Postural Facilitation Massage

The body is exposed to all sorts of stresses. These stresses are either utilised by the body for its own benefit or they become destructive to the body which then the body has to recover from. When these stresses become destructive within the spinal column, there are situations that can occur that cause a lower level of functioning and performance. Such performance that can be affected are your moods, ability to think clearly, libido, energy, strength, digestion, assimilation of nutrients, recovery levels, playing sports, working out, in fact anything can be affected and you may not experience any symptoms or pain while this is happening. Your performance may be lowering on a day to day basis without any conscious awareness of what is happening. This is very similar if your house electrical system had interference. Appliances would not work, lights may be dimmer, couldn’t charge our phone and other things that rely on electricity.

A Postural Facilitation Massage Practitioners’ role is to detect where the spinal columns integrity has been compromised. A Practitioner does this by palpating the muscles around the spine to check where the muscles are working hard to attempt to restore integrity back in the spine.

The next step for the Practitioner is to help those muscles achieve their outcome by applying gentle forces/pressure on those muscles. The Practitioner only helps the body achieve what the body is already attempting to do for itself, but is unable to complete the task on its own. The force/pressure that is applied to the muscle is in the same direction to assist the muscle in it’s working to correct itself.