Category: Bodytool

The 'Magic Stick'

5/26/2012

This is an email I got from a client regarding her treatment and the bodytool. Brigitte is a former Australian BMX Champion and flew down from Brisbane for the day due to an ongoing back injury she had been carrying for over a year.

Hi Mick and Chris,

So sorry I haven't got back to you sooner. Im feeling great!! Definitely felt a little beaten up the following day after the treatment. Really only in my calves and my belly button but I was expecting that.

I have renamed the 'Bodytool' to my 'Magic Stick'. I LOVE it! I have been treating myself a little bit every day and my back is feeling amazing. It hasn't felt this good in a year. It used to always be in the back of my head as a source of pain now if I do feel a little bit of tightness its so easy to rub out with the Magic Stick. Im really surprised at how easily I can treat pretty much the entire length of my spine with the tool, which is in my opinion a huge advantage cause you can target the exact source of pain and apply pressure accordingly. All the fascial adhesions through my thoracic spine are gone which I think has given me a huge amount of relief. I have found it really useful in releasing TFL, which was super tight on me and normally quite a hard muscle to release. You can really target TFL with the tool and I think this also helps take the pressure off my back. I have worked out how to release my psoas which is feeling really good. No more hot showers or heat packs :)

Thank you so much for the treatment and the 'Bodytool'! I feel amazing and really value the fact that I have this special little tool that I can use any wear, any time to get relief when I need it.

Thanks again,
Brigitte

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1 Year on. Happy Birthday BodywallNorthShore.

4/3/2012

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Well. Tomorrow 4th April will be BodywallNorthshore's first anniversary. It's been a great first year with many clients enjoying the unique benefits that only The Bodywall can provide. Extra fitness and much greater flexiblity that lasts. When combined with some Bodytool treatments the results are even more staggering. I've found that most flexibility issues have nothing to do with the actual muscle but more to do with fascial adhesions and scar tissue that restrict movement. Once these are removed properly then range of motion improves instantly. Am certainly looking forward to this year. Chris Toal is here on 23rd April for 3 days to further my training with Bodytool treatments. This is an incredible soft tissue treatment technique and we now get referrals from local chiropractors and doctors.
The uniqueness of both the Bodywall and Bodytool means there is little hard literature to read but the results speak for themselves. Once you understand pain, how your body reacts to it, hides it, pushes it around etc and how this goes on to debilitate you in many different ways then you will understand the true benefits of this treatment and training. Feel young again. People (including me 1 year ago) think when you get to a certain age that you have to just put up and live with some pain. This is not true!!!!!! My 3 year chronic achilles problem has gone. Elbow pain...Gone! Shoulder niggles...Gone! Knee pain...Gone! Sore feet in the morning...Gone! I think you get it. We are all going to age. We can't stop that. But it doesn't mean we have to age with pain in our bodies. Get your life back so you can return to or continue to do the things you love in life. Here's to a pain free future.

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What is the Bodytool, Pain Management and how does it work?

9/12/2011

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People keep asking me what is the Bodytool, how do I use it and how does it work? I’ll try to explain this and pain management in the simplest terms possible.

What is the Bodytool?

It’s a massage instrument featuring 2 stones measured between 6.8-7.2 on the Mohs scale. This rates hardness of stone. Diamonds are 10. Quartz and greenstone are used. The greenstone is used for the hard Myofascial adhesions and scar tissue and quartz more for recovery and healing. The stones are harder than any tissue in the human body. Therefore you can glide around and through muscle tissue easily until you come across something that is not quite right. If you come across this you then use the Bodytool to work out the problem within the tissue. Yes, sometimes this really does hurt. But as soon as you stop working the tissue the pain instantly stops. If you do not come across anything that does not feel right then you just carry on to other parts of the body.

Most people seem to have some constant niggling injury that just never seems to go away or that keeps coming back. Why does this happen? Okay. Let’s picture your entire body encased in a Spiderman suit, or a full body stocking. Head to toe. Now what happens as we travel through life. Twisted ankles, shin splints, cuts, bruises, fingers in doors, dislocated shoulders, broken bones, dead legs, car accidents, falls off bikes, out of trees, burns, surgeries….well I could go on and on. I think you get what I mean. So now at each one of those sites of injury grab your Spiderman suit or stocking, pull a bit of it away from your skin, twist it and put a rubber band around that area. Keep doing this until you have done this at every site of injury in your lifetime. Now try to get a picture of how your suit/stocking has been pulled out of shape. Look at the tension lines around the different areas of your body. Picture a spider’s web with one side pulled outwards. Look how it distorts the shape. This is what happens to your body. Then we continue to run, lift weights, do Pilates / yoga, play sport etc and wonder why suddenly our knee hurts, or our elbow, our wrist, our shoulder, our back, our neck etc. The muscles around, above, and below these sites of pain are under constant tension so eventually something has to give.

Also. In the womb at 6.5 weeks old the foetus develops the sense of touch. From then on it develops patterns of muscle behaviour called "engrams". We use them to stand up and sit down, even to stand in ways that express who and what we like and don't like. For example when we say someone is a pain in the neck they usually really are, that's why we say it. We use the same system to avoid moving in ways that touch off pain responses.In doing this we run a very real risk that eventually we will turn our pain recognition systems off altogether so the pain and the surrounding tissue goes numb. However the pain doesn't just go away. It tries another way to get your attention by referring the pain somewhere else, and we end up with less and less use of our hands necks, muscles, limbs, jaws, lungs. . . . the list goes on. Familiar?

What if those rubber bands could be released and our body returns to its proper shape. What if the adhesions between muscles and tissue that restrict our movement and flexibility could be broken down. What if your muscles could return to be nice soft, pliable and springy like they are supposed to be. Not hard, tight and in agony. How can a shoulder or elbow ever truly heal if there is constant tension from a former broken wrist that never gets released. You may get relief for a short period but it will eventually return or even manifest itself at another area of your body.

So this is what I do. I perform a body audit where I map out your major sites of injury, adhesions, scar tissue, scars, and pain. Then from fingers and toes start exposing them to your brain so that your body can then heal itself.

If you know of anyone with ageless injuries or who forever seems to be in some form of pain then get them to contact me.

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Chris's visit

5/4/2011

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The 18th, 19th and 20th April were amazing days spent learning the craft that Chris has developed over the past 15 years with his bodytool. We saw 18 people in 1 1/2 hour blocks and some of the results of the soft tissue work were astonishing. We helped people with achilles problems, back issues, knee injuries, shoulder niggles and chronic pelvic pain disorders. Most have been back for a second visit already which is amazing considering some of the treatment is extremely painful. The lady who returned for her second pelvic treatment has had her life changed. Only People who have this condition will understand this!!! Chris is a fountain of knowledge about the body and how it reacts to pain over the years. People do not believe what he can do until they finally get in and get treated by him. Now I have a large part of that knowledge and am keenly looking forward to helping people remove their pain FOR EVER!
He also showed me many more tricks on how to train people on the Bodywall and some new stretches that will benefit people immediately. It's a hard product to describe how it works but once you try it people get it straight away. The second time they get it even more and train and stretch harder. Hence better results in strength, aerobic, anaerobic endurance and flexibility after each work out. Don't believe me? Come try for yourself.

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The 'Magic Stick'

1 Year on. Happy Birthday BodywallNorthShore.

What is the Bodytool, Pain Management and how does it work?

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