Day far too far!

One year or so ago i started this adventure to see the benefits of the foam roller AND to make one my self as i can't think of spending more than 30€ for a thing made of foam goddamit!

So after a month or so of practice i did feel some benefits but no great changes so i went across the TUMBLER FOAM ROLLER as i wanted more results. Check it out, its a roller with medium density and nice lumps that make you swear like an old italian country side man, its expensive but does a bit better its job. Not close enough to my expectations though.

Next step, couple of weeks later i started my skii season,as i'm pretty lucky :) i live 25 mins from the skii resorts, and the first day i started feeling a soreness in the medial quad of my right leg.
Since i'm a PT the questions in mynmind started to rush, specially one (meniscus???). The foam roller did very little for it, and it got frustrating.

Luckily i came across Dr. Stephen Rodrigues studies on acupunture, former Md and acupuncturist that works in Dallas, his technic is on neuro muscular needling, dry needling that puts the needle right in the trigger point allowing to get the following benefits :

De activates the trigger point as you stick the needle in.

Repolarizes the muscle tension, we'll go through this in a second moment keep it like this for the moment.

It's a break through of metabolites that enchance the cellular regeneration from the deep core.

I ordered the needles from the net, got them and stuck them on myself on the sorest spots: amazing results, the pain on the quad ( dry needling done 1 hour before going snowboarding)  just disappeared for the whole season! Not finished. As i started to feel more loose and without tension the stamina, muscle response, and the feeling great gave me such a kick that the improvements i've done this season are far out better of my whole snowboard practice.

Day 3

Not clear results yet, haven't felt much change after the "treatment", also because i've been quite drunk the day after so can't tell precisly how it went exept for the fact that some knots i had on the lateral quad of ly left feels better, less big as dimensions and easyer to go on the roll.

I've increased the time of each muscle to 1 minute.

Had a bad feeling today on a postural class when during a isometric exercise, a hip flextion sitting, i started to tremble pretty soon, so i got depressed for some secs then angry and more motivated to continue as i know tps, they go down if you work on 'em.

Get this vid it explains the stuff in a clear way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDN7QM7GX-Y

Day 1

                                                           Muscles Realease Program

Timing   30 to 1 minute rolling per muscle, both sides.

It Band

Quads
       Medial
       Lateral
       Central

TFL

Triceps

Lastissimus dorsi.

I'll write the sore spots after a week as now there are pretty much everywhere.

Presentation

Hello Everybody! My name's Lex, I'm Physical therapist and osteopath, 30 yo from italy. I've been into trigger point and Mysiofacial Syndromes for 4 years since I've seen a collegue in swiss, where i've studied, treating a front shoulders' pain from the infraspinatus muscle, and that's behind thew shoulder. I nmade a strange face asking myself if she was nuts to not go directly to the pain's place, but rubbing for some minutes kicked out the pain that the patient had.


Since then i use the trigger points as my main source of pain relief.

i've been through some stressful situations in my past that "tenses up" my muscles taking me to a close situation called "fibromialgia" that means short stamina, general muscle pain in the trained muscles and tons of frustration as my expectations of young man willing to improve his human machine got close were non achieved.

This blog is about my experience on foam rollers, a device that everyone can use for self treating these muscle knots that limit the true potential of our muscles capacity of expression.

There are loads of foam rollers on the market but I built my own for around 7$ instead of 30-50$.

I made my own from a plastic tube that is used for connecting your house to the main sewer system, the foam is for wrapping the aircooling tubes and it's between soft and hard, and black ducktape for electrical uses as it's a bit elastic and squeeses well the foam on the tube.

I checked some exercises on the net and started my journey for muscle change...

A BIG thanks goes to Cassidy Phillips, the creator and CEO of TRIGGER POINT PERFORMANCE, the guy i got inspiration from, do check his page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4vef6ialedM

Thanks for your attention.