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Health that is the predominant aspect of life. If you dont have health, then your life will be difficult. The science of health medicine has been one of the most important aspects that researchers into the body condition have been investigating for over 200 years. Two bodily conditions will be addressed here: inflammation and myofacial.
Inflammation
Inflammation is a physical condition. The cause: infection or injury. What happens? The body changes appearance. It becomes swollen and hot; the skin can turn to a red color. Unfortunately, it is painful.
Although this may be hard to believe, but inflammation is a positive thing in the body. Normally we associate inflammation with pain, but inflammation is a necessary part of the body's response to the problems associated with injury and infection.
How is that possible?
Think of bodily self-protection. The aim of inflammation is to remove harmful stimuli. Now this can include damaged cells (caused by heat or radiation), irritants (chemical agents that bring about the state of irritation), or pathogens (anything that causes a disease). When it does that here is what happens: it begins the healing process.
Well if inflammation is positive, why is there pain, thats negative?
There are two issues involved with inflammation: tissue swelling and molecular signal. That means that the pain that comes with inflammation is caused by tissue swelling that presses on nerves. But, there is another part that is responsible for the pain and that is the chemical substances.
Chemical Substances
Here a molecular signal is present and then it is converted into an electrical impulse that initiates the pain for the body. A thing to note is that the molecular signal provides the ability for cells to look at their microenvironment (the area where the micro cells are located) and correctly respond to that micro setting. This is the basis of physical conditions like tissue repair, development, and immunity.
Quick Review
OKInflammation is a physical condition that shows how the body is trying to deal with problems affecting the health of the body. Inflammation is a positive aspect in dealing with the underlying conditions that are causing problems. Think of inflammation as the bodys way of saying that it isnt going to take the problems of injury or illness lying down.
Now another aspect of illness is Myofascial. In brief, it is a way of dealing with some general aspect of the physical condition.
What is Myofascial about?
Here are some body conditions that it addresses:
Poor Posture (it is hard to stand upright),
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (you feel tired all the time),
Back Pain (even if nothing on the outside happened to your back),
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (a painful condition of the hand and fingers),
Scoliosis (a condition showing that the spine bends to the side either to the right or left),
Arthritis (a painful condition that affects the musculoskeletal system, specifically the joints), and
Tennis elbow (a condition caused by overuse of hand muscles, the forearm, and arm, which results in elbow pain.)
What is Myofascial therapy?
Once it is determined that a person is suffering from one (or more) of the conditions of Myofiscial what does the therapy do? It is a form of soft tissue therapy intended for pain relief and increasing the range of motion.
How does it do that?
It works by stretching and loosening the fascia. The fascia is a soft tissue component of connective tissue. For example, when you have muscles or a group of muscles, plus blood vessels, and nerves, it permits some structures to slide smoothly over each other while it binds other structures together.
How important is the Fascia?
Pretty important. Fascia provides support and protection for most structures in the body including muscles as well as the organs. It also plays a major role in maintaining normal metabolic processes.
The end point of the therapy is that the bodily structures affected by the Myofascial problem will be resolved so they can move freely so as to restore normal function and mobility.
Types of Myofascial Therapy Techniques
There are two techniques types of myofascial therapy: Direct therapy and Indirect therapy.
In the Direct Myofascial Technique Therapy, the practitioners use knuckles, elbows or other tools to stretch slowly the restricted fascia.
In the Indirect Myofascial Technique Therapy, this involves application of a very low pressure to the fascia. This will increase the blood and heat circulation of the restricted area.
Summary
These two forms of physical health are common and the approach to deal with them shows the common ways that improvement can take place. In the inflammation format, this is internal (deals with the cells), while with the Myofascial format this is external (deals with the body).
