Forgotten Muscles Massage and Bodywork

To have the pleural dome ligaments and related fascia and pleural worked find a Barral Institute Visceral Manipulation therapist trained in level 4.

References used for my drawings came from Serge Paoletti's The Fasciae Anatomy, Dysfunction, and Treatment; Brizon and Castaing's Les Feuillets d'Anatomie Fascicule XIV, Thorax taken from the VM4 Manual; and the Barral Institute's Visceral Connective Tissue Support System Pocket Guide.

The quick embodiment of the ribs, fascia, and pleura pulling on each other was inspired by the Franklin Method teacher training for the lungs I attended these last 2 weeks. I had these pictures ready to go 2 weeks ago but I wanted to see if the lectures would add anything to this video so I'm glad I waited!

While studying the topic I came upon a fun article called About the Ligaments of the Pleural Dome by Fred Scheiterbauer on osteopathicresearch.org that I highly recommend reading if you're interested. He goes into the different words and phrases people have used for the ligaments and fascia associated with them.

I have found that releasing the vetebropericardial ligaments helps release stubborn scalenes (anterior neck muscles) that have plagued my clients with chronic neck pain. These ligaments and the ligaments of the pleural dome of the lung (I'll make another video on that in the future) have been game changing in finding the root cause of clients' recurrent neck pain.
This information was derived from U.K. Osteopathic Doctor Serge Paoletti's book The Fasciae Anatomy, Dysfunction, and Treatment as well as the class Visceral Manipulation 4- The Thorax developed by French Osteopathic Doctor Jean-Pierre Barral.

Propioceptors are sensory nerves that tell our body where it is in space, speed and direction of our movement, amount of effort being used to do a movement, and amount of tension.

This technique is called tapping in shiatsu or tapotement in Swedish massage. Each hand position is light and percussive and helps the brain map the area of the body more efficiently to reduce tension and improve movement.

We're doing this technique on one side of our partner's back today to give them a side to side comparison to measure effectiveness, but traditionally you'd have one hand on each side of the spine to tap both sides at the same time.

(My husband only let me do 1 take so sorry if my talking is a little messy 😆)