At the Winchester Institute we like to keep up on the latest musculoskeletal treatments. This past week one of our licensed massage therapists came to me with some information on a new soft tissue technique called Yamuna Body Rolling.
Yamuna Body Rolling is a soft tissue treatment that uses four to six inch balls and claims to lengthen and tone muscles, decompress joints, while reorganizing the body. This caught my interest because we currently use foam rolls for certain soft tissue treatments. Due to this fact, it seems that YBR may fit right in at the Winchester Institute.
The technique’s creator states that YBR has three distinctive features:
1) The specialist uses his or her hands on one side of the body and the ball on the other.
2) The ball acts as a fulcrum for applying sustained traction outward, away from the center of the body.
3) The combination of traction plus working both sides of the body at the same time results in equal release, front-to-back and side-to-side, bringing muscle groups into balance.
Many therapists state YBR makes working on clients much easier. The therapists state that they can obtain a deeper release on their clients with relatively little effort and no strain to their hands or wrists.
The goal for this treatment is to balance the client’s body so all the muscles – front, back and sides – have an equal range of motion, length and tone.
At the Winchester Institute we work on finding imbalances that are causing dysfunction in the body and focus on eliminating them as soon as possible. This relieves abnormal stresses from the joints preventing abnormal wear and tear and pain. This technique is very interesting and more research will be done to see if this is something we want to offer at the Winchester Institute.