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1 Myofascial Release Session at Wild Grace Wellness Center

Website:http://www.wildgracewellness.com/

Wild Grace Wellness Center

Wild Grace Wellness Center is proud to be the only integral health and wellness center in Maine with an indoor, warm-water therapy pool. Wild Grace aspires to transcend and include the best in physical and aquatic therapy, massage, fitness and spiritual growth. Wild Grace offers a rich menu of health services including: Myofascial Release Therapy, Women's Health, Aquatic and Physical Therapy , WATSU™ (warm water stretching and massage), acupuncture, fitness and stretch classes, and educational and spiritual workshops. See our services tab for more detailed information.

Many of the physical and aquatic therapy services we offer, including Watsu™ and JFB Myofascial Release Therapy, may be covered by your medical insurance provided they are medically necessary and prescribed by your physician. We accept Medicare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Martin's Point, ChampVA, Aetna and Cigna at this time.

Wild Grace is located in Mid-Coast Maine in a new, environmentally-friendly building with an indoor, heated, salt-water therapy pool, luxurious treatment rooms, an outdoor hot tub and a yoga/movement studio and workshop/meeting space. Wild Grace is handicapped accessible with ample on-site parking.

Wild Grace is nestled into the birch and pine-filled woods of Dresden, ME, a quaint town known for its organic gardens, elderberries, eagles and juicy strawberries. Just one visit to Wild Grace and you will see and feel the positive energy of her architecture and resonate with the quiet beauty of her harmonious surroundings along the Kennebec River.

Myofascial Release Therapy

John F. Barnes' Myofascial Release Approach™ is the ultimate mind/body therapy that is safe, gentle and consistently effective. Myofascial Release Therapy has been taught by John F. Barnes, PT, for over 40 years and is considered to be the "Ferrari" of Physical Therapy: it's fast, it is based on sound scientific insights and quantum physics, and it puts the patient in the driver's seat.

MFR is a physical therapy modality that is covered by most medical insurances, provided your doctor has prescribed physical therapy for a medical condition.

After intake and evaluation, the first step in an MFR session is the gentle application of sustained pressure into the body's fascial restrictions. There is an essential "time element" in that the pressure of the therapist's hands must be held long enough and with just the right amount of pressure to engage the collagenous barrier. This allows a piezoelectric phenomenon to occur, which in turn creates an elongation of the viscoelastic medium (the fascia). In simpler terms: the "stuck" fascia is released creating space for lymphatic fluids to flow, which nurtures and detoxifies cells and tissues and healing occurs.

In essence, MFR therapy unravels the straight jacket inside your body. One fascial restriction can create 2,000 pounds per square inch of pressure on delicate nerves and blood vessels causing pain and suffering.

Another important aspect of MFR is that it encourages the patient to access their intuition and to expand into "feeling" what their body needs. We are all born with this inner wisdom, but are rarely encouraged to use it. With an expert MFR therapist as your guide, you are able to get in touch with the fear, anger, embarrassment, sadness, etc. that is trapped in your tissue "memory". Going back in time and remembering the moment of injury, whether physical and/or emotional, creates an opportunity to "unwind" those traumas. This step is deeply therapeutic and produces lasting relief, even for those who have suffered pain and disability for years!

By now you're probably asking, "What is fascia?" Modern medicine has long ignored this tough connective tissue which covers the body in a three-dimensional web from head to toe. It is the container and transport medium for the body's fluids. Fascia is in every cell of your body, from bones, to organs, muscles, tendons and ligaments, and it even covers your brain and spinal cord. This web of fascia is the home of the lymphatic system which includes white blood cells, (very important players in your immune system), collagen and elastin fibers, ground substance and water. Trauma, injury, poor posture or inflammation can create a binding down of fascia, resulting in excessive pressure on nerves, muscles, blood vessels, bones and organs.

For more information:  www.myofascialrelease.com

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Not redeemable for cash.

Must call ahead to schedule appointment.

This item was donated in memory of Grace Estes.