touches another human their vibratory rates are quite different on the molecular level, however with sustained pressure at the fascial restriction, the vibratory rates will become identical creating resonance. Resonance is the very essence of The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach. This is a "Release". Release occurs in the cranial area and though out the entire body.
Resonance unfortunately does not occur in other forms of therapy due to the sheer fact that these other forms or therapy are too quick, hence providing only temporary results. Myofascial Release coupled with the various forms of therapy, massage, bodywork and energy techniques enhances effectiveness.

The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach is truly the 'missing link' that will help reduce pain and increase motion to help people return to a pain free and active lifestyle!

*Taken from The John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach brochure

04/25/2019

I am not familiar with Skillshare but this videos does a nice job of describing some basics about the importance of fascia.

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01/23/2019

Please check out Uprising Physical Therapy's new website:

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I want to say thank you to Jake Kurtz for developing my website. He did a great job making it look professional on both desktop and smartphones.

Jake is originally from the Blackhawk area but now lives in Tampa, Florida running a marketing business. He helps small businesses with website development and social media. If you ever need somebody I highly recommend him.

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08/22/2018

This new documentary explores the first "atlas" of fascial tissue and the first exploratory video footage of this complex organ.

04/03/2018

Full Quote from Myofascial Release pioneer John F. Barnes to SmartHer News:“It is refreshing to see science is finally catching up to what I’ve been teaching in my Myofascial Release seminars for the last 40 years. The fascial system is one of the most important structures of our body and is significantly tightened from physical or emotional trauma which produces crushing pressure on pain sensitive structures. It produces symptoms of pain, headaches, fibromyalgia and a myriad of women’s pain and health problems.The fascinating fascia is a liquid crystal three dimensional web. In the space of the web, which is actually not space, but a fluid/viscous substance called the ground substance of the fascia which tends to solidify due to trauma and is the main transport medium of our body. This means that whatever nutrition we ingest, the fluid we drink, the air we breathe, all the biochemistry hormones and information/energy that every one of the trillion of cells needs to thrive must go through the fluidity of the fascia.”“I would highly recommend purchasing Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau’s book, Architecture of Human Living Fascia. He is a French hand surgeon and he represents over 20 years of research on the fascial system. If you go to page 163, I have provided a more detailed explanation of the fascial system and Myofascial Release.”-John F. Barnes