Daily Maestroism

DM #401

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

DM #401: If I punch you in the face and you get a bruise, you know that something bad happened. Yet, if I take a tool to that area and scrape it so hard on your skin that you bruise…suddenly it's therapeutic? ? That doesn't make sense.
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Now, for many of you reading this I know I'm preaching to the choir. You've already moved away from that overly aggressive mechanical model that basically promotes “scrape it til they die.” But, for those of you who aren't quite on board with this yet, I'm not here to chastise you, just offer up a different view point.
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The nervous system is hugely sensitive, and as such, when we're looking to get a change in tissue tone, we needn't crush it to see a difference. Yes, there are absolutely mechanical effects to using a tool, but this is primarily an increase in fascial glide, not necessarily truly “breaking apart” loads of adhesions, especially in mature tissue.
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Yes, if you use a tool over an area with decreases facial glide and some concurrent circulatory stasis, it will get red much faster than other areas. That is by NO means an indication or invitation to press and scrape harder. It's the tissues way of saying that something is going on there and it could use some attention…not punishment.
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For those who say “but as you keep scraping those areas eventually stop getting Red”, I respond: you can get that area to stop lighting up with far less aggressive treatment than you think. I PROMISE. Bruising is not better. Better is better.
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