Having tried physiotherapists, chiropractors, a massage therapist I have had good results with, a very cocksure neuromuscular therapist, an exercise physiologist who thought he was the bee's knees and other assorted health professionals, including my GPs, over the past 15 years my GP suggested I head along to see a local couple at The Dreaming Body.
Apparently they are devotees to the theories of an American bloke by the name of John F. Barnes who has pioneered and promoted the benefits of "myofascial ralease and myofascial unwinding" which "is the release of the holding or bracing patterns of the mind/body complex."
The treatment involved "90-120 seconds of gentle, sustained pressure for the restricted tissue to begin to release."
When I went back the second time and explained that I had experienced no change in my pain or symptoms at all they really went to work on me. There was more prolonged "gentle, sustained pressure" and "How does that feel?" - style questions. They were seriously surprised when I said it was doing nothing!
THEN!!! They both grabbed a leg each and, after getting me to relax and let my legs go floppy, they were slowly lifting and rotating my legs around in long sweeping rotations. It was bloody weird and I really struggled to not laugh out loud.
At the end they sold me a plastic yellow ball and gave me some notes to take home and some notes to help me with some hip, abductor, illiotibial band, and psoas releases. They pretty much admitted they didn't know what else they could do for me.
Each visit cost me $100. Even the ball cost me $8. I felt seriously duped. How can people get away with this sort of witch doctor crap and charge so much for it without producing any benefits or results. F**k!!
