What is Connective Tissue Massage?
Massage 162, Nov:54-57, 2009, by John Latz Overall this is a good article which gives the general review of the connective tissue structure, function and basic principles of connective tissue massage. What troubles us is a grave mistake we see from articles to articles published on various subjects in massage literature. This mistake is fragmentation of the profession. Without any doubt these articles split our great profession into a countless number of modalities which very frequently placed by their authors conflict with each other. This fragmentation kills the profession in the eyes of clients and what is equally important in the eyes of other health practitioners. Some passages in this article do exactly that. To quote: “Having practiced fascial manipulation for 25 years, my hands do not readily remember how to massage muscles” and “Proper technique for working with muscles will not change the fascia. Understanding this ensures I am either working on the muscle or fascia, but not
