Painless Dynamic Variable Controlled Tissue Manipulation  Techniques for Bodyworkers

Stripping is a continuous pulling motion.  Generally you begin at the muscle insertion point and slide the tool the termination point.  The power is set to mid depth. This action will lengthen the muscle fiber improving range of motion.   Cross fiber application can be applied to break up scar tissue using a beaded glass tool. Shearing on the other hand is a shallow movement.  The decompressor is set to a shallow depth and set to variable pressure.  The  oval body tools are gently rotated on the release cycle and held for the pulling cycle.  This action release the myofascial layer reducing restrictions in the fascia structures.

Strip, Shear, Pump or Pull Soft Tissue Structures

Soft rehabiliting using stripping and shearing of the soft tissue.

Variable tissue decompression is used to re hydrate, vascularize, release, extend, reduce blockages, and stimulate the natural tissue renewal process.  The P-2 tissue decompressors are variably controlled and can go deeper painlessly than manual therapies for soft tissue rehabilitation.  Tissue decompression is powerful tool for massage therapists working in therapeutic applications.

As bodyworkers we do not heal soft tissue.  The body is always trying to achieve a normal pain free state.  If there is pain in the soft tissue there is something interfering with the natural pain free state.  Woodworkers can remove the interferences and the pain.

Decompression Massage Therapy (DMT) is a method of using negative pressure to reduce  interferences resulting from adhesion’s, internal scar tissue from ancient wounds, restrictions in the myofascia, and chronic muscle constriction from stress or postural issues.  Interferences within the soft tissue may reduce tissue function,  inhibiting normal healing often resulting in pain.
Soft tissue interferences may result from nerve impingement, restricted vascular profusion, accumulation of toxins, excess fluid retention, chronic inflammation or disorganized collagen all which inhibit normal function within the fascia, joints, muscles and tendons.
DMT therapists specialize in treating injuries and ailments in the soft tissue areas by applying variable negative pressure throughout the affected soft tissue.  The practice of using negative pressure to normalize soft tissue dates back beyond recorded history, with the use of fire and animal horns, followed by Chinese fire cupping, to the modern dynamically controlled sub-atmospheric therapy of today.
Modern Decompression Massage Therapy did not evolve until the success of the Russian clinical trials in the mid 80′s.  These trials proved the science behind these ancient therapies and paved the way for modern tissue healing science of the sub-atmospheric therapies of today.  More than 500 clinical papers written in the past 10 years on the subject paved the way for its current use in modern medicine.
The bodywork application of this new therapy is commonly referred to as “pain lifting”.  Pain lifting controls the power of negative pressure, the depth of penetration, the total surface area of tissue decompression and the type of applied force including; constant pull for fibrous tissue, pumping for fluid tissue, shear for releasing the myofascial restrictions, and stripping for breaking fibrous restrictions within the soft tissue.
This modern bodywork therapy requires a FDA Class l soft tissue decompressor that utilizes multiple large body tools. The use of multiple tools is aided by automatic connectors and non-kinking surgical tubing. Therapist control the speed and depth of soft tissue penetration using touch screen controls.  The therapy delivers variable lateral and direct force to the tissue by pulling, pumping, stripping and shearing.
DMT therapist deliver controlled forces to the soft tissue to remove interferences within the tissue aiding the body’s effort to restore the natural pain free state.

Decompression Massage Therapy (DMT) is not a tactile massage, rather it is a powerful tissue stimulation and tissue manipulation techniques that applies variable negative pressure using specialized tools to the soft tissue structure. The application of negative pressure has been shown to reduce the time to heal soft tissue dramatically.

• History of negative pressure therapies.
• The many types of negative pressure therapies; sub-atmospheric, reverse massage, vacuum therapy, Decompression Massage Therapy, and light manual forms like meridian cupping.
• Clinical evidence supporting the use of negative pressure tissue healing therapy.
• The mechanics of DMT.
• The tool types: tissue pains, appendage tools, strippers, reverse massage tool, and body tools.
• The powerhead: piston powered to multi-tool application.
• Auto connecting system for one hand operation.
• Medical grade connectors.
• Four basic application methods: pulling, pumping, stripping, shearing.
• Discuss the major applications for negative pressure therapy; wellness, therapeutic, and aesthetic.
• Infrared and DMT – Turning up the heat and results.
• Pain Lifting – Specific therapies for pain. Cellulite therapies that actually work. Detoxing with DMT.
• Marketing collateral DMT.
• What our therapist say about DMT.
• What their clients say about DMT.
• Unattended DMT applications and techniques for Chiropractors.
• FDA Class I Certification – Why does it matter?
• Getting started with DMT

“They often come to me after extensive testing from the medical community”, says Martha Johnson DMT. At this point its obvious the tissue is the issue. Negative pressure tissue therapy is used by massage therapists, chiropractors, and surgeons to aid the body in healing the tissue problem. The principles are application are simple. Choose the tools and application points. then apply variable negative pressure to the affected tissue watching the color. There are four basic moves; stripping, pulling, pumping and shearing. The choice depends on the location and condition of the tissue.

Experienced DMT therapist can read the colors in light skinned clients easily. Pain Lifting differs from stripping, pumping, pulling and shearing. Pain lifting is a cross between pumping and pulling. It consists of long strong pulls which extend deep into the tissue. The tissue is filled with blood, manipulated, re-hydrated and force the release any accumulated waste. The negative pressure is applied though special flanged cups can go deep into the tissue without producing pain. Try DMT today.

The majority of the body is made up of soft tissue. The term soft tissue refers to tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and organs of the body, not being bone. The substances inside soft tissue are collagen, elastin and ground substance. Soft tissue requires a very high level of hydration to function normally.

The elastin produces stiffness. Collagen fibers are somewhat inextensible and when taunt produce tissue stiffness and limits tissue deformation protecting the tissues from injury. Visit Wikipedia.org for more complete discussion of soft tissue.

Problems with the soft tissue that produce pain, restriction of movement or a negative appearance such as love handles, bun muffins etc. can be changed naturally. Soft tissue is regenerative and can remodel reacting to chemical and mechanical forces. The rate renewal is proportional to these stimuli. Changes in the level of mechanical load can induce remodeling of diseased or injured tissue. We are going to discuss how to use mechanical force to stimulate these changes in tissue function and the resulting health of the tissue.

It is important to remember that these structures are highly fluid. The body is approximately 85% water. To produce a dramatic mechanical stimulation of the tissues we must impact these fluidized structures to stimulate the body to remodel. This remodel is a natural healing process that first restores health and then renews the natural shape and beauty of the tissue structure.

Normally these tissues are manipulated by hand by a trained therapist or doctor. But the manipulation tissue decompression is far more powerful in their ability to remodel the structures. The changes we are initiating are produced by four basic mechanical forces pumping, pulling, stripping and shearing. These powerful mechanical forces stimulate fibroblast production, a key component in tissue renewal or remodeling.

Tissue pumping forces an intensive profusion of the vascular structures flushing the tissue with fresh oxygenated blood.

Tissue pulling can be applied directionally drawing fluids like edema and accumulated waste away from the injury site to the lymph nodes to aid in removal.

Tissue stripping can be applied cross fiber or longitudinally. Stripping can reduce or eliminate blockages caused by adhesions or scar tissues. These blockages result in the dehydration of the ground substance in the tissue which interrupts normal function. Adhesions can trap nerves and produce pain when movement occurs.

Tissue shearing is a diagonally applied force that can reduce adhesion of the myofascial structures. This is the white layer on chicken just under the skin and it should move like a stocking or you will hear about it.

To recap the goal of Decompression Massage Therapy is to use the mechanical force of negative pressure to mechanically stimulate tissue healing. This is accomplished by removing barriers to normal tissue function such as blockages like scar tissue and adhesions, to return blood to the affected area, to remove accumulated fluid waste and to rehydrate the ground substance.

Decompression Massage Therapy aids the body to remodel the tissue structure reducing or eliminating soft tissue pain. The normalization of soft tissue improves the aesthetics of the tissue naturally improving tissue shape and pliability. Healthy tissue is a more beautiful tissue. Tissue decompression is a valuable tool for therapeutic, aesthetic and wellness therapies. We will discuss each of these mechanical forces delivered by this form sub-atmospheric tissue therapy in a future post.

Tissue injuries can occur from a variety of direct or indirect sources. Direct injury is the result of a single incident resulting from a blunt trauma or sudden overload. An example of a direct injury would be running into the coffee table.  Another example would be post surgical tissue trauma from a repair.  Indirect tissue injuries are produced by repeated stress to the soft tissue.  Examples would be chronic stress, behavioral tissue trauma and disease produced trauma.

The result of tissue injury can be tears, bruising, bleeding, tissue toxicity, dehydration, scarring, and nerve damage. Failure of these injuries to heal properly often results in pain.  These injured tissues may contain blockages from scar tissue, adhesion’s, or chronic muscle contraction.  The result is reduced blood flow to the tissue and reduced waste elimination.  The blockages in muscle tissue may prevent their normal function.  The tissue often dehydrates reducing the cells ability to communicate anything but pain. Pain is simply a cry for assistance.

The process of assisting the healing of damaged soft tissue structures from within can be greatly aided by the use of variable negative pressure.  A negative pressure generator can deliver the variable pressure through a large selection of body tools. This powerful form of tissue rehabilitation is referred to as Decompression Massage Therapy (DMT).  DMT roots are in ancient cupping therapy. Cupping was used to move body energy.  DMT is used for tissue manipulation to aid in rehabilitation.

DMT manipulates soft tissue by pumping, stripping, extending and shearing soft tissue depending on the application. The negative pressure painless penetrates to the bone.  The process manipulates the tissue producing cross fiber breaking, longitudinal stripping and myofascial shear in order to break up blockages and adhesion’s, eliminate accumulated waste and dramatically increasing circulation to the treated areas.

DMT produces a more powerful range of tissue manipulations than could be accomplished by hand. There are more than 500 clinical studies that document the power of negative pressure to heal soft tissue. There is a growing network of therapist and doctors now certified in this powerful tissue manipulation procedure.

Pumping tissue uses alternating negative pressure to creates a powerful fluid exchange throughout the permeable body tissues.  This action lifts and elongates the cellular structure and removing adhesion’s that cause tissue dehydration pain and loss of function.  The alternating negative pressure creates a movement that is essential for breaking up blockages and releasing the accumulated waste from the tissues.

Stripping utilizes a constant negative pressure providing constant stretching and extension of the long muscle structures.  This action stimulates blood flow in the surrounding soft tissues as well as the muscle fibers.  The stripping movement drains the waste accumulated in the tissue to the lymph nodes for elimination.

Shearing muscle fibers involves attaching to the muscle with a tool operating under a negative pressure.  The tissue is then twisted to release the myofascia and rehydrate the muscle and connective tissues.

The process of pumping produces an immediate vascular profusion of the body tissues. The stripping and shearing eliminate waste and constricted tissues that are responsible for lack of healing and pain in otherwise healthy person.  Decompression Massage Therapy is a powerful tool in natural body healing therapy. The therapy not only normalizes the body in a natural way but the resulting healing results in dramatic improvement to the appearance of the soft tissue.  As a result it is a natural beauty therapy.

Tissue decompression has been in use for thousands of years using fire to create the negative pressure required to normalize the tissues.  Todays tissue decompressors offer more controlled pressure and a wide range of tools to cover from face to feet.

Reverse massage for maximum benefit.   So how do you reverse a massage.  Reverse massage is simple, rather than compress the tissue you decompress the soft tissue.  The results are dramatic.  Compression is limited by the discomfort that results.  Decompression can reach the core without causing any discomfort.

The use of negative pressure dates back to mans earliest times where he used animal horns smoothed on a rock and held over a fire to create negative pressure.  It has evolved over time to modern clinical wound therapy utilizing negative pressure units that reduce wound healing time by half. These units reverse the pressure over the wound site from atmospheric pressure to sub-atmospheric pressure.

Hundreds of clinical trials testify to the power of negative pressure to stimulate the healing power of the body by increasing circulation, hydrating tissues, breaking up blockages such as adhesion’s and scar issues. Reverse massage therapies benefits can be found in massage therapy, chiropractic therapy and physical therapy.

Tissue decompression therapies are not new.  Pain lifting is an ancient therapy.  Archeologist date tools used to deliver the negative pressure far back in our history, more than 10,000 BC.  Our ancestors knew how to break off animal horns, smooth them on stone, held them briefly over fire to remove the air and  how to deliver the negative pressure to the body  Negative pressure could draw out poisons, swelling, puss and even break up intestinal blockages.

Hippocrates talked about the power of these methods, the Egyptians wrote about them on the walls of their tombs.  It was the Chinese that made the process well known. Today the power of negative pressure therapy is well documented in more than 500 medical clinical trials.  Its largest medical application is post surgical wound healing where it has gained the reputation of reducing the time to heal a wound by half.  It is only in the last decade when the body tools became available that it’s benefit for bodywork became widely known.
Modern decompression massage therapy (DMT) differs from it’s ancestor, cupping, in several important ways.  The first way they differ is application.  Cupping uses small hand heated glass tools.  The small tools do decompress but they are mainly used for meridian balancing. They do not work on large areas of tissue or deliver a variable decompression.  DMT process requires a powerful powerhead, mufti-connectors and large body tools.  Modern tissue decompressors are suitable for large tissue manipulation without pain. Multiple tools can be used at the same time and the variable pressure is completely controllable.
The reduction of pain is just one of the many benefits of this powerful therapy.

Painlifting is based on the clinical findings resulting from the Russian clinical trials. The trials were to assess the benefits of negative pressure applied to a wound site. The results revolutionized the wound healing industry. Today negative pressure wound therapies can be found in use in all major U.S. hospitals (sub-atmospheric therapy). The application of variable negative pressure to soft tissue delivers many therapeutic benefits. The most obvious benefit is dramatic increase in circulation. This is obvious to the observer by the rapid change in skin color as blood is drawn into the affected area by the negative differential pressure. The pressure penetrates deep into the tissue and on the decompression stroke extends the tissues only to release them on the release of the negative pressure and return of the atmospheric pressure. The benefits to this pumping action is the destruction of tissue blockages that take the form of adhesion’s, scar tissue and tissue constrictions. The removal of these blockages restores blood flow and re-hydration of the soft tissue. It only takes a few minutes before the muscles relax and the pain often abates. See the videos on the DMTHealth Channel on YouTube for more information.

The process of healing soft tissue and relieving back pain can be greatly aided through the use of soft tissue decompression. The application of negative pressure relieves the atmospheric load placed on the body by the atmospheric pressure (weight of the atmosphere). In the surgical field this process is known as sub-atmospheric tissue therapy. It is the premier therapy for post surgical wound therapy and reduces the time required for an open wound to heal by half.

For Chiropractors the application for lower back therapy can be applied automatically. The attachments are simply placed on specific regions of the tissue and the automatic powerhead does the work and notifies the staff when the process is complete. What takes place is a variable decompression of the soft tissue structure resulting in several physical actions. The first is tissue extension. The muscles are extended stretching the fibers breaking adhesion’s in the tissue, the tissues are filled with blood drawn by the lower than normal pressure within the tissue. Waste products such as fluids from swelling and tissue from scaring are dislodged and free to move to the area of low pressure being created by the powerhead.

The results in tissue healing are documented in over 500 clinical trials conducted on tissue healing. The healing rate is dramatically accelerated and the level of pain is often reduced. The lower back treatments require from 10 – 20 minutes. With a therapists the therapy can be applied to a far wider range of symptoms. The tools set provides for tissue extension, stripping and shearing. These actions are effective for an endless list of soft tissue injuries including scar tissue, painful tissue following surgery, trigger points, fybromyalgia to name a few.

In recent years the medical profession has just begun to realize the healing power of Tissue Decompression.

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Repetitive motion, injury and surgery can result in the formation of scar tissue in the muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and joints.  Scar tissue is dead fibrotic tissue also called adhesions.  The best way to reduce the scar tissue is through the use of Decompression Massage Therapy.  

Decompressing the scar tissue slowly and painlessly breaks down the scar tissue while increasing circulation to the dead area.  These adhesions have restricted normal blood, and energy flows resulting in dehydration.    Tissue decompression normalizes the tissue restoring function and eliminating pain.

Key words: Scar tissue, tissue dehydration, inflammation, adhesions, fibrotic tissue, pain, soft tissue.

Tendinitis is inflammation, irritation and swelling of a tendon.  It occurs in the elbow, heel, shoulder or wrist.   The tendons are fibrous structures respond quickly to stimulation and extension.  One approach is to apply heat and then decompress the tissue with a glide tool running along the length of the tendon.  This will remove any accumulated fluids, remove blockages and restore circulation. The tissue can become dehydrated, scared even calcified all leading to painful conditions.

Tissue decompression or decompression massage therapy as some call it is a modern version of an ancient healing therapy. This powerful negative pressure therapy reaches deep within the body leaving no cell untouched.

Keywords:  Tendinitis, pain, massage therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation therapy.

Scar tissue can lead to chronic pain.  Deep inside the body there are few alternatives to resolve it.  One natural way to address the process is with negative pressure. Negative pressure can penetrate through the layers that make up the soft tissue structure.  It is here the problem lives.

Scar tissue restricts normal motion of fibers and reduces fluid and energy transmission creating hot spots of pain.  These hot spots can be static, not requiring motion to activate or dynamic, requiring motion to activate.   Scar tissue dehydrates generating pain. Pain generates a muscle contraction response which results in stress restrictions in the muscle and myofascial structures further wrenching down on its victim like a python.

Surgery will only produce more scars, exercise does little to break it up, and hand therapies would have to be so aggressive they could not be tolerated.  A natural solution is a process described as negative pressure macro deformation.  Negative pressure is applied lifting and shearing the tissues below.  This is accomplished with tool called a decompression massage device.  Amazingly since the therapy goes in reverse, pulling out of the body, it is a relatively painless therapy.  The scar tissue is stretched and torn.  This process is repeated in a series, and the body slowly metabolizes the waste tissue. 

Nerves are freed from the grip of the adhesions, fluids are drawn in rehydrating the tissue, muscles are stripped and lengthened helping to elongate the collagen that reforms from the process of tearing and rebuilding.  During the process fresh blood is continually pumped into this formerly barren zone.  The tissue begins to respond almost immediately although the entire process may take weeks or longer.  Therapists call this process “Pain lifting”, because it lifts the tissue far out of the body and often the pain with it.

Back pain can often be the result of soft tissue pain, such as chronically constricted muscles, nerves pinched in blockages in tissue or a variety of soft tissue problems.  Pain lifting is a method of using negative pressure and large body tools placed over the large muscle groups. 

The pressure is quickly reduced forcing the tissues to rise as high a 5” out of the body depending on the tissue.  Almost immediately the negative pressure is released and the tissue comes crashing down being pushed by the weight of the returning atmosphere.  This process continues as the tissues slowly release their chronic tension and lengthen, the blockages are forced out and blood is drawn in.  Even the pliability of the tissue relaxes and the pain soon relaxes as well.

Key words: tissue decompression, back pain, tissue pain, nerve pain, muscle pain, decompression massage therapy, negative pressure therapy, back therapy.

The origins of negative pressure tissue therapy are lost in antiquity.  Archeologist excavations confirm discovering tools used to provide this therapy dating back more than 10,000 years.  Egyptians described it on the walls of their tombs and Hippocrates recommended it use for a variety of purposes.

Ancient Form of Negative Pressure

So what was this ancient therapy, and why is it more important now than ever before.  The Ancient version was referred to as cupping.  Cupping is a static therapy and produces a static negative pressure in a small glass container that is paced over the tissue.  The negative pressure is produced when the container was held over an open flame for seconds exciting the air molecules inside.  The result was a low pressure inside the container that was immediately applied to the body.  The pressure transmitted through the porous skin into the body producing a therapeutic affect described in other posts.

Clinical Negative Pressure often Called Sub-atmospheric Therapy

The Russians planned to apply modern technology to the ancient concept and test it in a wound healing trial.  The new device would allow for control the intensity and rather than a single static pull as the ancient method provided they would use decompression pump, computer, controls and valves to create a dynamic version delivering a repeating cycles of pressure and recompression.  The Russians were not the first to accomplish this adaptation successfully, but they were the first to test its application of on healing traumatized soft tissue in a modern medical clinical trial for wound healing. 

Clinical Trials Confirm Success of Negative Pressure Therapy

The results of the trial on wound healing stunned the medical community, reducing the wound closure and subsequent healing time by half.  The result was a reduction in the number of infections previously experienced.  The race to the patent office was on, and today negative pressure therapies are a successful approach to wound healing covered by insurance.  In less than a decade this therapy evolved from an ancient therapy to a mainstream medical wound healing therapy.  I predict it will take less than a decade for the therapy to become a mainstay bodywork therapy for chiropractors, phisical therapist, massage theapist, alternative healing centers and other forms of bodywork therapist.

Negative Pressure Therapy Will Be The Workhorse of Natural Therapies

Tissue decompression is a  therapy powerful enough to reduce the time to heal a wound by half might just heal other soft tissue problems.  It does.  In fact it is the most powerful soft tissue healing tool available.  It can painless penetrate down to the cellular level.  It can pull waste free, irrigate tissue with fresh blood, stretch and extend muscle and connective tissue fibers, release tension in myofascial tissue; it breaks up blockages from scar tissue, adhesions and stress contractions and can rehydrate tissues normalizing fluid levels and electrical potential of the cells. 

Discover for yourself the power of tissue decompression therapy to literally lift pain from the body, equalize fluid levels, normalizes tissues and helps the body to return to normal function.

Key Words:  Negative pressure therapy, sub-atmospheric therapy, reverse massage, decompression massage therapy, transcutaneous tissue decompression or tissue decompression.

Tissue Normalization through Fluid Balancing
 

Tissue becomes abnormal from trauma. Trauma is the result of any physical injury such as an accident or surgery or an emotional injury that produces a shock such as stress which can impact the physical structures of the body just as physical injuries.
 

Traumatized tissue can be painful or limit its normal range of motion. Most old pains or ancient wounds can be normalized through a process of fluid balancing. The first use of these principles is lost in antiquity.  Archeologists have unearthed evidence of primitive tools suggesting the early methods were used more than 10,000 years ago.  Even more amazing is the fact that these highly effective principles have been lost to modern medicine in this country until recently.
 

The body is largely in a fluid state with more than 70% water content. Trauma often results in scar tissue deep below the surface, stress and shock can cause chronic constructions.  Scar tissue and constrictions work to dehydrate the tissue and restriction the normal movement of the fibers. The result is pain and loss of motion that can spread throughout the body and remain.
 

Traditional medical interventions are large ineffective against these ancient wounds because they attempt to treat the symptom rather than the cause.  Bodyworkers lack the tools to go deep and break up scar tissue or pump blood because the tissue in need of help is pain sensititive and the deep powerful therapy needed stimulate the normalization of the structures.
 

Pump ‘it, twist ‘it, and strip ‘it to heal it.  Tissue decompression is a painless natural therapy that uses a differential negative pressure to normalize tissues fluid levels and range of motion. Pumping the tissue will create a back and forth flow of fluids like trying to use a plunger to unstop a sink, lifting then compressing.�
 

The repeated compression then decompression acts as a plunger does for a sink, gently breaking up the blockage and freeing the sink to drain (normalize).  The same goes for your tissues as the excess accumulated and toxic waste fluids are flushed new blood is drawn in the tissue rehydrating the tissues and normalizing the structure.
 

The gentle twisting of the tissue with the tissue decompression tools releases the muscles and myofascial tissues from restraining stress contractions, breaking up blockages and scar tissue and restoring the bio-energy transmission throughout the body through the piezoelectric effect of healthy tissues.  Stripping the fibers extends the fibers in the functional direction of movement helping them to return to their normal length.�
 

When you combine these actions, it’s like the rhythm of a band all working together, each instrument playing a critical role. The resulting music here is circulation, tissue elongates of the soft tissues and myofascial tissues relieving the pressure on pain sensitive structures alleviating the symptoms of pain, and restoring the motion and health of the tissues.
 

Help the body to overcome the trauma by normalizing the tissues.  Remember, pump ‘it, twist ‘it, and strip ‘it to normalize it and the body will heal it.  Negative pressure therapies are used throughout the world and go by many names;  sub-atmospheric therapy, negative pressure therapy, tissue decompression therapy and decompression massage therapy to name a few.

How did it happen to begin with? Maybe you injured yourself during an athletic activity. Or maybe your injured because of the lack of activity. You could have injured your tissues with plain old stress slowly contracting and holding with the death grip of a Boa Constrictor. This will cause some problems. You could have had a surgery that could be a clue that there was some damage. Could you have just sat around and feed on toxic and improper foods until like water that does not flow the plumbing just stagnated and plugged up?

You may have just ran into the coffee table and never realized that that bruise was actually blood leaking from damage to tissue and all the components around the neighborhood. Even though you did not see it there is a scar left deep inside. There may be unhealed micro tears in the fibers of the muscle, myofascial or the connective tissues.

The result is like a sink that is stopped up. Leave the sink blocked up and it will begin to smell as it stagnates. How would you go about resolving the blockage and removing the odor and bacteria that has precipitated? If you were in medicine you would pour chemicals in and wait for the reaction with little regard for what these chemicals are doing to the sink, or the environment. The chemicals do not even work very well and are used because you may know any better or are just desperate for a solution. A plunger might be a better solution, just push ‘it, pull ‘it, flush ‘it, drain ‘it and heal ‘it.

This is the same process to heal the soft tissue. For untold time before the advent of writing archeologist confirm from ancient campsites that man used animal horns, removed and smoothed on rocks, and then the air was expelled in seconds by holding over a campfire. The horn was then immediately applied pushed against the body where it pulled deep inside stimulating fluid and tissue movement in an effort to break blockages, draw blood and drain fluids. This primitive method was called static decompression and was the forerunner to modern tissue decompression.

Discover how tissue decompression can reach deep inside your body, down to the cellular level removing accumulated waste, drawing in blood, extending the tissue, blasting blockages, and creating an unparallel tissue fluid equalization. You see the body is mostly fluid and all fluids must obey the laws of fluid dynamics. By creating a differential pressure inside the body, it is just like applying a plunger applied to the sink.

If you have not let the injury proceed to far, the resulting healing process will resolve the problem quickly. In just a a few applications of tissue decompression old wounds heal like plugged sinks and begin to drain, taking with them the junk and stagnation that was the source of the pain to begin with.

It is fair to say that our society has a large group of walking wounded, but it was not always that way.  Tissue pain has increased dramatically in the last century largely due to poor nutrition, lack of exercise, and the resulting tissue stagnation.

If we lived on a working ranch most of these problems would simply disappear.  But we sit in cars, at desks and in front of the TV.  Many of the traumas we incur are the result of past surgical procedures or injuries incurred because of our lack of conditioning or just from eating crap and sitting on our rear till we stagnant like water in a pond.  No matter how you got your pain. Pain is a pain.

Few practitioners understand that these problems reach down to the cellular level.  When you damage these fibrous tissues the injuries would not be visible even if you could see inside.  They represent unhealed micro tears in tissues that can lead to chronic inflammation as the body just keeps trying to heal the injury.  There is scar tissue formed by the rapid repair job the body did attempting to complete the repairs.  The problem is that the inflammation and the scar tissues cause further problems. 

There is irritation from the inflammation; there are blockages from the scar tissue with the resulting constricted tissue, limits on range of motion, tissue dehydration and the blockage of normal nerve transmission.  So the transmission you get it a warning.  Pain is a message that the job is not being done and the body needs some help to get through the unresolved issue.

So it sounds like you need to get in there and get things moving and healing.  But wait… you want to do this from the outside, right!  And you want to do it without a lot of pain, right!  And you want to do something that could affect all of these negative conditions previously described, right. 

The solution is so old no one even knows when the practice started.  Archeologist unearthed evidence of the tools to provide the therapy dating back more than 10,000 years in ancient camp sites.  Hippocrates wrote about it as a most powerful healing method.  Egyptians described it use in surgery on the walls of their tombs and the Chinese developed it into a medical solution for more than a billion people who use it every day.

So what is this natural de-stagnating therapy that is all natural, non-invasive, painless and still effective?  It is called transcutaneous tissue decompression (TTD) and in another post I will describe its full evolution from its ancient static to its modern dynamic form.  TTD goes by many other names today, as it is re-branded, patented and now even marketed.  In medicine it is referred to as sub-atmospheric therapy, or negative pressure therapy and it is used to reduce the healing time for post surgical wounds.  In the bodywork industry it is referred to as decompression massage therapy or the reverse massage and is used for aesthetic, wellness and therapeutic purposes.  There are literally dozens of other names used around the world for this proven therapy.

Discover how this therapy can lift you pain right out of your body when traditional approaches leave you among the walking wounded.  They don’t call these old wounds ancient wounds because they are quickly relieved by current practices.

Ancient therapies combine with technology to surprise scientist in clinical trials.  Tissue decompression is growing rapidly in the tissue restoration therapy segment.  Tissue decompression is the application of a variable negative differential pressure to the soft tissue resulting in a temporary fluid imbalance.   The tissue respond to the pressure change releasing toxins, filling withfresh blood, and rehydrating stagnant tissue.  As the pressure alternates tissue is stretched and lengthened breaking up stagnation, scar tissue, and other blockages in the tissue. 

Tissue decompression represents a total workout for the soft tissue equalizing fluid levels and activating the production of collagen and muscle.  The stimulation aids the body to equalize activating the healing process to resolve a wide variety of chronic soft tissue issues.  See decompression massage therapy, sub-atmospheric and negative pressure therapy. 

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Traditional medical treatments for tendonitis use a pharmacological approach to treating the injury accompanied by ice to control inflammation. But recent clinical trials have determined these injuries are the result of damage to the tendon at the cellular level. This damage results from micro tears in the connective tissue in and around the tendon.

The healing response presents extended inflammation which retards healing combined with a rapid and unorganized formation of repair tissues in an effort to quickly heal the dysfunctional tendon. One approach to assisting in the natural tissue repair process is called transcutaneous tissue decompression (TTD) therapy.

The treatment is applied with the use of a differential negative pressure applied along the functional direction of the tendon. This process accomplishes several objectives. The pressure extends to the cellular level reducing accumulated fluids, increasing vascular profusion within the entire tissue region and it aligning the the formation of the repair cells in an organized fashion. Clinical studies on negative pressure therapy have revealed its ability to reduce healing and rehabilitation time.

The treatment is performed by certified massage therapist, physical therapist or chiropractors using specialized tools that are moved firmly along the muscle and tendon. The adhesions can be prevented or quickly released where they are absorbed as the new tissue lays down in a health manner.

Howard Bailes is the manufacture of the FDA Class I DMS-2000 powerhead and tools used to treat a variety of soft tissue injuries. He can be reached at howard.bailes@gmail.com (713) 501-0075

Spinal decompression –spinal decompression is a non-invasive means of separating the .disc of the back. This separation reduces pressure between the disc and can relieve pain.  It is accomplished by gently pulling on the upper and lower body segments allowing the disc to temporarily separate.

Tissue decompression – a mechanical means of creating a differential pressure within the soft tissues. This negative pressure elongates the fibers of tissue, increases circulation, reduces accumulated fluids and stimulates the natural healing process. It is accomplished by creating a low pressure area which painlessly forces these changes in the tissue.

It is difficult for traditional therapies to resolve these ancient wounds.

Remnants of old injuries or surgeries.  These wounds can remain unresolved for years and continue to entrap nerves, block blood flow, retain waste, dehydrate tissues, and create friction limiting muscle and fascia movement .

The process to resolve these problems from scars and adhesions is one that has been around for thousands of years but lost to modern health care.  It is the use of negative pressure to gently reach deep inside the body pulling and stretching on all internal structures.  The process sets of a cascade of positive changes.  The affected area has long been in a state of stagnation.  Just look at standing water to see where that process leads.

The body is largely fluid and fluids all obey the law of fluid dynamics.  This law states that fluids in a permeable environment must pass through the membranes until the pressure equalizes.  This process stretches the tissues cross fiber or longitudinally.  The resulting increase in tension releases adhesions and scar tissue.  Blood is rushed to the area creating profusion in the dehydrated tissue.  The waste products are drawn to the interstitial space where the lymph can remove them. 

The therapy is painless and very stimulating to the body.   Visit www.youtube.com  and search for the dmthealth channel.  Select all videos to view more than 50 videos of various treatments provided by this powerful tissue healing therapy.

Clinical studies have shown that healing is a regenerative response at the cellular level.  Every attempt to heal a patient is an attempt to influence this process.  This influence can be chemical, biological, physical intervention or by stimulation.  We are going to discuss the latter.

Tissue stimulation has been shown to increase circulation, the movement of interstitial fluids, fiber recruitment and to boost the cellular rejuvenation process. Stimulation of soft tissues excites the fibroblasts which are responsible for collagen and muscle production.  Collagen and muscle tissue are critical to normal wound healing. 

Stimulation increases the supply of blood to the tissue and the movement of accumulated waste fluids away from the injury site.  Newly formed tissues are can be stimulated to align along there functional direction of movement.  Stimulating movement during the healing process insures the preservation of range of motion and the smooth operation of the various layers of interconnected tissues.

The process of tissue stimulation can be accomplished by numerous methods.  Common is the use of energy in the form of light to produce a heat source.  Heat is an effective option and is available from a number of sources.

Another option for stimulation is sound.  Sound can result from a variety of sources such as ultra sound devices or even radio frequency.   A popular method of stimulation is the use of electrical current.  This current varies in its composition and power a common example is a TENS unit.  Massage and stretching are proven manual methods of tissue stimulation and alignment.

Another option that has far greater power is applied negative differential pressure.  The mostly fluid body is a physical structure and as such must obey the laws of physics.  These laws require fluids mobilize in the direction of a low pressure area.  The sub-atmospheric pressure has the power to permeate the entire tissue structure and in the process rebalance fluids, encourage dramatic increases in circulation, literally strip excess fluids and to extend and move the tissues during their healing process. 

Tissue decompression is the only stimulation process discussed so dramatically affects all three critical healing points.  The therapy is natural, painless and even relaxing.  The result is a dramatic reduction in healing time. www.dmthealth.com

 

Healing is a natural response to tissue injury.  It begins with inflammation a swelling as fluids move into the area to stabilize the tissue. Inflammation should be gone within 72 hours if not it may need some help to leave the tissue.  The continued inflammation can retard the repair phase where the body begins to build repair tissues.  During this phase the body is producing collagen in a disorganized fashion focusing on speed of repair.

Poor circulation and excess fluids can lead to poor tissue formation and continuing pain.  This poor tissue can be damaged easily.  This is the critical time to stimulate the circulation and help the tissue relaign the tissues.  Moving helps but the most effective way is tissue decompression which draws in blood and pulls out excessive fluids retained in the traumatized tissue.  Tissue decompression can strip the tissue helping align the structural repairs. 

This is accomplished by using a small tool that delivers a negative pressure within the tissue.  This differential pressure increases circulation and profusion within the tissue.The tool is pulled along the muscle fiber helping to align the tissue formation by extending and aligning the fibers.

If the process does not progress inflammation can remain.  Every see a scar with a angry red line that wont leave.  This is a sign of trouble and may account for the pain.  The tissue may have blockages such as scar tissue and adhesions that reduce normal fluid transfer.  This results in dehydration which reduces cellular function and may result in more pain.  This type of soft tissue problem is often referred to as an ancient wound because people walk around with them for years.  These unresolved problems result from past surgery or trauma to the tissues.

Tissue decompression a powerful natural tissue healing therapy you can use on these type of painful tissue problems.  Tissue decompression goes by many names.  Negative pressure therapy, decompression massage therapy and sub-atmospheric therapy.  It is provided by massage therapists, chiropractors and physical therapists.

Tissue decompression is ideal for sports therapy because it is the most powerful source of delivering microcirculation to the injured tissue.

 

Microcirculation carries the blood to the tissues.  A blockage resulting from a trauma, surgery or stress can result in a reduction in blood flow and perfusion in the tissue.  Normal fluid balance is critical to contol swelling or edema, supply oxygen and nutrients, eliminate waste and reduce inflammation within the tissues.

Tissue decompression produces a differential  pressure that produces a imbalance within the tissue.  The mostly fluid tissues must act to equalize this inbalance as quickly as possible.  The result is a dramatic increase in circulation, rapid tissue profusion, leveling of fluids to rehydrate or dehydrate accumulated fluids.

In addition to the fluid equalization the tissue retraction of the fibrous tissue contributes  to the extension of muscle, tendons and ligaments, reduction of scar tissues and stimulating the fibroblast, resulting in the production of collagen and muscle tissue, a key structural componet in the healing process.

Differential pressure is a powerful painless,healing therapy that is natural, safe and effective at healing the body from the inside out.  Verious forms of tissue decompression have been in continous use for thousands of years. A billion users can’t be wrong.

 

It comes down to compression and tactile stimulation to decompression and deep differential pressure.  Both are good, both date back far into our ancient past.

Massage therapy is achieved by pressing into the tissue which stretches the tissues releasing constrictions in the fibers.  If the tissue has been injured this can be painful.  Massage also stimulates the receptors on the skin producing a relaxing feeling.

Tissue Decompression is achieved by creating a negative pressure in the tissue.  The pressure extends the tissues stretching and lengthing them.  The negative pressure causes a rapid fluid exchange reducing dehydration, poor circulation, scar tissue, and blockages.

Both methods are good.  Tissue decompression can go deeper and create far more fluid balancing.  Massage therapy is also beneficial and  stimulate tissue but adds the important human touch and tends to be more relaxing.

 

There are two types of wounds.  Acute wounds that are in some stage of healing and chronic wounds which are still unresolved.  The later are so common and go on for so long that they are better described as ancient wounds.

The color and feel if the tissue ofter a clue to their existence, but they are best defined by the pain and limits on mobility they produce.  Ancient wounds may posses inflammation, edema, tissue blockages, accumulated toxins, mucus, poor circulation, or dehydration.

Many of these ancient wounds reside in the soft tissue. There are few effective soft tissue therapies available and almost none are provided by the medical community.  This explains the reason so many people are walking wounded.  Ancient wounds are a failure to provide the body with the help it needs to overcome the condition it faces. So what can be done?  One very effective therapy is:

TRANSCUTANEOUS TISSUE DECOMPRESSION (TTD)

TTD has emerged as a highly effective therapy for tissue healing and pain resolving methodology, ideally suited for chiropractors, physical therapist, massage therapist and sports therapist. TTD delivers a variable negative differential pressure to the soft tissue. 

The application of TTD establishes a temporary fluid imbalance resulting in a rapid profusion within the tissue which results in a release of accumulated waste, rehydration, and improved vascularization of the soft tissue.  The kneading process created by the variable pressure extends the tissue breaking up stagnation, scar tissue, adhesions and chronic stress contraction in muscles and myofascial tissue. 

Trancutaneous tissue decompression therapies go by many other names, sub-atmospheric therapy, negative pressure therapy, decompression massage therapy (DMT) to name only a few.  This natural, painless and powerful therapy has been demonstrated in clinical trials to rapidly accelerate the tissue restoration process.  If you are tired of carrying your ancient wound aroung, consider seeing a provider who is trained in this method.

 

You don’t have to use a knife or resort to cancer causing energy sources to stimulate the body and shape and tone it.  Decompression Massage Therapy is an all natural way to detoxify, exercise, shape and tone the body.  It is based on the successful clinical trials on wound healing.

The application of a negative pressure creates a differential pressure in the body that stimulates the production of collagen and muscle.  These important building blocks provide the structure and shape to restore you body to its natual form.

 

Back pain can be debilitating.  Most americans will experience it during their lifetime.  But it is rarely is it a damage spine or disk.  Almost always the problem lies in the soft tissue.  The soft tissue is just sending out a message of its displeasure with the current state of its health.  The causes are multiple, posture, ergonomic, trauma, scar tissue or stress.  The result is the normal fluid levels of the tissue is interrupted resulting in loss of circulation, dehydration, and blockageof normal energy flow.  This is enough to send the nerves into action reporting the situation.

Your natural bodyworker can breakup the tension, stagnation and blockages restablishing the normal fluid levels and eliminating the pain.  The most powerful tool to accomplish this is negative pressure tissue therapy.  Read this blog to learn how this therapy supercharges soft tissue.

If you have chronic back pain, you have probably already had an x-ray to determine if there is any structural damage to the vertebrae or disk material.  If not, you see a chiropractor who is best equipped to make this determination. If your chiropractor determines are no bone spurs, damaged disc or other structural problems he will make treatment recommendations.
Many chiropractors are not equipped to effectively treat soft-tissue constrictions.  They often only have a tens machine, e-stim or ultrasound machine.  These machines are not effective at serious tissue renewal therapy required to effectively resolve these chronic tissue constrictions.
Back Pain can radiate from a variety of tissues.  It can be a nerve trapped in scar tissue or adhesions that resulted from an old injury. The injury may not have seemed bad at the time because there was no blood.  The blood may have been below the skin resulting in invisible scar tissue. �
The pain may be from chronic tension retained in the myofascial tissues.  This chronic constriction results from workplace injuries, ergonomic issues, trauma, past surgeries, illness or stress. The constrictions cause tissue hydration and block the normal flow of energy and fluids.  The body is simply reporting its displeasure with these conditions.
There are many times lower back pain. One unusual source of back pain is soft tissues in the buttocks region   almost all body workers including many chiropractors prefer to avoid this critical area because of sensitivity issues.  The kneading and manipulation of someone buttocks just does not seem like a good idea.  But new tissue decompression tools (not with back decompression machines) put this tissue through a workout that few hands are willing or able to do.
The process kneads the tissue, painlessly breaking up adhesions, scar tissues, releasing stress related compression, impinged nerves and chronic muscle contraction. The therapy creates a powerful vascular profusion that fills the tissue with blood and healing motion in process.  This therapy can be completed in one or more 30 minute sessions.  If the buttocks is the source of the discomfort you will feel the improvement in a single treatment.
 

The rapid loss of weight has probably reduced left you with skin just hanging around.  To eliminate this problem there are only two solutions.  Kill it or heal it.

Kill it. Fast and effective - A skilled surgeon will make an incision cutting you from side to side.  He will stretch the skin cut away the excess and staple you back together.  The benefit is the tightening is immediate and dramatic.  Nothing will do more faster.

The negatives are: Surgery is extreme and expensive, there is the potential for loss of life, not likely, by far most all survive, complications such as infection, loss of feeling (many report this side affect), and scaring.  There are too many possible side effects to list here, but you will get to see them before you can have the proceedure done.

Heal it.  The skin is a living tissue and will very slowly recover from the unhealthy rapid weight loss.  Muscle has been lost and must be restored. Often the offending areas do not respond to traditional muscle building techniques.

A tissue renewal process that uses netative pressure was developed for healing combat wounds, and surgical incisions.  The application produces a  variable diferential pressure applied to the tissue.  This results in an accelerated rate of tissue healing.  The same natural technique is showing promise in accelerating the retraction of this skin, stimulating the production of an important structural material, collagen.  I will post more about this amazing method of reshaping the body and discuss the science behind it later in this blog.

 

After thousands of birthdays, cupping therapy has reached maturity.  The first hint of the approaching maturity, was in 1878 with the publication of a well known medicinal journal “Haemospasia.”  The renowned author Junod, stated that “negative pressure therapy is one of the greatest contributions ever made to the healing arts because of its ability to stimulate circulation. Despite his enthusiasm, it was not until the successful Russian clinical trials that it truly matured. The Russians were trying to heal combat wounds sustained in Afghanistan’s war in the 80s.  They suffered high infection rates.  Searching for a solution, they combined their Chinese neighbor’s ancient cupping practices with modern Russian technology and proved that the combination produces a powerful healing tool.  The results were so dramatic that they set off a patent filing rush, reminiscent of the gold rush as the US medical complex rushed to patent this free natural healing method.
It took only a few decades to have it covered by insurance, the accepted measure of being admitted into mainstream medicine (maturity).  This new natural healing therapy is called Negative Pressure Wound Therapy NWPT, and is in use as a healing tool for post surgical wounds worldwide.
However, the story does not stop here.  It turns out its power to heal extends far beyond that of its ancient practices and modern wound healing alone.  It is without a doubt the best way to stimulate the body to heal itself,  which is exactly what wound healing is all about, and the clinical trials confirmed. Tissue decompression applied on a larger scale with more powerful tools produces a dramatic healing response throughout the body.  Once the decompression starts there is an almost instant drop of a half atmosphere. That would be equivalent to going from sea level to a high mountain top in less than two seconds.
The watery and porous body is forced into action, as the dynamic liquid wave created by the variable decompression forces the tissues to rise and falls as it permeates  deep into the tissue, smashing stagnation, stimulating dormant nerve fibers, releasing myofascial tension, lengthening muscles and connective fibers, flushing accumulated toxins, and dramatically boosting circulation.
Adhesions and scar tissues are kneaded like dough until their fragments are left for the metabolic process to consume.  Chronic stress restrictions and blockages are cleared allowing rehydration and the reestablishment of the micro current flow through the tissue.
The body is pumped like a plunger clearing a sink. The inhale stroke created by the pull of the piston powered decompression machine draws a large breadth as the tissue rises high to fill the vacuum, only to be followed by the sudden exhalation of the last breath releasing the weight of a half atmosphere to come crashing down like the plunger in the sink.  This resulting fluid wave penetrates the permeable body structures even through the bone marrow. No cell can escape the law of pressure deferential, which says that all fluids must reach a state of equilibrium. Tissue decompression is an equalization process that forces the body to release the blockages that lie in its path restoring homeostasis within the body. Training in tissue decompression therapy prepares the body worker for major healing work that only compliments their existing practice.  The systems are being used by massage therapists, natural healing clinics, physical therapists, sports trainers, chiropractors and physicians.

Its actual beginnings are unknown.  Archeologist unearthed tools from ancient camp sites.  These tools consisted of animal horns, smoothed on rocks and held over a fire to displace the air inside creating a negative pressure.  This negative pressure therapy tool is the forerunners to modern tissue decompression tools and practices.

Today soft tissue decompression is expanding rapidly following the successful clinical trials beginning in the mid 80’s.  In a few decades it has emerged as a premier post surgical wound healing therapy.  It is also the key element on many aesthetic therapies devices used by plastic surgeons and Spas.

However, the largest market appears to be the bodywork market which includes massage therapist, physical therapist, natural healing practitioners, sport therapists, and chiropractors.  Body workers have long held down with nothing but their hands, stones and a few blunt objects to use in healing while every other therapeutic profession embraced technology to advance their curative science.  Chiropractor’s hand adjustment for back compression is now surpassed by  decompression machines that apply precise force separating and relieving the vertebrae that are just impossible  by hand.

It is important to note that disease is caused by physical disturbances and can often be cured by bodily means.  Hence these physical therapies are an prominent in the scope of healing the body.

Other body workers such as a massage therapist continue to do what they can with their hands.  And there is a lot that hand work can accomplish, but it is no match for technology when it comes to controlling, power and the avoidance of discomfort from deep tissue work, or the ability to bring blood into the tissue and remove edema and waste.

The use of low pressure to treat soft tissue has many names; tissue decompression, decompression massage, reverse massage and negative pressure wound therapy to name a few. The therapy is finding many healing and aesthetic applications since the 4 key elements illumined in the successful  Russian Clinical Trials. Since that time, a variety of forms have been adopted by the medical community for post operative wound therapy. NWPT as the wound therapy version is sometimes referred to results in dramatic reduction  in the time required to close and heal post operative wounds.

A bodywork model is now in use for treatment of almost all soft-tissue  complaints. The DMS-2000 is a FDA Class I, soft tissue therapy device that features 27 body tools to painlessly manipulate affected soft tissue producing surprising results in people suffering from a long list of chronic soft-tissue  problems affecting the muscle, connective tissues, myofascial and nerves.

It was introduced  to therapeutic massage practitioners who used it for a variety of soft-tissue  problems, including their own injuries resulting from delivering deep manual therapies. This was followed by the Spa industry as a lower-cost  alternative for an inch reduction and skin tightening treatments to compete with larger negative pressure devices such as Endermology. Most recently it has been introduced to the chiropractic community for tissue muscle rehabilitation of the back, neck, shoulder and hips…

Tissue decompression has many advantages as an alternative to the tens machine because of its ability to reverse tissue blockages resulting trauma or stress such as scar tissue, myofascial and adhesions. The combination of computer-controlled  tissue extension and contraction produce by the variable decompression strokes combined with the rapid influx of fresh blood and release of toxins can produce dramatic improvement in most people. For information requests, the white paper “Principles and Applications of Tissue Decompression Therapy” howard.bailes@dmtpartners.com.

Dropping a half an atmosphere in less than a second sends a  clear message to the your fluid body.  Equalize the pressure now.  Equalization sets in motion a fluid wave that forces the release of accumulated toxins, the influx of vast amount of blood, the extension of all the soft tissues including skin, muscle, connective tissues and myofascial structures.  The application of negative pressure breaks up tissue stagnation and blockages resulting from adheshesions, scar tissue, stress and trauma.  In the process tissue is rehydrated, nerves are stimulated and the lymph is drained.

The result is a rebalancing of the system and the stimulation of the natural healing system.  The benefits include aesthetic renewal, therapeutic reduction stagnation and chronic pain and the improvement of circulation and waste elimination.

The therapy is painless, natural and very stimulating to the body.  It is often caused a reverse massage because it pulls the body out rather than pushing in.

The benefit of regular tissue renewal therapy is best described by those who use it every day and their clients who receive the natural sub-atmospheric soft-tissue  treatment for aesthetic, therapeutic and wellness issues.

The videos can be found on the dmthealth channel inside YouTube.  Tissue decompression is truly an out-of-body experience.

Decompression massage is a type of body therapy based on ancient practices and new technology.  The success with this therapy is supported with clinical trial findings that document the renewal powers of tissue decompression.  Decompression therapy has many names around the world.  A few of these names include sub-atmospheric therapy, reverse massage and negative pressure therapy.

In medicine, decompression massage therapy (DMT) is used for post surgical tissue healing.  In the massage and chiropractic field, it is used therapeutically to break up adhesions and scar tissue restoring fluid flow within the tissue.  At the same time, it exercises muscle tissue, ligaments and the fascial structure. The result blood flow, exercise and detoxification of the tissue accelerate the healing of the soft tissues.

In the case of aesthetics, DMT accelerates the production of collagen, which is responsible for the shape and form to the body. Spas often use it to reduce inches and tighten loose skin.  In wellness therapies, a common use is lymph drainage and non-invasive colon clearing.

Request a white paper from the Decompression Massage Therapy Association to learn more about the science, applications and benefits of this powerful therapy.   Send an email to howard.bailes@dmtpartners.com

DMT (decompression massage therapy) utilizes an ancient principle of negative pressure to release constricted fascial tissues and muscles, but it goes even further flooding the tissue with fresh blood and releasing the toxins stored in the adjacent fat.

Our body is mostly water,  and all fluids obey the laws of physics.  Create an imbalance in the tissues and the fluids must equalize.  Create a constant pull on the fascia and it will release.

The side effect of this pain releasing therapy is natural beauty.  Healthy tissues are happy tissues, and they reflect this with a glow and by adding collagen, which restructures  the body and reshapes it in the process.

You get a detox, fascial release, massage and natural beauty renewal all in the same session.

Tissue decompression goes by many names.  Sub-atmospheric therapy, negative pressure therapy, and decompression massage therapy to name only a few of the dozen names used around the world.  Tissue decompression was originally developed to heal wounds.  It was demonstrated effective in clinical trials and quickly adopted as a post-surgical  wound therapy.  However, there were interesting side effects.  One  thing observed was skin tightening.

It was thought that the tissue decompression was reducing fat, but it was soon discovered that it was actually accelerating the healing process of soft tissue, producing collagen, and reshaping the body.  If there was loose skin it gradually retracted.

New 60 minute online workshops are scheduled every Friday afternoon. These workshops cover the history, clinical trials, applications and benefits of soft-tissue  decompression (Decompression Massage Therapy). They include an open discussion where you can ask questions.  You will also be provided links to hear therapist and clients discuss the benefits of DMT. Please visit our web site at www.dmthealth.com for complete details.  Register and you will receive an email confirming your registration and providing the details on how to attend.

New 60 minute online workshops are scheduled every Friday afternoon. These workshops cover the history, clinical trials, applications and benefits of soft-tissue  decompression (Decompression Massage Therapy). They include an open discussion where you can ask questions.  You will also be provided links to hear therapist and clients discuss the benefits of DMT. Please visit our web site at www.dmthealth.com for complete details.  Register and you will receive an email confirming your registration and providing the details on how to attend.

The benefits of Decompression Massage Therapy extend beyond its powerful healing powers.  Tissue decompression has a long history beginning with cupping to its modern form for post surgical wound healing in use by major hospitals around the world.  When the clinical trials were first conducted it was observed that a side effect of the negative pressure therapy inches up reduction.  Wounds located in the fatty tissues were healed quickly, and the surrounding tissue tightened.  Improving the shape and appearance.

Now massage therapists and spa owners can add inch reduction, facial tightening and by adding infrared the reduction of cellulite to their offerings.  These new services can help separate the therapist from the competition.  www.dmthealth.com

Series of FREE workshops are scheduled for three Texas cities.  Sites include Dallas, Austin and Houston.  These workshops are designed as an introduction to decompression massage therapy practices and provide a massage therapist with the opportunity to try out the therapy first hand.  Attendees can apply the four hours to the required hours to be certified in the bodywork therapy.  The training covers aesthetic, therapeutic and wellness modalities.

Additional information available at www.dmthealth.com  Visit workshop section.  The site includes video’s testimonials from therapists as well as their clients.  The workshop is free and open to all body workers including: massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, health and wellness and spa personnel.

The popularity of this therapy has seen steady growth in the U.S. since its introduction.  The therapies’ roots are in health and wellness, but it was its potential for aesthetic body renewal that first got the attention of the American public.

DMT (decompression machine therapy) is popular for its ability to tighten, smooth and tone loose skin.  It is often recommended by plastic surgeons for post-lipo treatment to smooth out the body.  People who do not need a large volume of fat reduction can simply use the therapy to reduce the accumulated fat on the hips, stomach, waist or thighs. To locate a therapist visit www.dmthealth.com

Each month new therapists are discovering the power of Decompression Massage Therapy and integrating it into their practice.  The results are amazing and as the network grows, so do the success stories.  Hardly, a week goes by without hearing a story of how a therapist resolved a chronic pain that had existed for years or how they trimmed a dress size so a bride could get into her wedding dress she had purchased many months before.