Daily Maestroism

DM #372

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

DM #372: It takes 2000 lbs of force to deform the toughest fascia in your body. It takes far less to improve fascial glide at fascial interfaces. Similarly, your nervous system can sense when a spider web touches your skin (tell me that you don't immediately turn into a ninja ??). Combine these two concepts and perhaps we can take a step back and realize that we need not treat our bodies like a piece of dead meat that requires tenderizing. ?
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Clearly I'm not about that super aggressive manual treatment life, mainly because I champion the nervous system. Don't get me wrong, manual therapy and the mechanical effects it has (primarily improving fascial glide) definitely have a place within treatment, but I think that if we took the time to ask ourselves if what we think we're doing was actually occurring at the level of the tissues, perhaps we'd change things up a bit. You're likely not actually breaking anything apart, especially if it's been there for a long time, so why keep abusing those tissues?
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To me, a better option than trying to smash things to death is using manual treatment to help coax the nervous system into allowing you to move better, and thus able to place more force through your own tissues volitionally, promoting true remodeling, inherent stability, and a decrease in tone. Let's face it, you can put a whole lot more force through your tendons with active loading than I can with any sort of tool, so perhaps if we're looking for “more”, then that's a better option.
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Am I saying to throw out your foam rollers and massage balls? Absolutely not. Do I think that a body that constantly asks to be aggressively smashed perhaps needs some sympathetic down-regulation and a bit of a different approach? Yeah…yeah I definitely think that. Just a little food for thought. Make of it what you will.
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