welcome to therapeutic stretching
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Slideshow of Microsoft Power Point on Therapeutic stretching. Covering the basics of stretching and its techniques incorporation into a typical Massage Session, passively or actively.TRANSCRIPT
THERAPEUTICSTRETCHING
WELCOME TO
Workshops should not just be about teaching techniques. They should be about practicing them too.
A single workshop will not make you better unless it causes you to practice key skills multiple times or learn to practice and be able to begin a year-long cycle of practice.
Before we begin…
Disclaimer time!!!!
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, HOW, TO WHAT EXTENT.
What’s in store for workshop…
Define key terms Discuss What is Stretching? Discuss some of the many stretching
disciplines. Discuss Goals, benefits,
contraindications of Stretching. BODYWORK, BODYWORK, AND
BODYWORK
QUICK QUESTION.
WHAT ARE THE 4 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF SKELETAL MUSCLES?
1. EXCITABILITY2. CONTRACTILITY3. EXTENSIBILITY4. ELASTICITY
Muscles that are repeatedly tightened will lose their elasticity and stiffen over time thus creating a chain reaction leading to muscular dysfunction.
Tightened muscles Ischemia Hypoxia Metabolic waste buildup Loss of elasticity and pliability Restricted ROM
and so forth and so forth
STRETCHING…
Defined as a method or discipline of bodywork
which lengthens and/or elongates the body’s soft tissue.
EVERYTHING DONE TO THE BODY’S SOFT TISSUE INCLUDING
PALPATION STRETCHES IT
Terms…
FLEXIBILTY
ROM
PROPRIOCEPTORS
STRETCH REFLEX
END FEEL
MECHANORECEPTORS
INHIBITED
HYPERTONICITY
STRAIN/SPRAIN
RECIPROCAL INHIBITION
DYSFUNCTIONS OF SOFT TISSUE
ARCH ENEMIES!!
SCAR TISSUE INFLAMMATION
BENEFITS OF STRETCHING…
ELONGATION OF SOFT TISSUE(S)STIMULATION OF CIRCULATION AND LYMPH FLOWAIDS IN MUSCULAR BALANCE AROUND A JOINTAIDS IN ALLOWING BODY TO REPAIR ITSELFRESETS MUSCLE SPINDLESREALIGNS SCAR TISSUERELEASES RESTRICTED FASCIA
STRETCHING TECHNIQUES…
THERE ARE MANY BUT THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME IDEA OR CONCEPT AND THAT IS THE
ELONGATION OF THE MUCSLES AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE.
TYPES OF STRETCHINGSTATIC
PASSIVE
MFR
MET
ART
DYNAMIC
PNF
STR
AIS
EGOSCUE
MF UNWINDING
FOAM ROLLING
PASSIVE STRETCHING…
PERFORMED MAINLY DURING A MASSAGE SESSION…
ACTIVATES GTO- (Muscle Relaxation)RELEASES PRESSURE AROUND JOINTRESTORES ELASTICITY OF SOFT TISSUESTIMULATION OF CIRCULATION (30%)
PURPOSE OF STRETCHING
To increase the resting length of a muscle.
It is the secret to muscular tone, regeneration, recovery, and performance.
One purpose of stretching is the gaining and maintaining of ROM.
Aids in muscle maintenance of healthy muscles.
Including stretching at the end of a session elongates muscles fibers aiding in the reduction of SPASMS, TP’S, AND HYEPERTONAL MUSCLES
Increase of circulation and lymphatic flow
ONE REASON STRETCHING IS IMPORTANT…
As we age…our lymph, fascia, and connective tissue thickens.
Our body exchanges flexibility for stability.
*TO ACHIEVE OPTIMAL FLEXIBILITY MUSCLES MUST BE DREDGED OF ALL METABOLIC WASTE. FRESH BLOOD MUST ENTER AFTER THIS AND ONLY THEN WILL THE MUSCLES FIBERS ELONGATE.
DYSFUNCTIONAL MUSCLES…
WHEN OVERWORKED MUSCLES ARE KEPT IN A CONSTANT STATE OF CONTRACTION, THEY SHORTEN: LACTIC ACID BUILDS, ISCHEMIA, INFLAMMATION . WHICH LEADS TO…
WEAKENED MUSCLES SLOWER MUSCULAR PERFORMANCE DECREASED ROM INCREASE IN INJURIES
DYSFUNCTIONAL MUSCLES…
IF MUSCLES ARE NOT IN SYNCH AND ALIGNED PROPERLY YOU WILL GET…
TORQUES, SHEERSTILTS, FLAIRS, AND…
ROTATIONS
MYOTATIC STRETCH REFLEX
PART OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, THIS STRETCH REFLEX PREVENTS A MUSCLE FROM STRETCHING TOO FAR TOO FAST AND PROTECTS THE JOINT FROM INJURY.
PROPRIOCEPTORS: GOLGI TENDON ORGANS, SPINDLE
CELLS. MECHANORECEPTORS: PANCINI CORPUSCLES, RUFFINI CORPUSCLES, MERKEL’S DISCS, AND MEISSNER’S CORPUSCLES
STRETCHING AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
THE KEY GOAL OF STRETCHING IS TO ACTIVATE THE GTO WITHOUT FIRING OFF THE SPINDLE CELLS!!
WHEN NOT TO STRETCH…
AFTER A FRACTURE DURING HIGH FEVER
WHEN JOINT IS INFLAMED WHEN OPEN SORES OR STITCHES
ON THE SKIN COVER THE MUSCLE.
PRINCIPLES OF STRETCHING…
AVOID PAINSTRETCH SLOWLY
STRETCH CORRECT MUSCLEWORK WITHIN COMFORT LEVEL