Massage Therapy with Dee Hiatt,
LMT
203-377-1262
| Langer’s Lines |
| February, 2000 |
| I’m in love with Langer’s lines. These are natural creases in the connective tissue or fascia that wraps the entire
surface of the body like a tight elastic body stocking. When massage stretches the fascia along Langer’s lines, a release, called myofascial release, is often provided for the fascia and for muscle tissues it encloses. A client described the sensation as being let out of prison. The myofascial release techniques I’ve recently learned have come from an excellent workshop given by George Kousaleos, founder of the CORE Institute in Florida. I’ll be studying further with him in a more extensive workshop in the late spring. I enjoy myofascial release. It’s deep, satisfying, and relaxing to give and to receive. It uses small but effective amounts of wonderful smelling cocoa butter. It warms me just to think of it. Incidentally, if surgical incisions are made parallel to Langer’s lines, a much smaller scar develops (Tabor’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary). |
| © 2004, Dee Hiatt |