Loosen the tissue
that's holding you back
Fascia is the connective tissue that wraps and connects every muscle in your body. When it tightens or thickens — from injury, poor posture, repetitive strain, or everyday stress — it restricts movement and creates the dull, hard-to-pinpoint tension and pain many patients live with for months or years.
Myofascial release uses sustained, targeted manual pressure to loosen these restrictions — but it's not just for everyday tension. It's equally effective for sports injuries and for the scar tissue that develops in muscles, tendons, ligaments, and around joints after an injury. The technique works directly through the peripheral nervous system: sustained pressure stimulates the mechanoreceptors within your soft tissue — the sensors your nervous system uses to set and hold muscle tension — and helps down-regulate tension patterns that other methods don't reach.
Myofascial release and Active Release Technique (ART) are equally valuable — just suited to different situations. Most of Dr. John's patients actually receive a blended approach, combining myofascial release, ART, and other techniques as needed. The mix depends on where the injury is and how your body responds to care from visit to visit — treatment here is organic and adaptive, not a fixed protocol.
Serving San Mateo since 2010