9 weeks to bring up bench, while 100% off

[janoshik]

It's along the same lines of (I'm going to mess up spelling here) Gua Sha and AISTM

They're actually taking a metal tool and scraping away at the muscle from the surface, breaking up adhesions and scar tissue and increasing blood flow. I've probably had a good 40 sessions done overall to the point where I bought my own generic tools off myobar. It's been an absolute game changer for me with recovery

Basically damage to heal, it's a working approach - at times.

Thank you for the insight, it's nice to hear from somebody who has a lot of the experience with the method.

Do you find it to be very intense for you? I find it to be very uncomfortable, slightly painful. It's like the pain increases the entire time I'm being pressed on. I've had maybe 8 sessions

I am fighting an uphill battle with another issue so Graston might not be the best thing for me currently, not that sure...

A good sports massage leaves me on verge of tears all the time.

Hope you get the issues sorted out soon.

It's by far the most intense pain I've ever felt in my life. If I wasn't looking, I'd swear I was being skinned alive. Most of my sessions are filled with a lot of swearing and trying to breathe and not puke from the pain. But the moment he lifts the tool away the pain is gone.

I've had it done by three people. One was PT who was so gentle with it that I didn't get anything out of it, and it just kinda hurt. One is a chiropractor who specifically works with bodybuilders and understands how it needs to be done on people with more muscle mass and also is very good at using it to make the lines much more pronounced in the muscle and the definition pop.

When working on my chest, he gave me a towel to bite down on and counted me through the last 5 seconds coaching me to not give up lol

I've had some injuries over the years. On a pain scale of 1-10 with Graston being a 10, breaking a bone was a 3

thanks again

this helped me figure that I still might be too gentle with me, time to bite the towel myself, I guess

 

[ickyrica]

Thanks! And you the same.