The Benefits
The FascialEdge® is a new and exceptional treatment tool for bodywork practitioners. It was developed to offer distinct benefits to both practitioners and their clients.
- It optimises the therapeutic effects
- In expert hands it dramatically increases the treatment technique options
- Makes the most of the clinical time
- Reduces mechanical stress on your own ‘tools’ – your hands and fingers
- Is extremely versatile with multiple adaptive technical uses
- Is faster, more thorough and easier for the therapist
- More beneficial for the patient with deeper and longer lasting results
How it Works
The FascialEdge® acts as a metal ‘prosthetic’ extension of your own hands. The tool is guided and glided over the target tissues using a light to firm relaxed hold. It fits in the ‘cup’ of your hands. The steel working edges make the therapeutic contact, rather than your own soft palm, finger and thumb tissues. It moulds into the contours of your hands; and in expert hands it becomes another appendage.
Using the FascialEdge®, it`s easier to work deeper and slower and with less effort; plus you work longer with less strain. Importantly, your own hands are still in ‘therapeutic-touch’ contact with the client at all times.
- The tool is 20cm (8″) long, easy to manipulate and hold; allowing a relaxed but firm hold with either one or two hands.
- The long curves and profiles of the tool allow for a perfect ‘gliding-fit’ to major tissue planes and anatomical features.
- It can apply gentle to the firmest of therapeutic pressure as it offers a fulcrum action in the hands of a skilled practitioner
- It can be pulled, pushed or drawn across all tissues.
- In practice the long edge corresponds to the ulnar ridge of the forearm of the practitioner; often used for sweeping massage strokes over broad areas of the torso
- The narrower end corresponds in shape to the human thumb
- The wider end corresponds in shape to the elbow
- The cleverly profiled shape of the FascialEdge® is flat on one side and rounded on the other. This allows the practitioner to vary the skin contact from a gentle rounded contact to an acute radius, effectively making a straight but rounded “edge”.