MyoSkeletal Balancing
a detailed look

Overview: Skeletal and spinal misalignments are often the result of tight muscles pulling unevenly on your bones. If your Chiropractic adjustments aren’t holding as long as you would like because your tight muscles keep pulling you back out of alignment, MyoSkeletal Balancing can help. MyoSkeletal Balancing is also ideal for helping to relieve back, hip & neck pain, sciatica, knee and other joint pain, fibromyalgia, headaches and even scoliosis.

MyoSkeletal Balancing combines massage with firm-but-gentle traction, compression and stretching techniques which encourage your body to align itself gently and naturally.

MyoSkeletal Balancing is a "cause therapy," which means that it differs from symptomatic treatments that deal only with symptoms. It addresses the cause of disease, rather than merely aiming to mask the symptoms. Theory in point: Since imbalance is the cause of all disease, then restoration of balance must be the universal cure for all illnesses, including pain-conditions.

More Information: According to Masayuki Saionji, author of Hipbone Yumeiho Therapy, “Everyone has displacement in the hipbones, congenital or acquired, slight or serious, with or without symptoms.” and, “...diseases are almost inevitable unless displaced hipbones are restored to normal.” (note: in Eastern thought, chronic pain is included in the definition of “disease”)

Saionji continues by describing different types of hip displacement, which result in different effects on the body. For example, he explains that a person suffering from RIGHT Hipbone Displacement Type "...tends to suffer malfunctions in the liver and stomach, as well as diarrhea. They are also of thin build. Women of this type tend to have genecological disorders." Persons suffering from LEFT Hipbone Displacement Type "...tend to suffer from heart-lung malfunction, obesity, constipation and colds." He also explains that combination types often suffer from S-shaped spines, which further complicate the symptoms of the condition.

My Mission is to fully restore balance between the muscles and the bones, encouraging proper alignment between all related tissues and structures, in each of my clients. I have studied various techniques for many years, and have combined the most effective techniques I have learned, with a few I developed myself, into one dramatic method of treatment. Each client is thoroughly evaluated to determine where their unique imbalances are occuring, and the treatment is customized with the intention of restoring balance: front-to-back and side-to-side. Unlike other forms of bodywork, MyoSkeletal Balancing is not necessarily performed the same way on each side of the body. For example, I may stretch and massage a muscle on one side of the body, and strengthen or shorten the same muscle on the other side, as needed to restore balance.

Positioning devices, such as sacral or cranial props and wedges, as well as other tools like vacuum cups, t-bars and gua sha devices are often used, as well.

My ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life for every person I encounter, and to educate those I can in matters of health, balance and wellbeing.

Research: It is known that imbalance in the body causes stress and weakness, not only in the muscles, but also in the organs and systems. Therefore, it is believed that restoration of balance can trigger the body to heal iteself from seemingly unrelated conditions. The following are additional conditions which may be helped by restoring balance to the body:

Influence: Some of the tools and techniques that helped to inspire MyoSkeletal Balancing include:

 

Article written by: Chena Talkington, www.transformationswellness.net. © 2011. All rights reserved.

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