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    A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release: Simple Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release: Simple Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
    A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release: Simple Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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    A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release: Simple Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

    By Cathy Covell

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    This book is a great resource for anyone in the healthcare profession or anyone who facilities the healing process. It is especially helpful for body workers and therapists. It gives simple answers that can help both therapists and patients with their understanding of the healing process in general, and also helps with more specific questions about myofascial release.

    Some of the questions are: what is myofascial release? How is myofascial release different from other techniques? What can myofascial release help with?

    The answers given are simple, concise, and will help with an overall understanding of the healing process, which can then allow for faster and more significant results.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJan 17, 2014
    ISBN9781452589589
    A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release: Simple Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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    Cathy Covell

    Not only is Cathy a physical therapist, but she is also someone who suffered from debilitating chronic pain for years. This is what led her to trying myofasical release as a treatment option. Once she realized that myofascial release was the missing piece that was able to help with her overall healing, she began taking the classes offered by John F. Barnes, PT. She quickly realized that this technique was extremely effective. And that by learning this technique she would not only be able to help herself, but also help her clients. Cathy had the opportunity to work at one of John’s treatment centers for over two years which has helped her become an expert in the field of myofascial release. This book is a compilation of simple answers to the questions that are most frequently asked by patients and therapists. It is a very valuable tool in the healing process.

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      A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release - Cathy Covell

      Copyright © 2008, 2014 Cathy Covell.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-8957-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-8958-9 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date: 1/3/2014

      Contents

      Special Thanks!!

      About This Edition

      Forward

      Introduction

      My background with JFB-MFR

      Chapter

      1. What is JFB-MFR?

      2. How is JFB-MFR different from other forms of therapy?

      3. Can JFB-MFR help with…?

      4. Will JFB-MFR overstretch the tissue?

      5. Why is my therapist treating areas other than where the symptoms are located?

      6. What if my symptoms get worse?

      7. What happens when my original symptoms are better, but now I feel symptoms somewhere new?

      8. Why is it when my therapist is treating one area I feel sensations in another area?

      9. What does my therapist mean by feel under the pain?

      10. How do I bring in awareness and clear?

      11. What do I do when I want to figure it out?

      12. What if I was making progress but now I am having a flare up?

      13. What if I have leveled out?

      14. Why are emotions coming up?

      15. Why would I want to feel the emotions that come up?

      16. What if I don’t want to feel or remember that again?

      17. Why is my body moving?

      18. Can I treat myself?

      19. What about diet and supplements and JFB-MFR?

      20. What about exercising?

      21. Can JFB-MFR help prevent surgery?

      22. Why doesn’t my therapist want family members or friends in the treatment room?

      23. JFB-MFR: Motion for Life!

      Afterword

      Endnotes

      Other books by Cathy Covell

      A Therapist’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release

      Feeling Your Way Through

      Special Thanks!!

      First and foremost thanks to John F. Barnes, PT! If it weren’t for you, none of this would be possible. There aren’t enough words to express everything you have done for me by being strong enough to follow your intuition. Thanks for your love and your guidance.

      Thanks to Valerie McGraw and Carol Bannister for your support with this book. Carol, thanks for helping me when I couldn’t quite put what I was thinking into writing. Val, thanks for your endless supply of faith in my ability and for your support during the times I hit the stumbling blocks. You were a rock during the storms.

      Thanks to Sandy Hilton for being a sounding board, an editor, and a resource into the world of publishing. Thanks also to Dave and Jan Frederick. I really appreciate all the help.

      Thanks to Donna Killion for your compassion and support during my healing process. You’ve helped me more than you know.

      And a big thanks to all the people in the John F. Barnes’ Myofascial Release (JFB-MFR) community who encouraged me to put my MFR chat posts together in one book.

      About This Edition

      This edition of A Patient’s Guide to Understanding Myofascial Release contains updated information, rewritten material, and corrections to copy errors in the previous edition. I worked closely with Joe Miller, LCMT, in producing this edition. Joe suggested manuscript and copy edits to the original edition of this book; I accepted the ones I felt maintained my original meaning and tone.

      Joe brought a special combination of abilities to the editing of this edition. A licensed, nationally-certified massage therapist practicing JFB-MFR exclusively, Joe began his journey with JFB-MFR at the Healing Seminar in 2002. He has practiced JFB-MFR exclusively since 2004.

      Before becoming a massage therapist in order to practice JFB-MFR, Joe spent over 25

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