Dynamic Chiropractic – November 15, 2000, Vol. 18, Issue 24

BY WARREN HAMMER, MS, DC, DABCO

Imagine being able to create a fascial stretch that localizes tension to a particular spinal level. Frenchman Guy Voyer, MD, DO, has created and used such stretches since 1977 with great success.  For patients to perform these stretches, it is necessary for them to develop an awareness of the specific positions. The patient must

"engage in a posture that aims at a specific vertebral level in reference at all times to both a fixed and mobile reference, which, when placed under a self-induced tension, results in a precise osteoarticular decoaptation."

According to Dr. Voyer, the local effects of this stretch are zygopophyseal separation, imbibition of the disc, increased venous return, normalization of muscle tone (by extreme eccentric contraction), proprioceptive facilitation of the paraspinal muscles, and improved kinetic sense.  Read the entire article: Myofascial Chains