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The 'Magic Stick'

5/26/2012

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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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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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Heat. The Enemy of Recovery!

6/7/2011

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Heat, the enemy of recovery!

Myofascial pain is recognised today as one of the most common causes of musculo- skeletal pain. By understanding more about fascia and how it works, you will understand why certain injuries happen, and keep happening. So it will be easier for you to get the best out of your body, recover faster and stop injuring and re injuring yourself.

Fascia is important.

It has properties that let you use it for lots of tasks. Fascia is a gel so it can be liquid like jelly on the stove, or like jelly that’s been forgotten in the back of the refrigerator for a few weeks, so hard that you can’t get a knife into it.

It’s the tough outer skin of the muscle, (the muscle sheath) it’s also the glue that glues muscles tendons and ligament to bone, plus it’s the slimy stuff that lets muscles slide past each other when you’re using them.

If you’ve ever wondered what stops weightlifters muscles from bursting when they lift those hundreds of kilo’s or why your muscles form the shapes they do? It’s this tough stuff called myofascia.

For shortening recovery times and reducing injury one of the most useful techniques is helping you to understand that being nice to your Myofascia is essential to injury recovery and why fascia hates heat.

Fascia also combines with Collagen reinforcing strands to form a fabric that has a tensile strength 10 times that of steel. Because it can withstand up to 140 kg/cm2 of pressure the body uses Fascia to surround and protect all your organs and muscles. By comparison car tyres inflate to around 2 kg/cm2. Fascia is strong enough to crush bone and running or jumping on cold fascia is a major contributor to shin splints and many other stress fractures.
By learning to work with fascia, you will rehab faster and have lots more energy for the fun things in life.

Why you may be 'Showering yourself to a standstill'.

Myofascia is a gel and when gels are heated they liquefy. You can heat up your fascia naturally with exercise or unnaturally with things like heat packs, hot showers or spa’s. Many treatment plans that have no knowledge of fascia and how it works recommend this, we believe that’s a big mistake! Because when you heat a gel it must eventually cool down and, the more you heat gels the harder they set when they cool. After a really hard workout you can be stiff the next day, stuck fascia is part of the reason.

Making friends with your Myofascia.

If you use hot water on fascia to get relief from pain or tension. It just gets more and more addictive. Over time you will need hotter and hotter showers or heat packs to get any relief and then hours later when your fascia sets, you will blame it on what you’re doing at the time. Lets be really clear if you are having a hot shower in the morning and feeling terrible later on.

You probably did it to yourself!

Think about making jelly then keep heating and setting it for a few weeks, months, years. If you’re already using hot showers and heat packs you already know you need more and more heat.

There is a way out of this cycle. Stop having hot showers.

If you turn up injured at our clinics we insist you agree to follow this advice, or we don’t even start treatment.

Common excuses for using heat.

If you think you need hot water to get clean after work, hot water actually opens the pores wider and lets dirt get further in so when the skin cools it’s trapped underneath. Warm is best for cleaning skin, and if you think you need it to warm up in the winter, you don’t, your body was never designed to be put in hot water, for showering, pleasant warm is ok. Just not hot!
Thousands of case histories tell us over time you will find this is, one of the best things you’ve ever done for your overall health. You will find you can work (or play) longer, be less tired and have limbs that move smoothly everyday, and be able to do lots more things and get way less tired. Try it for 3 weeks. The positive change in how your body moves will surprise you.

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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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Chris Toal. Inventor of Bodywall in Sydney.

4/17/2011

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Chris is in Sydney for 3 days commencing Monday 18th. He will be providing further training to me on the many benefits of the Bodywall. He is also the inventor of 'bodytool' and 'scarsaway'. These stone massage tools are very effective in finding and helping to eliminate old scar tissue, adhesions and other soft tissue injuries. My clients and myself are looking forward to finally getting rid of these constant niggles. Most chronic pain conditions can be treated with these tools as well as the softening of burn scars. I am looking forward to a very busy and informative week.
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