Fascial Manipulation (Stecco Method)
Musculoskeletal Treatments
Fascial Manipulation
FASCIAL MANIPULATION is an effective cutting edge hands on treatment, upon a tissue in our body called “Fascia”.
FASCIA is a thin tissue which connects everything in our body to each other. It is also very sensitive as it possesses nerves that informs our brain about our movements and sometimes pain. In our limbs it is comprised of layers which glide over each other on a slippy fluid. So, as you contract your muscle to move, fascia glides over and within them. Healthy fascia slides as we move and is thought to help coordinate muscles in their movement.
INJURY, surgery, overactivity are some things that may cause local areas of this fluid to become sticky, stiffer (densified), limiting local glide of the fascia. As we then walk or run, those stiffer areas limit the muscles movement, creating symptoms as mentioned below.
SYMPTOMS include pain on walking, running, sitting and standing, nerve type pain. This can be local or radiate elsewhere in the leg and foot. It can create a sense of stiffness around a joint.
AIM of the treatment is to change the sticky fluid back to being slippy again, bringing positive benefits as outlined below.
TREATMENT BENEFITS
– Can help reduce pain in movement.
– Aid improved muscle and joint function, post injury, even long standing injury.
– Help return you to an activity.
– Be a profound help in an overall treatment care pathway, certainly in been found to help intransigent muscle guarding and some post trauma dystonia.
After years of utising them I was HISTORY of Using Fascial Manipulation
I have have been using Fascial Manipulation Stecco Techniques since 2016 and they are firmly established in my work for injury rehabilitation. They can be….Most especially useful injury recovery seems to be taking a long time introduced their use in Podiatry, gaining Royal College of Podiatry approved sttus for ex For me they provide a helpful addition for diagnosing and treating can be used to both diagnosed and treat areas of fascia in the low limb and footWhen people present to me with various injuries to the low leg, foot and ankle, Fascial Manipulation (FM) is very much a go to tool in helping with diagnosis and treatment options, primarily because of its potential for profound benefits during treatment, even if the injury was years ago.
I first trained in FM in London, January 2016, and have since trained further in FM skills, both in Belgium and Italy (where it originated). More recently I was able to attend a week long course at Padua University, a mix of lectures and dissection of the fascia. Amongst other things this experience affirmed for me the intricate way fascia influences how we move and can affect our pain experience.
Although I am trained in whole body FM, as podiatrist I only use this approach from the pelvis down,