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💜 Trigger Point… or Fascial Restriction?

That “knot” you’ve been rubbing for months…

What if it isn’t just a muscle problem?

Many people call it a trigger point, but in John F. Barnes Myofascial Release, we often find that these painful areas are manifestations of fascial restrictions. Fascia is a continuous, three-dimensional web of connective tissue that surrounds and penetrates every muscle, nerve, blood vessel, bone, and organ in your body.

When fascia becomes restricted from trauma, surgery, inflammation, repetitive stress, or unresolved emotional stress, it can create localized tenderness, tight bands, and pain that feels like a stubborn knot.

The common response?
❌ Dig into it.
❌ Rub it harder.
❌ Use elbows, massage guns, or aggressive pressure.

But if the fascial restriction is never addressed, the body often tightens even more to protect itself. You may get temporary relief, only to have the pain return because the underlying restriction remains.

✨ John Barnes’ Myofascial Release is different.

Instead of forcing tissue to change, we apply gentle, sustained pressure, rebound and allow the body to unwind and allow the fascia time to soften and release. As the restriction unwinds, pressure on muscles, nerves, joints, and blood vessels can decrease, allowing the body to move with greater ease and less compensation.

Sometimes the place that hurts isn’t even where the restriction began. That’s why in Myofascial Release, we treat the whole body—not just the symptom.

Your body isn’t asking for more force.
It’s asking to be heard.

💜 Healing happens when we follow the restrictions, not fight them.

Rowena Cua 💜
Expert JFB Myofascial Release Therapist
Trauma Informed Healing
www.bodymfr.com

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❌ You sit down at your desk, and within 30 minutes, a deep, sickening, bruised sensation develops right at the absolute base of your spine, between your glutes. When you stand up, a sharp stitch of pain flashes through your tailbone area, making you hunch over for a few steps. You assume you have an inflamed tailbone bone or severe sciatica, so you buy a donut cushion, stretch your glutes out aggressively, and try leaning forward. Yet, the moment you sit down again, that burning ache flares right back up.

Your bones aren't bruised or broken. The deep muscular floor of your pelvis has locked into a high-tension vice-grip that is literally yanking your tailbone out of alignment.

The Anatomy
Deep within your pelvic bowl lies the coccygeus muscle, working alongside the levator ani complex to form your deep pelvic floor. The coccygeus originates from the ischial spine of your pelvis and inserts directly into the lateral borders of your lower sacrum and coccyx (your tailbone). Its primary, evolutionary duty is to support your pelvic visceral organs and pull your tailbone back into position after it naturally flexes during bowel movements or sitting transitions.

The Hidden Trigger
When you spend hours slouched back in soft office chairs, couches, or bucket seats, you place your pelvis into a heavy posterior pelvic tilt. This slouching forces your entire body weight to rest directly onto your tailbone bone rather than your hard sitting bones (ischial tuberosities). To handle this crushing, unnatural pressure, the deep coccygeus muscle undergoes an emergency, high-tension survival spasm.

The Consequence
This contraction triggers The Coccygeal Tug. Because the coccygeus muscle runs directly from your stable hip bones to your highly mobile tailbone, its permanent spasm acts like a tight winch cable. It violently pulls your tailbone forward and inward, locking the sensitive sacrococcygeal joint into a state of severe, chronic compression. Every time you sit down or stand up, your surrounding deep nerves are pinched against the misaligned bone, sending a deep, burning referred pain through your glutes that perfectly mimics sciatica or piriformis syndrome.

How to Break the Cycle
The External Sacrotuberous Release: Stop rolling your main glutes. Lie on your back, take a firm massage ball, and place it right along the hard edge of your sacrum, just an inch away from your tailbone. Do not sit directly on the tailbone. Let your weight drop onto the ball, and slowly open your knee out to the side 10 times to release the deep fascial attachments of the pelvic floor.

The Diaphragmatic Deep Pelvic Drop: Sit tall on your hard sitting bones. Inhale deeply into your belly, and actively imagine expanding your pelvic floor downward, as if relaxing your bladder completely. Hold that expanded state for 4 seconds on the inhale to stretch the coccygeus.

The Ischial Ergonomic Reset: Adjust your chair so your hips are slightly higher than your knees, forcing your weight onto your sit bones and taking all physical pressure off your tailbone.

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