Therapist

LMT

Mascha Thompson

Myofascial Release changed my life, both physically and in the direction I was inspired to pursue in life. I started my own journey with Myofascial Release as a client. For three years I had both a sharp stabbing pain and a dull, continuous ache in my left knee that only went away when I rode my horse and sometimes when I was laying down.Two surgeries for supposed meniscus tears did nothing to change the ever nagging and increasing ache. In 2010 I was connected with a wonderful John Barnes Myofascial Release Therapist: Lance Collins. After three treatments my ache disappeared (it stemmed among other things from an imbalance in my hips and my minor scoliosis) and with maintenance sessions every month for the first two years I was able to stay ache free. I knew then that I was going to pursue MFR as a life path, Lance suggested I begin with horses.So my journey as a therapist began. First equine MFR, later becoming a Licensed Massage Therapist so I could treat people with MFR too. Most recently in 2019 I attended the first Tensegrity Balancing Therapy seminar lead by it's creator Tami Elkayam and am currently on the path to certification in that.I strive to continue learning and become the best facilitator for your healing journey that I can be.

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Modalities

Tensegrity Balancing Therapy

Modality Creator: Tami Elkayam
"Tensegrity Balancing Therapy is a three pronged approach to maintaining and restoring the integrity of equine body tensegrity.
1) Brain: The brain is targeted to help regulate and re-balance the nervous system by harnessing and retraining the brain through neuroplasticity.
2) Somatosensory Integration: Somatosensory integration is targeted by utilizing touch combined with motion to reactivate the connection of body and brain while reduce cortical smudging.
3) Fascial Remodeling: We facilitate fascial remodeling to create a more balanced whole body tensegrity.

Tensegrity is a design principle that applies when a discontinuous set of compression elements is opposed and balanced by a continuous tensile force, thereby creating an internal pre-stress that stabilizes the entire structure.

Fascia follows this principle in the body. When we have compromised tensegrity and the body is struggling to maintain shape and structure, compensation takes place. This can manifest itself in muscle strain, joint dysfunction, organ dysfunction, nerve restriction and fascial adhesions.

Daily application of techniques which contrast the habitual patterns allows the body to return to balanced tensegrity."
Tami Elkayam

Myofascial Release Therapy

Modality Creater: John F. Barnes
"The John F. Barnes’ Myofascial Release Approach® is considered to be the ultimate therapy that is safe, gentle and consistently effective in producing results that last. John F. Barnes, PT has trained over 100,000 therapists and physicians, is an international lecturer, author and authority on Myofascial Release. He is a physical therapist and is considered to be a visionary and teacher of the highest caliber.

Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.)

The medical approach is to drug patients so they temporarily are free from pain, but does nothing about the “straight-jacket” of pressure that is causing the pain. Traditional physical, occupational and massage therapy treats the symptoms caused by the pressure of the “straight-jacket” of the Myofascial system, but does nothing about the “straight-jacket” of pressure that causes and perpetuates the symptoms. This is why so many patients only have temporary results never seeming to get better with traditional therapy. Only Myofascial Release treats the entire Myofascial mind/body complex eliminating the pressure of the restricted Myofascial system (the straight-jacket) that causes the symptoms.

Patients are sent to us from around the world for Myofascial Release when medicine, surgery or traditional therapy or massage did not produce the desired results. Myofascial Release will safely and gently release the entire Myofascial complex for lasting and comprehensive results and authentic healing."
John Barnes Myofascial Release website.