Visualizing Problems with Muscle

The problems of muscular trigger points and myofascial adhesions and how they interact are difficult to understand.

I would love to create a flash movie that depicts what happens and how treatment can work to resolve these problems. I think it would really help a lot of people and accelerate therapies that work.

I've scoped out the cost of creating something like this and it looks like it would cost $10-20k. Anyone want to finance this or help me create a non-profit that cold apply for a grant to do this? Contact me.

When Stretching Does More Harm Than Good

Both the muscle and the fascia that surrounds it can be stretched. But certain conditions can greatly reduce the ultimate length that either can be safely stretched.

When a muscle has significant trigger points, many of the myofibrils are very tight and shorter than normal. A myofibril is a string of sarcomeres, the actual structures that open and close when you use your muscles.

When you have a muscular trigger point, you have myofibrils where these sarcomeres are stuck in their contracted positions. Healthy sarcomeres in the same myofibril can still stretch and some may be stretching all of the time.

If you stretch a muscle where things are already stretched to the limit, you risk overstretching. And it does not make the muscle more flexible.

The stuck sarcomeres have to be unstuck. And that's not easy. But its the only way.