@anagharavi17 Finding good MFR therapists can be a challenge. When you learn how to do MFR home stretching, you can start figuring things out to help yourself. I have not been able to see my MFR therapist because of Medicare. Doctors don't want to prescribe physical therapy unless there is a very specific reason or problem that can be solved in 12 sessions or so, and that usually isn't enough. You can't do everything that your therapist can do because you are using things to push on, and your therapist can easily get there hands at the right angles. Insurance may not want to cover it either, so some patients self pay. if you wanted to do an intensive treatment over a week or so, you could go to Therapy on the Rocks in Sedona, AZ, or their second location in Pennsylvania. You would have therapists working on you several times a day and can progress faster. It would be pricey, but it can make a big difference.

In answer to your question about frequency, you may start out at 2 or 3 times a week, and as things get better, that may be once a week. It takes time to work through all the layers of tight tissue. I have seen my PT over 3 or 4 months working this way. Everyone is different, but a trained MFR therapist can usually advise what they think will help you. The more you can do on your own at home while working with a PT, the faster you can progress.

Therapy on the Rocks
https://therapyontherocks.net/

@anagharavi17 there are specific therapists that are trained in MFR therapy. I don’t go to one of those because they’re really pricey and I’m not sure they do anything better than the guy I got the guy have is a licensed massage therapist and he does an awesome job at deep my facial tissue release. He is way better than the guys who I’ve used that have come through Medicare and paid for in my physical therapy. I only pay $60 for an hour plus tip and fees so it turns out to be around $80 compared to the ones who were licensed specifically in a particular kind of MFR therapy who charged $250 an hour. Medicare will cover it if you have a diagnosis of spasticity. Which I do, but I haven’t had time to find a new person who will submit to Medicare. The beauty of the guy I see is his cheap rate for which I’m so grateful but he doesn’t deal with insurance companies. I have acquired my problems from an auto accident at seven years of age that damaged my body and neck and my career was sitting over a drafting table for very long hours 5,6, 7 days a week. how you know it’s working is that you start to feel better and the big rocks of the muscles that are glued solid together start coming apart I have been told by everyone it’s going to take a couple years several years. They can un glue the muscles, but it can be pretty painful but they can glue back together again so it’s something that has to be sustained. I go twice a month for MFR and then I go once a week for physical therapy. On top of that I do other things like trigger point injections, I’ve done Botox, I’ve done epidurals and steroids. I keep the medicines to a bare minimum and only for emergency. I also use muscle relaxer sometimes for my neck. And I work with a special sports medicine doctor who’s taking me under his wing. I didn’t know, for example, that there are particular muscle relaxers that work on particular things in particular muscles. I just find people I trust and I know the difference because I’ve been at doctors, pain management, rehab, surgeries for well over 30 years. I’ve learned to rotate the things that I focus on in my body because I can’t take care of everything all at once so I have to prioritize and then sometimes re-prioritize. I know there’s certain things that really provoke my body. One of those things is wind and another thing is cold weather and the change from day tonight of extreme temperature change. I also know that going into a rain is very difficult for me and I just lighten my schedule when those kind of things happen. I did not take care of my body very well when I was younger by dancing hard, working long hours with poor posture, and then I inherited degenerative disc condition and osteoarthritis not to mention Gouty arthritis.
Sometimes I have to surrender and sometimes I have to push myself and sometimes I don’t know the difference. But finding good doctors and doctors who are patient with me and there for me is really super important. I like this group and I’ve gotten a lot of great tips from this group so it’s a good place to be.