About
Myofascial STL Plus
A Center for Holistic Health Services
Myofascial STL Plus is a Complementary Health Services clinic, founded by Mary Felling, PT originally as the Myofascial Treatment Center in the year 2000. Our center emphasizes non-Opiod and hands-on approaches to treating pain, dysfunction, stress and anxiety. Integrative bodywork (specialized therapies) is applied in a one-on-one treatment session in a compassionate and relaxed atmosphere. We combine Myofascial Release, Craniosacral Therapy and Lymphatic Drainage to release fight or flight holding pattens in the body, restoring ease of movement and releaseing tension in the body. At Myofascial STL Plus, we KEEP IT SIMPLE, and you can leave feeling better. Clients will leave their first session with one or two simple techniques than can be incorporated into their daily routine. A technique than will not require extra time, that will be easy and provide relief. We have recently added InHarmony Vibroacoustic treatment tables to our practice. Clients have the opportunity to experience Vibroacoustics as a stand alone session or in combination with a bodywork session. The InHarmony Vibroacoutic furntiture allows clients to move into a meditative or relaxed state with no effort on their behalf. As a stand alone session, the Sound Lounge automatically relaxes the mind and body into a meditative state, no effort required. As a compliment to Integrative Bodywork, the Practitioner enhances the bodywork as the body and mind are in a deep state of relaxation. The InHarmony Vibroacoustic equipment is ideal for clients who are frustated with their attempts to meditate or find it difficult to meditate. Tactile transducers are embedded in the surface of the equipment and vibrate at various speeds and locations. The vibratory transducers then coordinate with music that is delivered via a headset (or via no headset if preferred), allowing for an easy, fun way to meditate or relax. Many of us live in a fight/flight response (activating the symathetic nervous system and cortisol production) and this approach can shift you into the rest/relax/restore side of the nervous system (parasympathetic nervous system).
For research on Vibroacoustics click on the link below:
https://iaminharmony.com/pages/science-research
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EDS and Hypersensitivity
At Myofascial STL Plus, we specialize in working with clients with hypermobility, hypersensitivity and EDS. Our clinicians have personal experience with EDS and hypermobility, especially as it relates to the MTHFR gene with SNP's or deviations. It has long been assumed that clients with hypermobility should exercise and that exercise can benefit such clients. However, recent advances in genetic research have indicated that joint loading and even light weights for clients with hypermobility may trigger inflammatory responses in the body resulting in significant auto immune responses and pain. THERE IS NO BODY OF RESEARCH INDICATING THAT RESISTIVE EXERCISE IS BENEFICIAL TO HYPERMOBILE PATIENTS IN REGARDS TO PAIN OR INFLAMMATION. Current research looks only at muscle strength and takes no consideration related to increasing the pain or inflammatory response for the hypermobile patient whatsoever. Not one of the current research projects has ever asked or looked at the hypermobile patient in regards to increases in pain or inflammation that result from joint loading or resistive exercise. In fact, current research may indicate that active motion only is most beneficial to hypermobile clients, and that resisted exercise may actually not be beneficial at all. Therefore, active motion, walking on level surfaces, yoga without extreme stretch, dancing, mild stretching are all likely the most effective for hypermobile and EDS individuals. Myofascial release is beneficial for EDS and hypermobile individuals, as these clients tend to use their fascia for support. In fact, fascial thickening is quite common as discussed in the following research study "Fascial thickness and stiffness in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome", by Tina J Wang and Antonia Stecco.
Wang TJ, Stecco A. Fascial thickness and stiffness in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2021 Dec;187(4):446-452. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31948. Epub 2021 Nov 6. PMID: 34741592.
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