PASSIVACTIVE TECHNIQUE IN MYOFASCIAL DETACHMENT: LOWER LIMBS - 3RD PART - - MASSAGE-TECHNIQUES

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Passivactive technique in myofascial detachment: lower limbs

"This work, elaborated with great commitment and personal research by the sports masseur Maurizio Ronchi, offers the opportunity to professionals and scholars of manual therapies to further reflect on the main factors that affect the treatment of some sports pathologies, which significantly affect competitive performance.
In fact, the opportunities for discussion and reflection on the methodologies for treating sports muscle pathologies are always too limited and often the experts find little time to devote to updating or technical-scientific debate. The discussion of new points of interest. view, methodological innovations and the results of the experiments must be welcomed for the development of massage methodologies.
This work aims to propose innovative points of view and original reflections. It has a considerable applicative value and is aimed at practical work, since it arises from a singular fusion between direct experience on the slopes and competition fields and in-depth knowledge of muscle physiology. The iconographic presentation of the manual skills examined is excellent.
The author is fully aware that the difficulty of studying the effectiveness of the method with advanced scientific methodologies does not always make it possible to verify all the hypotheses and concepts, so he expects future investigations to reveal inaccuracies or limitations of this work, with a more broad ... but basically it is precisely in this way that collective knowledge progresses ".

Prof. Rosario Bellia
Italian national physiotherapist F.I.H. P.
Kinesiology taping instructor
http://kinesiobellia.wordpress.com/

...I will try then to explain how the passive technique applied in sports is a very effective method for the release of myofascial adhesions which, with the aim of improving a tied not very physiological biomechanical condition in the athlete, it optimizes sporting performance.

This work is the result of my twenty-five years of experience as an instructor, athletic trainer and masseur for various sports groups, and is aimed without academic pretensions to all operators in the sector, especially those who are starting the path as a sports masseur. The manual skills described are not therapeutic, of others' competence, they have been studied and developed for the maintenance and increase of functional biomechanics for athletes of medium-high athletic level, where their body is subjected to important training and sports performance. I want to specify that I am neither a "doctor nor" sports therapist, but a researcher-operator technician in this field and that thanks to my training as a chemist with experience in biochemical analysis, I try to identify and understand some of the physiological phenomena that occur in the myofascial tissue during the application of massage techniques. For all these years I have had and am fortunate to collaborate with biologists, doctors and sports physiotherapists, the source of my training background, with whom we continue to review or develop new techniques and specific manual skills for sportsmen and athletes, or as they are now called. sport-bodyworks.

To corroborate the passive technique, a method that I have been applying for some time in myofascial detachment manual techniques, was finding a confirmation in Robert Schleip's superb study on fascia, with particular reference to his work "Fascial plasticity - a new neruobiological explanation", where I found a significant explanation of the biochemical and biomechanical mechanisms that intervene in the tissues treated during the sports massage session with the passive technique. I want to mention Art Riggs, one of the most respected bodyworkers, which thanks to the fruitful mutual exchange of opinions and experiences has contributed to tuning of my methodology. Basically I want to explain how this technique kinetics based on the "help of the athlete in sustaining a" dynamic action in conditions of light stretching, twisting or muscle contraction during the manual massage for the release of myofascial adhesions - condition passive of the athlete - is more effective than the classic static detachment.