For years, Bridgeport Physical Therapy has helped people in the local community and beyond. All you had to go was visit their long-time Main Street location or their new branch at White Oaks.

 

Now, with the Coronavirus pandemic impacting businesses such as Bridgeport Physical Therapy and even some of their clients, they’re still looking to help. This time, however, you don’t have to go to the office or make an appointment to find relief from something that’s affecting many – stress.

 

Bridgeport Physical Therapy owner Mike Martin has recently released a video, which can be seen below, of Myofascial Release. It’s a therapy procedure he said that aids individuals in many areas, but for purposes of the current world in which we live it’s helpful with stress and providing calm as well as clearing one’s mind for clear thoughts.

 

“We actually started offering it at the clinic in the mid-1990s and it was one of the reasons we grew so much. It’s a therapy approach that’s worked with individuals when other approaches don’t work or don’t provide the necessary help,” said Martin.

 

The therapy is hands-on and uses gentle pressure into Myofascial connective tissue restrictions. The goal is to eliminate pain, restore motion, as well as improve blood, oxygen, and lymphatic circulation, among other benefits. One of those benefits, said Martin who has been doing the treatment almost exclusively for eight years, is stress relief.

 

“Almost every patient where I’m working the cranial release on their heads feel a nice sense of calm afterwards. Sometimes they tell me a few days, sometimes longer,” said Martin. “Everyone has told me it is helpful, even several early onset Alzheimer’s patients who show improvement for a few days after treatment.”

 

The success of the treatment led Martin to make a presentation to a local senior group that meets monthly. Last April, he was contacted by Bob Anderson about talking to the group and Martin met and talked about the treatment.

 

“I was asked to do it again this April and, even though I’m sure it’s going to be postponed, I was already working on a video to show,” said Martin. “Now, those seniors can hopefully have access to this and anyone else can have access to it as well.”

 

The video is roughly 29 minutes long, but the treatment showing how to work Myofascial release for chronic heads, TMJ and neck pain, stress and other issues takes between 10 and 15 minutes, Martin said the first part of the video explains the science behind the procedure.

 

Editor's Note: Top photo shows Mike Martin, while his wife Kim is shown doing some of the process explained in the video in the bottom screenshot.