Re: Trigger Point Release - TOM

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Tom wrote: >>>>Counterstrain and Muscle Energy are the most effective ways to eliminatethe triggers. Diaphragm releases can be ehlpful and so can ischemic releases, doneexternally but can be a bit painful at the start. Tom Tom, when you say Muscle Energy Techniques, do you mean getting properly aligned helps them resolve? Also, would you explain what diaphragm & ischemic releases are? Thanks so much, Chelle

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Chell,

Yes, the Muscle Energy Techniques put the bones back in propper symmetry

and the muscles can then relax. They may need some extra help to go back

to factory settings and that is where the counterstrain and trigger

releases come into play.

There are 5 major anatomic diaphragms in the body. They run through you

from front to back and side to side instead of up and down you like many

of your other major muscles. They are from top to bottom:

1.Sub occipital (just below the skull)

2.Hyoid (right where your adam's apple is)

3.Respiratory /thoracic inlet (top of the lungs where the colar bones are)

4.Respiratory diaphragm (below the ribs whre your diaphragm is)

5.Pelvic floor (pubic to coccyx)

Although they are all interconnected, it is the pelvic floor diaphragm

release that is most useful in treating disorders of the PF for obvious

reasons (am I a geek or what???)LOL

By applying very gentle (less than a pound most of the time) pressure from

one end of the daphragm to the other, you take tension off the muscle and

allow it to " re-set " back to factory settings of tone and tension. ALso

allows increased blood flow.

Triger ischemic releases are when you find a trigger and just push on it

till it hurts and hold it until it reduces. You repeat this for several

minutes until the darn thing gives up and is no longer tender.

>HOpe this helps

Tom (aka geek man)

www.tomocklerpt.com

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> Tom wrote:

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>>>>>Counterstrain and Muscle Energy are the most effective ways to

>>>>> eliminate

> the triggers. Diaphragm releases can be ehlpful and so can ischemic

> releases, done

> externally but can be a bit painful at the start. Tom

>

>

> Tom, when you say Muscle Energy Techniques, do you mean getting properly

> aligned helps them resolve? Also, would you explain what diaphragm &

> ischemic releases are? Thanks so much, Chelle

>