What is Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy®?

"Canadian Massage" or "Deep Muscle Therapy", originally created by Thérèse Pfrimmer in the 1940's, works on a cross-muscle-fiber principle and has come to be known as Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy®. In the past 50 years, this therapy has changed the lives of literally thousands. It is one of the most respected techniques in the world today. Her discovery, which led to the reversal of her own paralysis, consists of an extremely detailed, total-body cross-fiber treatment which causes corrective changes in the muscle on a cellular level. Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy works toward the correction and prevention of serious muscle conditions such as ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson's, Cerebral Palsy, brain injury, and stroke. It has also been effective in alleviating muscular and joint pain, headaches, carpal tunnel syndrome, sports injuries, trauma, occupational stress disorders, arthritis, paralysis, back pain, whiplash, chronic fatigue syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, constipation,and circulatory problems, to name a few.


How Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy® Works

Tight, adherent muscles are the cause of many ailments, due to their involvement in restricting the circulation of blood and lymphatic fluid, by the entrapment of nerves in soft tissue, and in the impairing of normal structural alignment. To illustrate the point, the effect of a damaged or adherent muscle can be comparable to a garden hose with a kink or bend in it. When this occurs, the normal flow of water is blocked and the garden is not watered sufficiently. When a similar disruption in muscle and soft tissue occurs, the normal functions of the blood, nervous,and/or lymphatic systems are diminished or blocked, and tissues and organs supplied by these systems are not properly serviced.

Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy is designed to cause corrective changes to the damaged or adherent muscles and the adjacent soft tissues. The improved circulation that results causes changes on the cellular level, not only to the muscle involved, but also to any soft tissue that may have been affected by the impaired circulation. Where muscles have become "dry", Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy brings lymphatic fluid toward the muscle cell. The lymphatic fluid acts as the liquid medium required for osmosis and cellular exchange on the capillary level.

Pfrimmer DMT corrects the source of the problem, on the cellular level
Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy relieves entrapment of nerves, and it also aids in moving out toxins and congestion that may have accumulated in damaged muscles and soft tissue, thereby reducing edema and inflammation, as well as reducing pain. It promotes detoxification on a cellular level, thus improving cellular function. It softens hard fibrous muscles which restrict joint range of motion and "throw off" the body's proper structural alignment.

Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy provides a dramatic form of passive exercise for those who have been injured or are ill. Combining PDMT with traditional treatment for specific conditions or diseases offers an added edge in that it can speed recovery and promote continued improvement where traditional treatments leave off.

How Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy®
Helps the Body Systems
Below is just a partial list of ways that Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy has shown itself to be  beneficial  to overall health:


Muscular  system

· Corrects damaged muscles and separates adherent fibers
· Allows nutrients and medicines to reach the cellular area and wastes  to be
 removed
· Softens hard, fibrous muscles and relieves pain
· Relieves congestion and inflammation


Skeletal system

· Clears deposits and debris from old bone injuries
· Restores damaged ligaments and tendons at bone attachments
· Improves joint range of motion
· Enhances effectiveness of orthopedic, chiropractic, and osteopathic
 treatment
· Allows for improved posture and stronger stance


Nervous system

· Releases entrapment of nerves in soft tissue
· Reduces inflammation and congestion along nerve pathway (neuritis,
 radiculitis, neuralgia, etc.)
· Relieves neuromuscular conditions
· Improves conditions resulting from brain injury


Integumentary system

· Improves circulation to the skin
· Reduces bed sores, acne, and other skin eruptions
· Improves skin tone
· Regular treatment can improve the appearance of cellulite


Endocrine system

· Opens up dry muscle cells so endocrine hormones can reach their
 'end sites' through improved circulation


Cardiovascular system

· Contributes to the improvement of sclerotic blood vessels
· Relieves congestion in chest for congestive heart patients
· Improves general health and client ability to self-maintain through exercise


Lymphatic system

· Releases entrapment of lymphatic vessels
· Improves circulation of lymphatic system
· Restores muscles which 'pump' the lymphatic fluids


Respiratory system

· Releases restrictions in the muscles that aid in breathing
· Promotes postural improvement, thereby reducing "crowding" of lungs
· Relieves congestion in lung/chest area

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