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Spine Health | Last Active: Oct 19, 2025 | Replies (75)
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@jenniferhunter I have thought about this but my doctors haven't gone into any detail about it so the only research I have is what I have found on the internet. So far I have only done one day of PT in October 2024 just a couple months after the surgery. They had me do every exercise in the book and I could not move the next day, I was in worse pain than even after waking up from the surgery or the month from surgery. It has been that way ever since that appointment. I honestly went back to work and tried PT way too early it was only 2-2.5 months from the surgery before I started my daily life for about a week and then that PT appt and I haven't been back.
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@mpar6771 I understand your concern. MFR isn’t exercise. Have you ever kneaded bread dough? You push the dough and feel the elastic pull as it develops. MFR is like that. The therapist finds the tight areas and pushes against it on your body and just holds the tension and waits. The fascia is unwinding itself and changes and liquifies a bit before it returns to semisolid. It gets reorganized and fluids begin to circulate through the tissue again. You just get to lay on the table. It is a shearing motion with pressure that is held “against the barrier” of tension until it loosens. Once you learn this , you can find ways to do home treatments using things to simulate the shearing pressure that the therapist does.
MFR has done wonders for me. There is a provider search at http://www.mfrtherapists.com.