08/13/2024
Dalton Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques info 🫵🏻💪🏻
PRO-MOVEMENT BODYWORK TECHNIQUES
Our fitness levels naturally decline after our 20s and nosedive once we hit our 70s. Along the way, we’re drying up, growing stiffer, enduring injuries, and spending less time moving around.
“Motion is lotion,” a saying from orthopedics, reminds us that muscle and connective tissue shorten and tighten if we don’t move them through their full range regularly.
In Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques we use several manual methods that lubricate joints and soft tissue by generating warmth in the tissue and rolling fascial sacs across associated structures. Some of these methods restore capsular flexibility, enhance joint play, and encourage pain-free range of motion. Others stimulate muscle spindles to turn on weak muscles and improve their firing patterns.
While their ability to act like “lotion” for joints and muscles makes these techniques useful in any bodywork system, they are uniquely effective for clients who perceive movement as painful and threatening. Many clients avoid activities they love because they fear it will increase their chronic pain. These pro-movement methods seem to reset faulty pain perception, reduce nervous system hyperactivity, and release regions of dysfunction from protective muscle guarding.
Here, I’ll demonstrate five pro-movement methods that clients almost always enjoy. Incorporate these techniques into your bodywork toolbox to lubricate joints and muscles, reduce unnecessary protective guarding, and encourage clients to move.
Click here to read more and view a Myoskeletal shoulder mobilization video: https://mailchi.mp/erikdalton/pro-movement-bodywork-techniques-9635553