Advanced Myofascial Techniques: Ribs

Restricted rib motion can arise from the usual things that cause us to loose mobility: stress, postural and habitual stance, inactivity, disease, pain, or injury. No matter what the cause, skilled hands-on work can be an effective way to help re-establish lost motion.

Take a breath. How much did your ribcage move, and where? Take another breath, this time without moving your ribs quite as much. The unpleasant, hard-to-breathe sensation? That’s what restricted rib motion feels like, whether the restrictions are from connective tissue constriction, pain, posture, or habit.

Breath efficacy affects a wide range of functions, from metabolic processes, to our energy level, alertness, and mood. Since we take approximately 24,000 breaths in a day, even small changes in our respiratory efficiency will have cumulative and far-reaching body-mind effects. Fortunately, this multiplying effect works both ways: not only can breath resections make us feel bad, but even small, incremental improvements in rib freedom can improve well-being on many levels.

Till presents techniques that will increase your effectiveness for working with:

• rib and spinal pain,
• ligament and joint conditions,
• respiratory issues,
• surgery and injury recovery,
• as well as movement limitations and postural issues.

Filmed especially for this format, these best-selling videos show effective hands-on myofascial tools, assessments, and techniques that address common client complaints. Each course includes instructor demonstrations, explanations, student questions, and technique variations. Since their original release, the Advanced Myofascial Techniques videos have become classic reference, teaching, and study resources, purchased and used by tens of thousands of hands-on practitioners around the world, in clinics, universities, private practices, sports centers, and spas offering physical therapy, sports rehabilitation, orthopedics, massage therapy, and more. The techniques and protocols are designed to be used on their own, or combined with myofascial release, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, structural integration and Rolfing®*, active release therapy (ART), shiatsu, acupuncture, neuromuscular therapy, medical massage, orthopedic massage, fascial release, and more.

BONUS: Includes free download of the accompanying online Course Notebook PDF which illustrates each of the video’s techniques with clear photographs, selected key points, cautions, and space for your annotations. Use the notebook together with the video to organize your notes and maximize your learning.

Total running time: 1:32 (92 min)

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