Technique Tuesday: Graded Exposure Stretching Technique (GEST)
Like an overly protective mother, the brain will try anything it can to avoid what it believes may cause injury. And with a very sophisticated built-in adaptive mechanism, it is excellent at determining whether the body needs less or more protection at any given time.
In the MAT application of GEST, clients engage in active feedback while the therapist applies graded exposure pressure at the feathered edge of the client’s movement restrictive barrier.
The key is to progressively introduce a stretch to areas that have been problematic in the past causing the nervous system to begin associating new movement with safety instead of pain.
Muscle energy, joint stretching and pin-and-twist maneuvers, such as Ida Rolf's "up the front, down the back" technique are proven to work quickly and efficiently.
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