Retightening after your own stretching?

People ask me about their retightening after stretching.
Why it happens.
It is usually that their lengthening with stretching
is not getting deep enough & not lengthening the
important areas. Including deeply.

Also
Your tissues may need more vegetables and sea vegetables and even fresh fruit nutrition.  These make tissues more easily spreadable and if you do a lot of fresh green vegetable juices and kelp seaweed, a lot or all the pain goes away, too.
AND IF YOU ARE SO TIGHT IT IS HARD TO STRETCH
See my Unique On Site Article  Foods for Structure

Muscles may retighten because of lack of these nutrients.
But usually, retightening means other & deeper muscles & fascial have not been relengthened, & there is still a big zig zag between the legs & torso, & in the neck.
You need to stretch systemically, not just in the muscles that are tight or that you have a specific kind of muscle "syndrome."  You need to lengthen, or elongate, in all your parts. 

WHY this works SO WELL -
    click here to jump to the Heart of the Matter
    Describing Fascia Stretching
Lots of testimonials:
Yoga Practitioners, College Coaches & keep scrolling 4 more

And it is straightforward to learn, but most people have to learn the why - & feel it, too.
I explain this in the phone sessions
& even mention it in emails. 

Also, not very often is it mainly because of emotional stuff stored even though old emotional trauma does get stored in the structure & exerts a contracting effect. 
(I can do sessions to remove this with you, too,
on the phone, even overseas, for low cost.)

Most people who contact me
have learned the typical ways to stretch
& it just doesn't do enough for them.
- Have been using typical stretches that really are in sufficient
     to lengthen the BELLIES of the muscles in all the parts.
- Eg: just raising your leg to lengthen hamstrings never seems
     to be enough, I have heard. 
- People also don't do enough adductors & medial legs & the
     attachments to the pelvis & sides of the pelvis.
- They also don't yet know how to lengthen the torso upward in
      front nor how the arms & abdomen tighten the shoulders & chest.  
- Plus, you need to know mentally & experience how to
      lengthen the torso front, sides & back together to help the
      legs not retighten.

Back to where you jumped from           Up to Top     
 

PRICING & ORDER INFO

CONTACTING LOU  INCLUDES
FREE - phone consultation-structural analysis
FREE - stretch coaching before & after you get the DVD's.
FREE - Structural Integration Photo Structural Analysis

You are getting a 25 year Structural Expert
    as your personal Advisor-Coach for
    Structural Bodywork, Stretching & Structural Nutrition ;
LOU is there for YOU, personally via phone & email.

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*   ORDERING
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Massage & health - food items, car repair, house cleaning, typing
Testimonials of how my DVDs have helped you are encouraged.

Let me know good times to call you back
Please include your TIME ZONE or state - country so I know
    when evening or morning is for you versus my own time zone.
    & include-spell out your EMAIL ADDRESS if possible, so I can be sure
    I get in touch with you & can send you an initial info article. 

I usually return calls promptly & can talk with you,
    & very often do the free consult-stretching sessions
    the same or next day, even on the same phone call
IF you don't get a call back in 1-2 days, please call again and/or email    because my otherwise reliable voicemail service sometimes delays getting me messages for a number of days.

Important Read -- See WHY THIS METHOD is so effective: 
     Jump to the Heart of the Matter
Also
    See on-site detailed article:  Method of Structural Integration

Optional Read -- Free Consult Info Page
What's in each of the DVDs: 
     Videos 1,2,3 Package plus 4 & 5 - Info Page
Which DVDs to get?  See this page
Testimonials:  Coaches & Yoga Practitioners    Many People   
                          Immediate Improvements

Some people say they have trouble fitting stretching
into their regular days.    So see these sections.
How to fit these into your daily life a little at a time w/fast
     & good results:  a couple of sections below
     Do a few thru the day     How Lou Teaches

Are you a bodyworker or body therapist?
  See Practitioner Support:  Try these linked sections
Teaches you about Structure    Helps Clients    My Credentials
       Helps prevent repetitive strain injuries
       This is Not Yoga     Not the same as similar looking stretches
       An Integrated Structure approach
       Info about the Hands-on How-to DVDs
       How Practitioners use this, sell it, get consults from me
Causes of retightening that this corrects  retightening causes

 

IF YOU WANT TO SCROLL DOWN This Info Page gives - in this order.  -- The Two Key Specifics  de-mystify & fix, &         lengthening BETWEEN the joints. -- Why this is such a good ELONGATION        METHOD - an explanatory list -- SYSTEMIC Fascia relengthening is the key -- Testimonials -- The Heart of the Matter:  an explanation of         fascia, and of fascia stretching -- How Lou teaches you effectively -- Preventing repetitive Strain Injuries -- How to fit key stretches into your daily life -- How this is an "Integrated" approach to        stretching -- This is a teaching resource to Practitioners -- Links to Helpful Articles on the Website -- How practitioners can help their patients with        these Stretches & hands-on How-to's -- Advantage of THIS DVD's methods, for all,        & for athletic teams & others. -- Hands-on How-to DVDs Information -- Detailed ordering information -- A list of benefits & features -- Further explanation of the method -- Info on the Guided Relaxation Mind into Body        audio. Links for jumping are available    at top of this page above,    in a table of contents further down the page,    & in specific sections.

THE TWO KEY SPECIFICS

SPECIFIC (1 of 2)   I de-mystify the causes of people's tightness & pains, & show them how to correct them.  
Free "proof" right on the phone - before you decide to buy. Even worked right away in Massage School Instruction & with the people who call me for athletic tightness & back & neck pains.

The positions you put your body in and the method of stretching by spreading out the distance between collagen fibers thru the fluidy fascia, is specifically designed to help Low & other Back Pain  & Muscle Tightness --- & to improve what we call overall body alignment  as we talk about in the famous Structural Integration Bodywork System.

   "I didn't know you could fix the back 
       even without touching the back."
              from two Massage Therapy Class Students where
              I gave a guest class at Kaiser University on the Stretching
              & the Hands-on for fixing back pain & tightness.

The Stretches always increase results from my hands-on Bodywork & make the next hands-on sessions do more.
 
So when these students then did a fascial spreading mini-course in THE specific areas to reduce the excess arch people get in their low   backs, everyone in the class, including the teacher, found their low backs got somewhat better.


People on the phone tell me these are More Effective than the usual stretches they say they have been doing, and not getting the release they have wanted.

Even when my stretch positions at first seem to a new person, like the stretches they have done before, this method of the interconnected muscle positions, then applying the collagen spreading with my area-by-area mind-into-body lengthening is more effective than how most people stretch with those other positions. 

Further, the adaptations I add to the more well know looking positions, also increase a person's ability to spread more collagen fibers further apart, as that is what creates the large amount of elongation that lasts, as well as creating more lengthening as we do the stretch.

SPECIFIC  (2 of 2)    If you are told you have very loose joints and yet you have tightness and pains - then this kind of stretching can help you - because it is aimed at lengthening the muscle bodies and not creating looseness at the joints.  
     People with this kind of loose joint connection often have tight thigh muscles and lower legs.  With my special FREE coaching, I guide you to how to get the stretch BETWEEN the joints - You learn what kind of positions to get yourself into & how to pull the fascia so you lengthen the actual fascia through the whole muscle lines and areas.

   



Now, more specifics of what I teach you
WHY THIS IS A GOOD ELONGATION METHOD
Lengthen the fascia & 
Lengthen interconnected lines of muscles

IN A HURRY?  TOO MUCH INFO?  JUST READ THIS: 
Jump to the Heart of the Matter - "Fascia" Stretching 
      More length - easier, faster,  And it lasts longer.
 Then order or call Lou.


You learn to Stretch "Fascia" section by section - along long lines of
     interconnected muscles, instead of trying to stretch just one local "muscle"
     area a lot, the part that hurts.
I teach you to spread your large "Fascia" Body-Suit, & that makes
      your muscle Groups lengthen further, easier, faster - & they stay
      stretched, for longer.  They are also more organized so you get better
      Integrated Body Movement
Then you can adapt this method to more stretches that you do,  You can
    add your own stretches to do more, when done with these principles
      and when combined with the whole system of body length stretches, 
      these additional stretches also often go further & last longer.


Stretching fascia is really spreading the position of its millions of
      collagen protein fibers back out through its fluid, 
      to correct the bunching up of these fibers that your activities have caused. 
There are also interconnected muscles with tightness affecting the few
    muscles you are aware of - in other parts of the body.   Single
    muscle stretching methods don't  lengthen these, because they don't
    hurt; but, they would pull you back into pain if not also lengthened.
With "lines" of muscles lengthened, it is like pulling something when
    there is now, no one pulling back on the other end.


On the DVDs, you learn positions to lengthen many of these inter-
    connected "lines" of muscles.  You learn about your own body
    structure while you are also making yourself looser..  .
Your head to toe "structural alignment" improves, too.
    You're straighter again, as well as looser, and this eliminates
    a lot of people's low and other back pain.
And your Body's Muscle Groups, being more organized, therefore work
     to give greater strength, agility & endurance.





Fascia Re-lengthening
in a Whole Body way &
in a Muscle Group - by - Muscle Group way 
    is a much simpler, & I think faster way to correct tightness
    & tightness caused pain, than to try many methods of
    muscle rebalancing with exercises.
 
IN A HURRY?  TOO MUCH INFO?  JUST READ THIS:  Then order or call Lou.
Jump to the Heart of the Matter - "Fascia" Stretching 
  More length - easier, faster,  And it lasts longer
.
This is NOT a massage method,
Nor an exercise for balancing muscles.
It is a putty spreading method, restoring length out of bunched-up blobs or balls of tissue; like spreading bread dough or a blob of window putty back out along the length of the window.


Here's Why it works:
 
The muscle-bone system is already designed into our bodies, with the
     lengths of the muscle fibers and tendons already balanced with the
     lengths of the bones.  It is built into our DNA.  
The "culprit" is the shortness in the fascia of the muscles, all over the
     body, that makes a large number of muscles tight and short.
 When we re-lengthen the bunched-up fascia, then the balanced muscle
     fiber & tendon length to the bone length system, reappears,
     all by itself.  And we both stand and walk a lot freer as well as being
     more balanced.
The "key" is just to know how to do it well.   And that's what I teach you.

The nice part is that when the fascia is lengthened, it stays in the new
     position and for many people, takes a long time to re-bunch up
     again that much.  So if we stretch for a little bit often, or in a long
     session, periodically, we can keep relengthening back out the areas
     our daily & athletic activity creates. 


Stretching for Low Back Pain as well

An  "integrated structure" lengthening approach is also a very good
      way to correct the misalignment cause of low back pain.
For more Back info - please see Back Fix Book Menu Page on site -
     the long blue article explains a lot, then below it, see the book's
     table of contents & chapter excerpts - especially the Introduction.






TESTIMONIALS
 FOUR  LISTS
  1.  Here are Yoga Experts & Athletes-Coaches
  2.  A Lot of Everybody's Testimonials
  3.  Immediate Improvements Testimonials
  4.  Info Page Bodyworker Testimonials, for all the Videos 

Thank you Lou Gross, for a program more effective than
    anything else I've ever experienced. I would definitely
    recommend it to any person who uses their body as a tool
    in their profession and requires exceptional performance.
    Senior Athlete, Age 60, Professional Trainer & PNF Stretching Coach

Hi Lou,  I Received the DVD's on Saturday.  They're perfect.
   So Easy to follow & so informative. 
    Ms LK, Arizona

IN A HURRY?  TOO MUCH INFO?  JUST READ THIS:  Then order or call Lou.
Jump to the Heart of the Matter - "Fascia" Stretching 
      More length - easier, faster,  And it lasts longer.


TESTIMONIALS
Yoga Experts

Not just another Yoga Video.  This is new.  Watch part of the video.  Practice it.  Then watch some more.  I've been doing and teaching yoga for 20 years.  I've been trained by Ma Yoga Shakti.  And I learned some new things from this video that I've now incorporated in my own yoga practice, especially the technique of how to get more length by taking my attention into the muscles and spreading the fascia.  I also learned new positions in order to lengthen more of my structure.
Co-Director, Yoga Shakti Residential Country Mission, Florida

This adds a new dimension to stretching.  I'd never done this kind of stretching method before.  It is really effective.
Long time Yoga Student & Computer Software Company Owner

TESTIMONIALS 
Athletes Stretching & Bodywork
College Coaches & Trainers
   Plus Info about the Video,
   And How a Weight Lifter Got Looser

Applies to & increases results in other Stretching.
More Length, Faster, Easier.
One on One Detailed Show & Tell, & LOTS of Key Info
An Extra Tool Body Professionals Can Use w/Patients
Taught to individuals & classes for 20 years.
Explains How One Part of the Body Affects Others.
Helps active people noticeably.
Increases energy.
Takes Stress out of the body right away - even in a few min's.
 

Lots of effective, Hamstring & Back Stretches.
Increases Deeper & Fuller Breathing.
Shows how working many areas helps each specific area.
Even increases strength after weight training by
    re-lengthening and organizing the muscle groups.
Helps maintain flexibility.  Improves Sciatica & Pinched Nerves.
Maintains & Adds to Benefits from Str. Integration.
Work out - spread some fascia - work out - spread a little more


Increases mental focus, attentiveness, awareness
   and even intuitiveness.
Changes stressful tension into energizing, flowing energy.
Decreases negativity. 
Improves positive demeanor and kind expression.
Can even do in work clothes during the day.
Even a little at a time works well.
 

Great for gifts.    
Helps Weight Lifting & Health Club.
People really appreciate them.
Someone saw my videos at a friend's.
He got a lot of benefits from them.
So he bought for himself & for 3 other people

If YOU stretch already & want to know why this method is
    so effective,  click here to jump to the Heart of the Matter
More length - easier, faster.   And it lasts longer.
Better body Organization.
Lighter feeling, more uplift & better posture.
Greater & longer lasting flexibility & range of arm, leg & torso
    movement.

Explanation of my Hands-on How-to Videos
  Teaches Therapists, & Family & Athletes, too.
Ordering      Top of Page 
 

     
click photo for an additional stretching position


In Athletics, Pain Removal & from Body Therapists:
Testimonials - specific info on benefits

These are very good stretches you've shown me.  I can now stretch a lot further. 
English National Team TRACK & FIELD OLYMPIAN.

Besides the fact that the Bodywork loosened and lengthened my body all by itself, Lou even showed me how to stretch my body better on my own, so I could do the yoga class better.
Engineer,  age 66,
Avid Recreational RUNNER & SKIER and Year-long YOGA PRACTITIONER

Not just another Yoga Video.  This is new.  Watch part of the video.  Practice it.  Then watch some more.  I've been doing and teaching yoga for 20 years.  I've been trained by Ma Yoga Shakti.  And I learned some new things from this video that I've now incorporated in my own yoga practice, especially the  technique of how to get more length by taking my attention into the muscles and spreading the fascia.  I also learned new positions in order to lengthen more of my structure.
Co-Director, Yoga Shakti Residential Country Mission, Florida

This adds a new dimension to stretching.  I'd never done this kind of stretching method before.  It is really effective.
Long time Yoga Student & Computer Software Company Owner

I think the stretching exercises helped my back as much as
the hands-on Bodywork did.
(Showed him just 3 stretches from Tape 1.)
Computer Specialist & Community Orchestra Musician
Avid Recreational RUNNER & WEIGHTLIFTER

     Even a week later, the long term pain I'd removed from my right side and low back, from just the first part of Tape 1, are still gone.  I'd thought the side pain was in my liver, but it was just structural.  I also hadn't known there were so many positions I could do leg stretching in.
     Doing just the initial side to side stretches, holding them as long as Lou did, gave me an exercise workout that felt greater than my half-hour workout at Curves for Women earlier in the day.
     And overall, I found Lou's information easy to take in, he is very confident in his explanations, and I even started getting his "principles" down and was inventing my own stretching positions.
Health Educator
and Electro-Energy Health Equipment Manufacturer & Resource

    I've been working with a few clients and I tried some of the hamstring and lower leg stuff we went over.  They seemed to think it was very helpful.
Personal Trainer & Professional Athlete

    I often tell my massage therapy clients to also go to a Yoga class.  Now I can tell them to get Lou's Tape.  The information is very good and the stretches do lengthen the myo-fascia.  I felt better even from just the initial, multi-position torso sequence.  I've ordered two tapes already.
Massage and "John Barnes Method" Myo-Fascial Release Therapist

    As I watched Lou's Video, I saw more effective ways to do the stretching positions I was already doing and I saw ways to stretch areas I never stretch.  And I stretch daily.  The logic of Lou's better positions and method were immediately obvious.
    This is indeed an outgrowth of Lou's 20 years Structural Integration Bodywork experience.  I found his information, manner of explanation and demonstrations all excellent.
Long Term Senior Athlete and Personal Trainer,
     including PNF Stretching Certified.
(READ HIS 2-PAGE IN-DEPTH PRAISE OF THIS METHOD)

    Besides demonstrating and explaining the actual stretches, Lou explains why we want to do them to help ourselves.  He explains how the body can be made to work a lot easier, for the average person to follow.  And most other stretching videos don't explain like this.  Lou puts his hands on areas and explains the muscles there, the basics, and describes what we want to be doing with them and why, and how that helps us.
     Lou shows how to massage oneself.  Just 5 minutes massaging my left arm made it a lot looser.    And my whole body feels more relaxed.
Office Worker , Avid Social Dancer.

     We did Lou's stretches in the class on Structural Integration and fixing backs he gave.  I was impressed that you could fix the back without even touching it.  I liked how Lou taught us to actually lengthen the fascia in the appropriate places.  It's obvious from his teaching that Lou is well educated in his field.
Massage Therapy Student, Kaiser College

     I liked the whole stretching part in the beginning of Lou's class, to give the limbs a good range of motion.  It's something I would give to my clients.
Massage Therapy Student, Kaiser College

     I've had long term pain all over, and recently got 10 sessions of Rolfing (r) and now get trigger point therapy and chiropractic, so most of the pains are gone. Yet my neck is still sore and my deep muscles are still tight.
    I did Lou's first Video and felt so much lighter and even straighter.  Lou also analyzed my structural photos I sent him and he explained how I still have a big zig zag and indentation in my lower back with neck sticking forward.  And this misaligned shape is part of the inner tightness being there.
    Lou offered me advice on how to use the video stretches and to get more Bodywork.  By looking at the photos of me at the computer, Lou also gave me a suggestion about how to use the computer with less tightness and strain.
Computer Operator

   I really enjoyed the video (And haven't even gotten to the second tape yet... Still busy with all the moves on the first).  It's been really helpful.  It surprises me just how much work it is... I get huffing and puffing.  The low back pain & muscle tightness (my chief complaint) is doing much better.  I wonder why I didn't stumble onto stretching, earlier. 
   The video was nice.  Lou, I don't think you'll win any Oscars (stiff competition this year), but what you had to present, was presented well.  One can't help but see your heart in it.  You teach well.  Like I said before, you inspire me.
Chronic Back Pain Sufferer, age 45

       
       I also used to have a lot of low back pain from cycling.  Each time I'd cycle the pain would get worse.  Now I do these stretches before I cycle and no longer have the pain.        
Health Food Cafe Assistant Manager

         I've looked for many years for something to correct my ongoing neck pain; just the wrong turn or tweak and it would be in great pain for 2 weeks at a time.   I'd been to doctors, acupuncturists and other treatments, which helped, but didn't fix it.  I even had to get a job position that didn't tighten it and put it into pain. 
       Lou's stretching videos have taken the pain and severe tightness away.  It has also made me stronger.  Because of my stretching the way Lou taught, I can relax the muscles, and I have actually added an inch to my arms in just two months.  Before, I couldn't add any bulk from working out.
      Even my son has noticed the significant improvements.  At 60 years old, I now stretch daily and regularly go to the gym to work out. 
       People are looking for things like this to improve their health.  And there are reasons why this method works.  On the surface it looks very basic.  But getting into it, such as the special mouth and face stretches, I found my neck loosened up.  And every time I do the stretches I feel good.
        Lou also comments on the video how his own body is loosening while he is doing the stretches, and that showed me how I can overcome my fear of being harmed if I move my spine.  I can now drive down the road with the same bumps that I used to try to avoid, and I don't worry about it.  I have the confidence that it'll be OK and there won't be any suffering, pain or damage.
Retired Railroad Brakeman, Conductor, Supervisor


For more Back info - please see Back Fix Book Menu Page
     The long blue article explains a lot.






Testimonials
IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENTS

Right Away --  On the Phone Improvements,
Right Away --  Improvements from using the Videos

My legs feel SO MUCH  better, especially the left one, just from the mini-session I did in my office.  Day before yesterday I felt a warmness going up my spine.   My left eye has changed for the better.  God bless you.  Thank you so much for the guidance on the phone (she tried 2 special leg stretches in her office cubicle).  After receiving the tapes, practicing with Video 1 is doing wonders for my legs. 

Office Worker & Avid Social Dancer, Chicago

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I've Been Stretching Daily for 30 years & I learned things from Lou right in the free initial phone call with 3 stretches for both sides.   I went out & played squash right after  & my movements & performance were much better. 

Then I got the Stretching Videos.  Tremendous Stuff, wonderful, beautiful.  You even mention the muscle names & what they affect.

72 yr old Fitness Expert Athlete in Australia
 

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I played video 1, for the first time this morning and did the first 3 stretches.  I was amazed at the amount of effort it takes to do those stretches but they work wonders.  My torso feels much looser. 

In fact, those were the types of stretches I have been looking for for quite some time.  I needed something that would work the muscles at the same time I stretched.  And now I have found them.  It is amazing how loose and relaxed my muscles feel after just those 3 stretches.  And I even used to do yoga.

28 yr old New Mom with lots of back & other tightness-pains
FLORIDA

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Lou Coached me thru some of his stretches for 25 minutes - right there in an herb shop relaxation area, and my chronic hip pain was gone, my leg tightness was much better, and I felt taller, more upright & more flexible all over.  And I have been stretching & getting body treatments that did not fix this.

Mother, Teacher, age 52, Part time Ballet Dancer, Florida

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Dear Lou,

I cannot thank you enough for last night's hour long stretching session, which worked incredibly well, even over the phone ! 
It helped the tightness in my left shoulder and scapular muscles, and I learned some great new stretches that I look forward to implementing into my daily routine.  I must also say that the cracking in my neck has subsided greatly.  I look forward to receiving the DVD's !  I have tried a famous hot yoga, which helps, but your stretching program is better [for this].
Ms K.S., age 31, News Reporter, New Hampshire

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Lou is my patient.  He asked me to watch the videos to see what I thought of them.  They're wonderful !  I felt better and I bought the thorough foundational tape 1 for myself.  I use the video regularly.

Physicians' Assistant, age 35, Florida

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Please also read detailed info of how & why the Method works & improves upon other stretching, makes your existing stretches more effictive, teaches bodyworkers & you how to do hands-on, & more details of the first FREE long session & analysis
on home page first section - very informative.
 Home - Fixing Backs, Pain, Stress and Tightness with Structural Integration

Go to ordering Info    Go to Top of Page

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THIS IS:   Jump to the Heart of the Matter

    

The way Lou teaches, paying attention and being sensitive to you, gives people a feeling of connectedness with him while watching the tape.

Further, the feeling people get from actually "doing"
     each stretch, being more "freed-up" and pain relieved, 
     makes it a pleasing experience; 
     it's even fun. 
     And people feel more alive, with increased circulation, too.
Try the video and feel good.

"I want you to benefit from my expertise right in the middle of your busy life.  Even 2-5 minutes at a time helps refresh people.  Start doing it and you'll want to keep doing it.  It feels really good."    

I used to teach these to 70 and 80 year old folks, as well as young athletes, so they're easy to do and very effective at the same time.

1. These are definitely not all the stretches we can do. 
2. And that is the beauty of this educational program.  
3. People can use this method with Yoga & Stretching books
         to get more physical improvements out of them, too.  
4. Even just the first tape teaches you how to do this.
5. It's my goal to educate people in this missing link, what
        fascia is, and how to lengthen it and organize,
        integrate & align your body structure.
6.  The system is to show Stretching for Low Back pain as well
        as upper back and shoulder-neck and leg tightness & pain.


Definitely increases results from massages, myofascial release treatments & Structural Integration sessions.

Consult a physician before starting an exercise program.
And when you do the stretches, please do not pull against pain. 
Instead, switch to spreading fascia in different, interconnected areas, or in a
   cross-fiber spreading exercise.  Then try the first stretch again.  And
   keep loosening systemically round and round.  Call Lou for help - it's free.




     
 Note:  Professional Stretcher on Secluded Porch
 Position effectiveness requires what to do with different parts of the structure
 Get Dynamic Movement, Fascia Spreading Instruction for Whole System
 from Stretching Video

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT FASCIAL STRETCHING
  we lengthen the bellies of inter-connected muscles,
  not just to loosen joints.

HELPING REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURIES HEAL & RELEASING THE "INTERCONNECTED" TIGHTNESS ELSEWHERE.

  ** WITHOUT THAT RELEASING, THIS INTERCONNECTED
  "SHORTNESS" OFTEN MAKES THE AREA STILL HURT

  ** & THE BACK, ESPECIALLY, DOESN'T LET GO WITH
  ONLY BACK STRETCHING.

  ** VALUABLE TIP:  NECK PROBLEMS ALSO COME FROM HEAD
  TIGHTNESS & ARM SHORTNESS - ALL IN THE FASCIAL
  BUNCH-UP.  MY HOW TO WORK ON YOURSELF & HOW TO
  DO BACKS FOR YOUR FAMILY & FRIENDS VIDEOS SHOW YOU
  HOW TO LENGTHEN A LOT OF THIS PARTICULAR BUNCH-UP.
                                      
A key reason this method excels. 

One of the key errors with some stretching approaches is an isolated muscle approach rather than a more effective long lengthening whole body approach.

People think that where the pain is, is where they need to stretch.  That's a "symptom only" approach, and while local attention is very good for cuts, bruises and breaks, lengthening the whole soft connective system and all the muscle-bone-muscle-bone interconnections is what removes a lot of tightness.

This longer lengthening approach reduces the chance of repetitive strain injuries, or RSI, because it relengthens the interconnecting muscle-fascia tissue that keeps the local, repetitive strain or RSI area held tight.  

It's the fascial bunch-up shortness in other, interconnected areas, that often keeps the "problem area" from loosening up.   And with the old overall tightness, or shortness, present, it'll still be pulling on the injured area like a tight rubber band.

The same is true for a lot of lower back pains and muscle tightness.  The fascial shortness in the legs, pelvis, abdomen, chest, and even the neck and head, act to keep the lower back tight.

This method works to re-lengthen these interconnected areas all over the body.

You experience the releasing and learn about some of your body's interconnections.  And you learn the mind-into-body technique to spread the fascia longer.

Spreading Fascia
Your Secret Weapon for Greater Flexibility
Spreading fascia greatly, makes length, so vertebrae & other bones go back to where they're supposed to be.  And they'll often stop pinching nerves so much, releasing sciatica, too.

So Stretching the legs, pelvis and front of torso incl the
abdomen for low back pain and tightness reduces the
repetitive low back pain from activity, especially from running
& situps.

To make the fascia stretch easier & further, Read Foods for Structure
Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes


HOW TO EASILY LEARN A FEW STRETCHES & FIT THEM INTO YOUR BUSY LIFE

This is definitely not a tape you should feel it's a chore to do, like having to memorize a routine or assume a  yoga studio mind set.  There's no class led by the instructor that you have to keep up with.

So you don't have to go thru a 20-30 minute workout.  It isn't the kind of program where you "have" to "set aside time" to do exercise.

These stretches work right in the middle of your busy activities.  You can do even 30 seconds of one or two things and feel refreshed.

To learn it, just do as Lou is instructing you carefully & slowly, & try one stretch a couple of times.
Just learn a little at a time and incorporate just that into your daily life.

You can also just do it with Lou on the tape, as a
daily routine.  Or, take some of them and make it a sub routine in your other stretching, or watch a section of the video to stretch with Lou just a while.

You can do Stretching for Low Back Pain regularly
though the day with the leg stretches and front
& sides of the abdomen stretches, as well as the
elongation of the back after that stretching.

It can take just 3-5 minutes or more time if you want,
a number of times in the day or while running or
working out especially with weights & weight machines.

ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL - ON DAILY SHORT ROUTINES

    I've been using the videos and have memorized some of the stretches on the first tape.  I do them every morning and during the day when I feel tired.  It renews my energy.

     My mother is 71 years old and has been very tight, with a lot of toe pain and foot distortion.  She does the stretches, too, and she, also, has more energy from them.  The foot pain is gone as well.

        Health food store cafe Assistant Manager
        Stopped the pain she got from her bicycle rides

So, you don't have to put THIS video off, while you do your busy life.  Instead, turn it on for just five minutes at a time, or put it on in the background at low volume.  Five minutes of "my" stretching is a good stretch.  10 minutes is a big release.  We used to do an hour in the Senior Rec Centers.

REMEMBER:  Lou talks just to you, and pays attention to you, and an amount of tension, in your body, will go away right then.

And it can give you more positive energy right in the middle of your busy day.

Let Master Postural Integrator Lou Gross' wealth of knowledge & 24 years of experience help you, every day. 

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• Testimonials
• How to order & What's in each DVD Video
  
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• Why I use this "Integrated Structure" Approach
• It's a teaching Video for Massage & other therapists
• It's a Great Resource for Bodyworkers, Massage Therapists,  Doctors, Nurses, Chiropractors, Trainers, Physical Therapists - & their clients
• The key advantage of using this video, even if you also use other videos as well  - How it's Different from 
  other stretching videos (& it can help you do THEM with
  greater benefits)
• These are Home Made Videos of Excellent Information & Demonstration but also have some outdoor sounds on them as it was done in the outdoors with a wonderful view in the western US desert.
• Here's a detailed List of this Method's many Benefits
  and Features
• Here's another description of the Method's Approach
• Links to On Site Articles
• The Many Specific Benefits of Stretching - Guest Article

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This is an "Integrated Structure" approach to Stretching.

Actually, it's a re-lengthening of the fascia (fah sha) of "groups" of inter-connected muscles.

                     Fascia is the Soft Connective Tissue wrappings all around every muscle & all the way through them.  It's what gives the muscle its shape & it holds the muscle fibers in a bundle, at their full lengths, or when they're in restricted lengths, which happens when you're bunched up and tight.
                     At the ends of the lengths of the muscle fibers, the fascia changes, to become the thicker, tougher pieces of connective tissue called tendons.  The tendons connect the muscle body to the bones on either end.

                     So when the fascia gets bunched up and short, the tendon-muscle body-tendon length between the bones is then too short for the lengths of the bones and you get tightness, less flexibility and misalignment of your body parts, one to another. 
                          The fascial shortness, or bunch-up, can also cause pain and set you up for a tear or pull injury.  Further, it forces you to use other muscles to try to overcome this distortion, and that takes a lot of effort just to control movement.  This is a waste of energy and it just makes you tighter.
                          In fact, this misalignment and compensation often makes standing up straight only possible with a zig-zag, with the legs going forward and the back leaning backward.  This causes ongoing muscle tension all over the body.  And it can cause low back pain, sciatica and other pinched nerve and bulging disk conditions.

                     You see, while your muscles are specific pieces in different areas of the body, the fascia is a giant network of body suits, that covers the whole body from the skin to the bones, and from the head and hands down to the feet.
                         So fascial shortness is a whole body tightness where many areas are pulling tight on many other areas.  Getting looser requires lengthening the fascia, and doing it over large areas of the body.

                      That's why re-lengthening the fascia, a lot, and in a muscle "group" to muscle group way, can remove so much tightness and pain so fast, even those due to an accumulating shortness that took years to build up this far.

This is how yoga SHOULD be taught.
Bodywork client who was a yoga teacher (His emphasis)



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    This is Also a Teaching and Resource Video for Practitioners. 

The stretching and the hands-on how-to video lessons teach Massage Therapists, Trainers, Yoga Teacher, even MD's, DC's & Nurses who are used to thinking neuro-muscularly, and locally, how to also see the body as a big, interconnected unit, a fascial putty bodysuit, or a structural system of "whole body architecture."  

And it adds a new dimension to their work. 
A person's structure can be "systematically," & rather quickly, actually reshaped, for pain erasure & significantly increased performance. 

And it is an extra tool in your toolkit - Stretching for Low Back Pain.
See Bodyworker--Practitioner Testimonials, for all my Videos

                         If you're a massage or other body therapist, used to thinking in terms of nerve and muscle tightness, agonist and antagonist, stretch reflex or PNF, you're getting some good results.
                         This method will now educate you about whole body "lengths of fascia," and interconnected muscle-bone-muscle-bone networks. 
Read HELPS CLIENTS

The stretch results will then be much greater and you'll better understand head-to-toe Structural Architecture, muscle group organizing & fascial re-lengthening.
                           
Even PNF Stretching can do more; it'll release the muscle fibers in many muscles, into the longer fascial envelopes that the Connective Tissue Spreading Stretching has created. 

So neuro-muscular re-lengthening works with the muscle fibers and nerves as before.  Now, the muscle fibers can go back into more of their full lengths since the fascial length is more correct.  And this improvement is Very noticeable.

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• Intro Article on Structural Integration - Covers many topics & links you to other articles on site.
• Fixing Accumulated Shortness - Why your back pain & tightness is due to tightness all over your body & why this approach works better & faster to correct the tightness and pains than other methods.
• Improving Athletic Performance - How this method makes your body work much better and why I am good at it.
• Free Articles & Booklets Menu Page - Lots of free in-depth information
• Detailed - Olympic Athlete Testimonials - of my Hands-On  Bodywork
  "The quality of the athletes, these Olympians, and what they said, adds validity to Lou's work."
  Avid Cyclist & Long Time Athlete, age 59
• Professional Bio - About Master Postural Integrator Lou Gross
  "Lou's Background & Training are quite impressive."
  Hellerwork (c) Structural Integration Client & sciatic pain sufferer
• Read Foods for Structure. To make the fascia stretch easier & further,
   
• For more Back info - please see Back Fix Book Menu Page
       on site - the long blue article explains a lot, then below,
       the table of contents and chapter excerpts,
       especially the Introduction, also explain a lot.
  
  
  Ordering    Top of Page
  
  Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes
  
  
  
  Click photos to enlarge
  
      For Practitioners
  Structural Integration &, Myo-fascial release Bodyworkers, Massage Therapists, Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, Nurses, Physical Medicine MD's, & Chiropractors.
  
  With this video I can assist you in helping your patients.
  For both self-help & to make the session itself more effective.  
  Wholesale discounts to practitioners.
  
  Useful in Professional Body-Therapy Sessions
  Stretching for Massage, Bodywork, Chiropractic, Personal Training, Physical Therapy, Athletic Training Rooms, Orthopedics
  Teaches people how to lengthen - or spread - their fascia,
        in interconnected muscles way -which also enables neuro-muscular, massage & strengthening activities to do more.
  
  Even if you use Stretching already, these demonstrations with instructions & "integrated structure insight" can add to your repertoire.
  
  This adds Fascial Lengthening & Structural Alignment to
   Massage Only & Chiropractic treatments.  EASY TO DO.
   I DO IT IN MY OWN MASSAGE & CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENTS.
   Before Chiropractic, I get more vertebrae in, it is easier,
     it lasts longer.
  After Massage, I stretch easier & faster.
  
  In a Session or in your Day,
  Just add 2-5 minutes before/after the hands-on
  You might be surprised how Much Loosening opens.
     Use it as A Routine, or Shorter Sub-Routines
       through the day, even 2-5 minutes at a time, in clothes.
  
  Therapists can stretch in the beginning of the session with their client & At the end, too.   Your arms & back & legs will like it.
  
  Helps your clients align the structure & often get more out of YOUR hands-on - So they'll recognize you are better than many others.
  
  REMOVES TIGHTNESS FROM CAR & COMMUTE RIDES & REMOVES STRESS AT WORK.  ARMS EXERCISES REMOVES TIGHTNESS FROM COMPUTER WORKING ALL DAY.
  Helps even with Low back Pain, etc.
  
  Videos are also something you can give or sell to clients for them to
  do at home.
  
  Two Separate Pages
  DETAILS:  What's in the videos & some info on combining them
  DETAILS:  Long Q & A on Structure, Backs, Pains, Misalignment, Interconnected Muscles
  
  Practitioners & athletes know it's important to re-lengthen the tightness that happens as strengthening exercises are done.  This helps do that, in session, in the health club & at home.  
  
  "I've been working with a few clients and I tried some of the hamstring and lower leg stuff we went over.  They seemed to think it was very helpful."  Personal Trainer & Professional Athlete
     
  Structural Integrators, Massage Therapists & Physical
          Therapists can also use this in a Session, as I do,
          interspersing specific stretches with the Hands On or
          starting & finishing with a few, key Whole-Body
          lengthenings. 
  It gives greater results & teaches them things like how to
          lengthen the front shortness to release the back and
          let them stand up straighter & lighter.
  I even coach my clients through additional stretches they
         do, teaching them how to lengthen the fascia better,
         and over long, interconnected areas.  They like getting
         easy, head & arm lengthening that they can extend
         all the way to their legs.
  
  Many Body therapists & health practitioners of all kinds encourage their clients to stretch, even show them a couple stretches and encourage them to go to a yoga class.  But often, that's not enough for these folks, especially those that work out regularly.
  
  And people who are very busy just don't have time to go to classes outside of work & home.
  
  And there's usually not time for showing more than 1 or 2 stretches.  Besides which, the client has nothing to take home and practice with, like a video or a book.
  
  Now, there's a TWO HOUR stretching video, "specialized" to have your clients maintain, and even enhance, what you do hands-on for them.
  
  And since low back pain is a very common problem with this information and the techniques you will be able to help more people.
  
  And as I, myself do, these techniques can be used before & after hands-on, to noticeably increase the results for specific areas you're working on. 
  
  This video also teaches about how tightness develops and exactly how to do about 40 stretches, exactly where they should be feeling it lengthen, how to modify them slightly to get length in nearby areas, how to invent their own stretches for tight areas, & how to use this method with other stretches & yoga to make them stretch better, too.
  
  It teaches the causes of developing low back pain and even upper and middle back pain, and how to stretch and do your hands-on or other methods to lengthen the necessary areas.
  
  Clients & patients can take it home, learn the positions and my fascial lengthening approach, that they can apply anytime in the day, as well as at the health club.  They can continue to stretch along with Lou, conveniently, in their own home.
  
  It's less expensive than months of yoga classes.  And busy people will more likely do a tape at home than go out daily.
  
  Besides Structural Integrators & Massage Therapists, this easy to do approach has also benefited patients & clients of doctors, nurses, physical therapists, chiropractors & trainers, including college & professional athletic trainers.
  
  Why it Helps Chiropractic.  Chiropractors know excessive muscle tightness causes compression & misalignment in the spine.  Spreading fascia greatly, makes length, so vertebrae & other bones go back to where they're supposed to be.
   
• It has been taught in my classes to seniors in their 60's, 70's & 80's, to back pain sufferers & to Olympic & professional athletes
• very effective stretching results for 20 years
• Created, demonstrated & explained by a
          Structural Integration Bodyworker
          with 20 years experience
• Actually teaches people how to
          - lengthen their fascia,
          - free up interconnected pulling, &
          - better align their bodies.
• Described in a clear, step-by-step manner, while being visually shown
• Nice looking, with a western desert background
•  Easy to understand information about the misalignment cause of back pain and how to stretch to help correct it.
• Includes, how to lengthen the fascia from muscle to muscle up and down interconnected sections of one's own body.
• People are able to use these principles to get more length in their yoga, Pilates or aerobics class, and in the gym or on the athletic track.
• Definitely, I've always seen it have the Bodywork do more, easier, when some is done between my sessions or at the beginning of a session, and it clearly lengthens the whole body in an interconnected way, at the end or soon after a session.

I have also helped both an elite track athlete and a health club staff member remove their sciatic pain with just 40 minutes each of THIS KIND of stretching method, with these specially designed positions.

Spreading fascia greatly makes length, so vertebrae & other bones go back to where they're supposed to be.

This is how yoga SHOULD be taught.
Bodywork client who was a yoga teacher (His emphasis)

How to order & what's in each video     Top      Home      Testimonials     
Both Videos 1 & 2 Include          Read TEACHES PRACTITIONERS



     Advantages of THIS Video's Presentation - I have videos, why should I also get this one?

One Yoga Teacher-Client told me, "This is how yoga should be taught."  
Learning to re-lengthen the fascia part of your muscles enables ALL your stretching to do more, and more enjoyably, including PNF.

This is NOT a follow along with the class video
Instead - Lou teaches you one-on-one
40 Exercises
   & the Method's How-to Explanations
   Plus, why we do it this way.
With Helpful info about our structure & its tightness.

Rather than just following a fitness expert doing
stretches, which is definitely good, THIS video gives you 2-HOURS of Body Information EDUCATION, from a Structural Integration EXPERT.  I find applying the technique in this video helps me get greater lengthening when I do these other videos.

This isn't a rehearsed, studio production. It's a video made as "actual instruction sessions" to my client, while she was filming me, done outdoors at a western desert home.  It's also not an actual exercise class with the Instructor Expert leading the way.  But here, too, using the techniques in this video, I get more stretch right in the middle of my exercising.

You get a "personal communication," an in-depth show and tell.

And you'll learn valuable information about your body structure, and about fascial spreading & structural integration; information that other videos, physicians, massage therapists, & even yoga teachers usually don't tell us,

Read about Integrated Structure Approach

How to order & what's in each video
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Read HELPS CLIENTS     
Read TEACHES PRACTITIONERS
Both Videos 1 & 2 Include
Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes
 

This is Bodywork Stretching, 
to Make Your Structure Work Better
Structural Integration Bodywork Approach - by Stretching
It's for Performance Improvement
as well as tightness release

Lengthens, and Even Better Organizes, the Muscle Groups
   & the Interconnected Muscle "lines," connecting sections of
   the body, (like neck into chest, belly & back, or neck, or arms
   through chest and abdomen into the pelvis) so that individual
   muscles can re-lengthen further, easier & faster.
Helps to align the structure vertically & Improve Posture
So when you understand alignment & interconnected
    stretching and Bodywork you will know how to prevent
    low back pain and other back, neck etc pain in working out.

A MAJOR DIFFERENCE between this stretching
& what my trained eye can see in professional
athletes, including golfers, is

That instead of just seeing looseness at the joints, and some
   looseness in the bellies of the muscles, this fascia spreading
   method & inter-connected muscles in groups method,
   PURPOSELY lengthens the bellies of the muscles, a LOT,
   & separates the gluing of one muscle body from another.
  
Then the "joint" feeling of rotation & looseness
     also comes from the muscles & muscle groups themselves.
     There is then even greater flexibility immediately & greater
     power with more whole body participation in the
     movements.

I show you a way to relengthen the bunch-up that you created
    as a side effect in your athletic or work activities.
    You stretch the fascia to remove the muscle tightness.
    And you lengthen the interconnected areas that were
    causing the back, low back, neck, pelvis and shoulder
    pains & muscle tightness.

Read An Explanation of the difference between Fascia & Muscle Fibers &
     what gets bunched-up short in what we colloquially call "muscles."
Read This is Not Yoga - brief - KEY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES
Read This is not what looks like other stretches,
     what you might already be dong.

**  It's based on a Scientific Understanding of how muscles actually work, that we use in the Hands-on Bodywork.

**  I invented these stretching positions & started teaching them in my clients & seniors' classes for 23 years.

**  I added the method's techniques to my Intensive Yoga & some athletic stretching, to show you how to use them to get more length, IF, you modify them somewhat.

**  Intersperse this stretching with sections of a massage session for greater length & loosening that lasts longer.  Stretching for massage, bodywork, chiropractic, personal trainers.

Consult a physician before starting an exercise program.
And when you do the stretches, please do not pull against pain. 
Instead, switch to spreading fascia in different, interconnected areas, or in a
   cross-fiber spreading exercise.  Then try the first stretch again.  And
   keep loosening systemically round and round.  Call Lou for help - it's free.

If YOU stretch already & want to know "why" this method is
    so effective,  click here to jump to the Heart of the Matter
    explanation.    More length - easier, faster.   And it lasts longer.
    Also seems to make all other stretching positions work better, too,

     Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes

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Questionnaire to provide Info for Lou


GREAT FOR YOUTHS , SCHOOL TEAMS & FAMILIES
I used to treat the Best Jr. College Track Team in the State of California  I've worked on teenagers & kids to age 3.

     GREAT FOR EVEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GYM CLASS,
     HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETES.
     10K & MARATHON RUNNERS - see the Bodywork Testimonials
     SENIORS IN THEIR HOMES - I used to do classes in Senior Centers
     MANAGERS IN HIGH STRESS WORK - performance improved, too

Helps Prevent Injuries in Young Athletes & Performers
    and even helps musicians & singers perform better.

    Along with My Structural Integration Stretching videos the Hands-on How-to videos together or individually, enable parents, friends & coaches or teachers to prevent young athletes from tearing or pulling muscles caused by the tight structures their weight work or running might have made them.  And it will then increase their performance noticeably.

     Parents can work on the kids on a bed or living room floor
 even while watching TV.  Athletes & dancers can work on
 each other right where they train.

Special Price breaks for High School & College Coaches
   in exchange for using my methods to help your teams & then
  providing me with descriptive testimonials of successes.
  Helps you - & Helps me help many other athletes & coaches

See Athletes, Performers, Sports Medicine BOOK Info Page w/excerpts
See Info on hands-on how-to videos
See Bodyworker--Practitioner Testimonials, for My Videos

For more Back info - please see Back Fix Book Menu Page
    The long blue article explains a lot, then below that,
     the table of contents and chapter excerpts,
     especially the Introduction, also explain a lot.

Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes


A FEW OF LOU'S "ATHLETIC" CREDENTIALS

• Lou makes my body work the way it's supposed to work.
         The World Record Holder, Long Jump,   
         2-Time U.S. Olympian Silver Medalist 
• Nine hours of hands-on treatment corrected pain, misalignment, and chronic  tightness, and my overall flexibility has improved quite a bit.  Lou is a miracle worker!   
          The World Record Holder, Triple Jump
           3-Time U.S. Olympian  
• In one 4-hour bodywork session, Lou's treatment cured my left hamstring condition, which had been troubling me for nearly three weeks and it improved my overall condition as well.
            The 6-Time British Women's Middle Distance Running
                Champion
            3-Time British Olympian

Please note:  These are home-made videos, done outdoors and relatively un-edited.  So the content is excellent - we made them after I was working with five people for a month, doing "structural" stretching as an integrated part of the Bodywork sessions.  So my 20 years experience just flows out to you.

However, there are sometimes background noises that you wouldn't hear in a studio produced tape.  These include some wind in this beautiful desert, an airplane or two flying overhead, an airborne express truck pulling up, and a bunch of dogs barking for a little while,  None of these noises interferes with the video portion and I am always available to fill in any gaps you may have.  

Basically, I have been teaching this stretching approach to clients, athletes and seniors' classes since 1983.  And it really helped them.  Finally, in 2003, some people were kind enough to video me doing them and teaching them after a wonderfully "involved" month of being "in" my profession. 

Now, with the videos and our one-on-one phone or email conversations, people all around the world can get the same kind of careful instruction I have given individual clients in person for over 20 years.

But you have to accept the funny noises.

Also, this is an instructional video, so it will teach you a whole bunch of stretches to work on your whole body and on specific areas, including what interconnected muscles to also lengthen. And it will teach you a mind-into-body method for better stretching in all your stretches.  

But by giving all this descriptive instruction, it will take longer to go thru the stretching with this video, than say, a 20-30 minute routine you would follow each morning on your TV.  My major purpose has so far been to give you a practice you can do throughout the day, and even tailor it to your own needs, including what interconnected areas to also lengthen.

Some people have asked for the kind of short "follow along with Lou" program as well, to be done after you know how to do the stretches.  Are you interested also?

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Hands-on How-to Videos for Therapists, Family & Athletes

Testimonials for these Stretches - on this Web page, below
Read   Immediate Improvements Testimonials
Read   A Lot of Everybody's Testimonials
Read   Yoga Experts, Coaches & Trainers Testimonials
   includes low back pain, muscle tightness, neck & shoulder pain
Read  Info Page Bodyworker Testimonials, for all the Videos 

See My Original On-site Bodywork Explaining Articles   
Muscle Tightness Loosening Bodywork Approach     Stretching Tips Article
Sports Medicine Benefits    &   Hamstring Lengthening
Free Articles -over 20 - Menu   
Structural-Nutritional-Emotional Healing Approach for Fibromyalgia

See Overviews & Excerpts of Original Informative Books
Back Fix BOOK     Athletes, Performers, Sports Medicine BOOK 

Testimonials for My 24 yrs of Bodywork Expertise
The Stretches Are Extensions of this Bodywork Approach
The Self Help Hands-On teaches you how to do some of it
Olympic Athletes      Back Pain      Other Pains & Tightness      Seniors
Increases Yoga Ease & Abilities     Improves Meditation Power

  Contents Menu for DVD 1 -- Click Photo to enlarge

Why THESE DVDs work better than most other stretching
   & the METHOD also makes all other stretching work better

CLICK THIS FIRST
1.   Right Off the Bat - The Key Points of Fascial Lengthening
         & How it's not Yoga
2.   Plus - how it helps with Pilates, Yoga, Dance to make them work better
         & it really does do that !

CLICK THIS SECOND  (any line)
3.  HANDS-ON How-to DVD's
          Teach YOU, stroke by stroke how to release your own head,
          Shoulders, Neck, Chest-Breathing, Upright Posture, Pelvis, Legs, Arms,
          Stress, IMPROVING THE STRETCHING & CHIROPRACTIC,
     TEACHES MASSAGE THERAPISTS & FAMILY-FRIENDS how to
          Release your back tightness, head & stress, & make you more erect-upright
          & Lengthens-Loosens Legs & Pelvis for Runners, Athletes, Dancers, SENIORS
    Includes a Link to a separate page that adds even MORE info of what is on each
    DVD & how to use them together.

Costs & Ordering
Costs & Prices, Includes Discounts in Packages of DVD's
CALL LOU TO ORDER IMMEDIATELY - NO ORDERING FROM WEBSITE
YOU GET PERSONAL CONSULTATION & GUIDANCE AS WELL, FREE

When Contacting Lou, You May Do it Immediately, OR,
  You May include More Details Now or Later.
CHECKLIST of YOUR condition Page: 
   Structural Information - What to tell Lou - explain only what is appropriate for you
Long Info Page:  DETAILS ABOUT WHY YOU MAY BE HAVING TIGHTNESS:
   Q & A on Structure, Backs, Pains, Misalignment, Interconnected Muscles
Back Problems? 
   Read the Blue Informative Narrative & excerpts from the Back Book

How Practitioners Use these to Help Clients - & We DO.
CLICK THIS LINE for "Practitioners Use these" - it has Links to
      Great For Structural Integrators You Can give Your Clients
        Structural Integration stretches - a video they can do at home that increases
         the ease and benefits of your hands-on sessions.  
       It also teaches non-Structural Integrators about Structural Integration. 
        Very helpful info to have.    Discounts to Bodyworkers.

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