DFR Therapy

Straight-down pressure doesn’t reorganize tissue. It compresses it. Skin, fascia, muscles all get sandwiched and pushed together. The tissue deforms, the circulatory and nervous system react, and sensation increases. Patients and clients may feel better after aggressive work, then the same problems return. They often have the same tight spots and the same injuries keep recurring. This video uses high frequency ultrasound (HFUS) to demonstrate on a calf muscle the precise effects and impact that compression, unidirectional scraping with tools, and bidirectional tensioning of the skin. You can clearly see that precise bidirectional skin tension with minimal compression promotes shear/reorganizing forces that are far superior to downward compression, and unidirectional scraping techniques for treating damaged and injured tissue.