07/29/2025
We’re honored to share this thoughtful conversation with Dr. Miho Urisaka, PT, DPT, OCS, on how Fascial Counterstrain supports recovery and performance—particularly in dancers and movement professionals.
Drawing from real clinical cases, Dr. Urisaka discusses how addressing deep tissue restrictions can restore mobility, reduce pain, and uncover issues that standard imaging may miss. A valuable listen for anyone navigating chronic tension, injury recovery, or performance demands.
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ダンサーや身体を使う専門職に向けた回復とパフォーマンスのためのアプローチについて、当院の瓜阪美穂先生（PT, DPT, OCS）をゲストに迎えたポッドキャストをご紹介します。
筋膜の深層へのアプローチが、動きの質を高め、痛みを軽減し、画像検査では見えない問題を明らかにする可能性について、実際の臨床例を交えながらお話しされています。
慢性的な緊張や怪我からの回復、パフォーマンスの向上を目指す方にとって、きっと学びのある内容です。
🎧 上のリンクからご視聴いただけます。
Dr. Miho Urisaka is a physical therapist living in New York who has been practicing Counterstrain since 2014, with a special focus on dancers. In this conversation, she shares how she employs Fascial Counterstrain not only to resolve injuries but also to enhance performance and prevent future issues for professional dancers. Drawing on her clinical experience, Dr. Urisaka highlights case studies of dancers recovering from knee injuries and concussions, emphasizing how the body self-protects—often through restriction and pain—and explains why addressing root causes, rather than just downstream symptoms, is essential, especially for highly trained movers.
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She discusses how treating the bones and periosteum is a unique aspect of Counterstrain that benefits professional athletes, particularly dancers. People whose careers require precise attunement to and mastery of their bodies—like dancers—often arrive with fewer compensatory patterns and heightened self-awareness, making them especially responsive to this form of treatment. Dr. Urisaka also underscores the limitations of conventional imaging in detecting interstitial inflammation and the importance of working directly with the body’s mechanics to uncover hidden, yet very real, dysfunctions.
She explains how Counterstrain can improve not only range of motion but, more importantly, quality of motion, and how optimizing tissue mobility can lead to noticeable strength gains and flexibility within just a few weeks—once tissues are given the reset they need to drain inflammation, release guarding, and restore function.
Whether you're a dancer, athlete, or someone living with chronic pain or reduced mobility, this episode offers a compelling look at how Fascial Counterstrain can be a game-changing tool for recovery, prevention, and performance enhancement.
