Structural Balancing & Postural Evaluation

Structural Balancing …

… refers to the overall analysis of the Client’s Personal “Big Picture.” It includes various elements of their health history, what kinds of exercise or stretching they do, what injuries or accidents they’ve had or been in, and so on. …

Postural Evaluation (or Assessment) …

… is a very specific examination of where their bones are positioned in space, and relative to each other. This helps you understand which are the most over-shortened muscles. These are very often where a Client holds the most tension, stress and even trauma, and are usually the very first muscle(s) to address in a proper …

Myo-Structural Bodywork Sessions …

The “Myo-“ refers to the focus on treating of muscle(s) to bring the Client’s physical structure back into proper balance. While Myo-Structural refers to the strategy of how we decide WHERE (which muscles, or parts of muscles) to work, we use our hands-on, manual technique to actually treat the muscles.

The word “muscle” traditionally INCLUDES the fascial sheaths closely and intimately encasing the muscle fibers. Those fascial sheaths also converge to become the tendons at the ends of each muscle. Therefore this author tends to call them “musculo-fascial units.”

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