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"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - Steve Andreas
 "For many years Tom Myers has demonstrated an inexplicable ability to integrate complex biostructural concepts into practical therapeutic roadmaps to guide somatic practitioners through the body’s fascial tensegrity system. "In his own inimitable humorous style, Myers cleverly combines anatomy train, tensegrity and myofascial meridian models into a format that teaches manual and movement therapists practical ways to identify and restore interconnections and interfaces to all the body’s systems. Since connective tissues are always pre-stressed under continuous tension, they respond to increased stress with increased tension. Most soft tissue therapists sense this global interconnectedness but often dismiss the opportunity to create ‘wholeness’ by treating locally and thus settling for temporary alleviation of symptoms, e.g., 'chasing the pain'. "In the early 80’s, Stephen Levin, MD wrote a splendid article entitled, 'Continuous Tension, Discontinuous Compression: A Model for Biomechanical Support of the Body'. One of my favorite of Dr. Levin’s quotes simply states that 'only in failure does the spinal column function as a "stack of blocks."' Myers has expounded on this concept both in theory and practice by painstakingly mapping fascial structures that support and lift the spinal column preventing excessive gravitational exposure. "Anatomy Trains has empowered my structurally-oriented pain management practice with new approaches for identifying distant fascial “kinks” that compress, torsion and fixate spinal joints leading to reflex muscle guarding and pain/spasm/pain cycles. Myers’ fascial tensegrity model is truly a remarkable achievement that makes sense as a basis for a new view of biomechanics. Born from many years of hard work and dedication, I suspect that 20 years from now therapists and researchers will have fully adopted the fascial tensegrity model at many levels including biomechanical, energetic and molecular. "Erik Dalton, Ph.D., shares his passion for somatic therapies such as Rolfing®, manipulative osteopathy, and the work of Vladimir Janda, M.D., in his innovating and entertaining pain-management books, videos and workshops. Dedicated to research and treatment of chronic pain, Dalton developed his Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques® and founded the Freedom From Pain Institute®. For additional information about this pioneering approach to holistic ‘hands-on healing’ browse the Institute’s web site, www.FreedomFromPain.com." |
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