Myofascial Release Therapy in New York City

Myofascial Release Therapy is a name given to include all modalities that loosen and help relax tight muscles, tissue and fascia responsible for causing tightness, spasm and pain within the musculoskeletal system.

There are many techniques, machines, lasers, lotions & potions that claim to offer relief to your pain, tight muscles, trigger points (MTrPs) and other myofascial tension issues.

Dr. Kaminsky uses techniques perfected over his nearly 25 years of treating patients. Most common and most effective modality used in the hands-on session is craniosacral therapy, combined with light massage, gentle stretching, when needed, and mobilization to achieve a greater range of motion (ROM) and decreased pain.

Dr. Kaminsky also offers Myofascial Release Therapy, manual hands-on pain management and sports injury care. Myofascial Release is the treatment of soft tissue of the musculoskeletal system.

Myo – means Muscle. Fascial – means tissue or a band of tissue, Release – means letting go, relaxing

Therefore, Myofascial Release Therapy literally means the relaxation of muscular tissue via physical hands-on intervention.

Another effective modality to treat myofascial issues and trigger points is sound vibrational healing via tunning forks from Biosonics as taught by Dr. John Beaulieu, PhD.  Dr. Kaminsky has been implementing Dr. John’s methods for nearly ten years to treat muscular trigger points and to achieve a myofascial release.

A very safe, gentle and very effective hands-on approach for Myofascial Release is Craniosacral Therapy (CST).

CST facilitates a natural response of the body where the tight soft tissue structure softens and relaxes without the need of painful stretching, or pressing, or any other painful technique. CST is a safe and effective natural body-work hands-on system that facilitates your body’s natural muscle relaxation and healing response.

With CST the practitioner lays his or her hands on the areas that are experiencing tissue tightness, muscle stiffness or trigger points and waits for the muscles to respond which is to soften. After some time of having the practitioner’s hand placement on the parts of your body that need to soften; the practitioner moves on to the next part of needed Myofascial tissue release. Usually, the hand placement goes on to the origin and insertion points of particular muscles being treated.

Depending on the severity and resistance of the muscle determines the length of time needed to facilitate a positive tissue response (relaxation of the muscle). Craniosacral Therapy is a popular technique that offers great results when done by a skilled and experienced practitioner like Dr. Kaminsky.

Contact Dr. Kaminsky and schedule your appointment for immediate relief of your pain.

Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy (click here): a technique that treats trigger points or muscle knots (tight regions in muscles typically caused by overuse, inflammation, trauma, nerve issues) and resolves musculoskeletal pain and other ailments.

There exists within the human body a fibrillar network of total tissue continuity. Our bodies are global structures with a three dimensional “constitutive” architecture. And the organs are a functional adaptation to the network. Groups of cells with specific, specialized physiological functions are assembled within a multifibrillar network to form the organs. The cells are embedded in and supported by the fibrillar framework. This basic architectural pattern is the same for all the organs, as well as for the skin, fat, muscles, bones, tendons, nerves and vessels.

The primary tissue framework of the body has been named by French Medical Doctor, Jean-Claude Guimberteau, he called it; Micro-Vacuolar Collagenic Absorbing System (MVCAS), and it is found everywhere continuously throughout the body. It is a sliding tissue network which enables movement between adjacent anatomical structures in living tissue.

In living tissue, it is not the cell that provides the link but a profusion of fibers, fibrils and microfibrils. The body is shaped by a fibrillar network at every level, from macroscopic to microscopic, and from superficial to deep. This fibrillar network plays an important role in shaping the substance of the body. The cells are shaped and molded by the extracellular system in which they are embedded.

Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy (click here): a technique that treats trigger points or muscle knots (tight regions in muscles typically caused by overuse, inflammation, trauma, nerve issues) and resolves musculoskeletal pain and other ailments.

Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.

After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.

At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.

At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.

In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.

Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.

And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.

Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.