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The origin of your pain
Most people spend the majority of the day standing or sitting down.
We know you don’t get to move much during those busy office days! Performing regular stretching exercises
tackles the cause of your pain. A consistent routine helps ease muscle tension, stretch the connective
tissue, reduce the pressure on your joints, and increases your range of motion
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If you only do repetitive movements, movements that involve one side
of the body, or just don’t move enough, the body‘s muscles and fasciae
become tense and inflexible.
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As tension in the tissue increases, more and more pressure is eventually
placed on the joints.
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This results in chronic painful conditions that can become worse if left
untreated.
Description of the myofascial therapy
Myofascial release therapy is a hands-on technique aimed at relieving tension in the fascial tissues.
This therapy involves applying gentle, sustained pressure to areas of tightness also called Osteopressure (Step1) (pressure on bone surface), known as trigger points, to alleviate pain and restore motion.
The Osteopressure developed by Liebscher & Bracht uses a manual therapeutic technique to press signal pain receptors in the periosteum — the fasciae-containing membrane surrounding the bones.
By doing this, the brain programmes responsible for the pain are reset, and the muscular-fascial tensions normalised.
As a result, the traction between the vertebral bodies and the joint surfaces is reduced as well.
The receptors pick up this information and relay it to the brain, which in turn stops sending pain signals.
The success of this method demonstrates that pain results from the too-high muscular-fascial tensions the brain registers. Said tensions are the consequence of little to no physical exercise and minimal as well as one-sided movement patterns.
Fascia Stretches (Step2)
Stopping the pain is just one step towards a life without pain. It is vital to treat the cause of the pain to ensure that it does not come back. Otherwise, the muscular-fascial tension builds up again, and the pain returns.
To help change the one-sided movement patterns introduced by our modern living environment, Liebscher & Bracht developed special exercises to make sure that muscular-fascial shortenings can be effectively treated.
To alleviate your pain permanently, it is necessary to perform the fascia stretches consistently alongside the osteopressure and beyond it.
Intense Foam Rolling (Step3)
Using specially designed foam rollers, we massage our body and thus the muscles and fasciae underneath. Doing so unravels the many fascial threads, allowing the tissue to become flexible again.
Our foam rolling method is supposed to relax the tissue and prepare it for the fascia stretching exercises. We pursue two goals with it. On the one hand, we want to move the interstitial fluid to ensure that waste material can be transported out of the fasciae tissue and fresh fluids into it. On the other hand, we aim at encouraging the fibroblasts, that are weaving new fasciae 24 hours a day, to recycle matted fasciae threads. This way, we accomplish the removal of tangled fascial tissue— the central issue of shortened and inflexible fasciae. A welcome side effect of foam rolling is the relaxation of tense muscles.
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