I’ve just completed Walt Fritz’ myofascial release workshop for disorders of the neck and upper chest region, issues of swallowing, voice, and breath, and speech-language pathologies.

Conditions that could be alleviated include dysphonia, oropharyngeal dysphagia, dyspnea, globus pharyngeus, trismus, post-surgery recovery, radiotherapy fibrosis, head and neck cancer radiation pain, and even tracheal stenosis.

I’ve not yet written my own web-page for this therapy, so in the meantime, see Fritz’s overview of MFR for SLP, and this collection of his videos showing the treatments I can offer.

Introductory order of techniques: diaphragm thoracic outlet cross-handed release, lateral sternal and neck stretch, inferior/superior supine largyngeal excursion seated langyngeal and TOS/neck stretch hyoid mobilization submandibular deep-tissue lengual stretch: extend, knead, shear, and bite     TMJ: superior medial aspect of medial (vertical) pterygoid with index pad TMJ: caudal pressure on lower back molar with thumb pad Cutaneous stretch, multiple directions, of lateral jaw, zygomatic muscles