subject: The New Pro-tec Roller Massager With Trigger Point Release Grips [print this page] Ideal to help reduce muscle tightness and pain
Rounded grip end to provide precision trigger point release
Price $44.95
Available from www.badbacks.com.au
The Roller Massager stretches muscles and tendons, breaks down soft tissue adhesion, and soothes tight fascia while increasing blood flow and circulation to the soft tissues. Deep tissue stimulation and massage maximizes muscle performance and flexibility!
The raised Vynafoam sections sink into soft tissue to roll out tightness and the rounded grip ends provide precision trigger point release to loosen knots in the muscle.
How It Works:
By rolling the Roller Massager along the area of tightness, you can perform a self-massage or Myofascial release. Myofascial release has been shown to relieve various muscle and joint pains such as IT band syndrome and shin splints as well as improving flexibility and range of motion.
The product measures 56cm long.
All About Trigger Point and Myofascial Release
1. Why is Trigger Point Therapy Necessary?
Such treatment helps eliminate pain and to re-educate the muscles into pain-free habits. After several treatments, the swelling and stiffness of neuromuscular pain is reduced, range of motion is increased, tension is relieved, and circulation, flexibility and coordination are improved.
Trigger Point:
A sensitive area of the body that when stimulated gives rise to a reaction elsewhere in the body
Areas of tenderness in a muscle
A specific point on the body at which touch or pressure will elicit pain.
Also referred to as muscle knots
Trigger Point Therapy Release:
A bodywork technique that involves applying pressure to tender muscle tissue in order to relieve pain in other parts of the body.
Also called Myofascial trigger point therapy
2. What is The Fascia?
The fascia is a seamless web of connective tissue that covers and connects the muscles, organs, and skeletal structures, located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone. Muscle and fascia form the myofascia system.
When muscle fibers are injured, the fibers and the fascia which surrounds it become short and tight. This uneven stress can be transmitted through the fascia to other parts of the body, causing pain and a variety of other symptoms in areas you often wouldn't expect.
Myofascial Release:
A form of soft tissue therapy intended for pain relief, increasing range of motion and balancing the body.
Techniques include manual massage for stretching the fascia and releasing bonds between fascia, muscles, and bones. The fascia is manipulated to allow the connective tissue fibers to reorganize themselves in a more flexible, functional fashion.
The goal of Myofascial release is to release fascia restriction and restore its tissue health.
Myofascial Release technique:
Find the area of tightness.
Apply a light stretch to the tight area.
Wait for the tissue to relax and then increases the stretch.
