24/08/2023
Yesterdays client was the lovely 💚 who requested a deep tissue massage on her lower back. Laura is persistent with her training, with weightlifting & CrossFit. She is constantly active so we did testing on her glutes and hamstrings to see if one is compensating more than another, resulting in us finding that she had a few tight knots in her vastus lateralis (the outside of her thigh) and slight knots in her piriformis (behind the glute max). Further on we went to work on her QL muscles. These are muscles that extend, stabilises and laterally flex the lumbar spine, so if this is tight it may be pulling the lower pain resulting in pain, so trigger pointing this muscle really helps with releasing tension and potential adhesions.
We did sciatic nerve flossing, a technique used to move the nerve and stretch it up and throughout the body to see if she has any sciatic pain. Laura didn’t, only to her thigh which could mean she has Piriformis tightness / issues.
We also did trigger pointing, active muscle release on her back & PNF stretching on her hamstrings. The goal of this appointment was to see what kind of issues we were working with, hence the special tests involved, to relax muscles, work any knots and deep adhesion with fascia release.
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