Danielle Cournoyer

FST™ is a unique system of assisted stretching that targets fascia and joints. Certified therapists use movement through a series of stretches to unlock tension in the deepest layers of tissues. The aim is to unravel restrictions in the fascia, relax the hold the nervous system has on the tissue, and open up the joint space by stretching the fascia throughout the body.

Fascia adhesions tend to occur at these congested areas after injury, surgery, inflammation, repetitive movement, or even after lack of movement (ex. sedentary lifestyle, injury recovery, poor posture).

Benefits of FST include: 

• Decreased pain
• Increased  mobility
• Reduced vulnerability to injury
• Improved posture, circulation, and joint health
• Improved physiology such as sleep, digestion, and energy
• Corrected structural imbalances (ex. leg length discrepancies).
• Down regulated nervous system for post activity restoration, regeneration, and lymph flush
• Up regulated nervous system for pre activity dynamic warm-up, corrective work and/or mental – emotional athletic preparation

P-DTR is a unique neurological therapy based on neurology, biomechanics, neurophysiology, anatomy and profound research. It works directly with Central Nervous System and has a logical scientific explanation for all of its teachings.

Unique to P-DTR as a therapy, is an understanding of the role that sensory nerve endings (which will be called ‘receptors’ henceforth) play in the function and processes of the central nervous system. P-DTR uses receptors as its entry point to understand, assess and treat all kinds of dysfunction, pain and symptoms that it is possible to experience in the human form.

To illustrate the scope within which P-DTR is capable of operating, we will borrow a well known analogy from the computer. Computers contain hardware, software and firmware. An example of the hardware would be the screen, the keyboard or the speakers. An example of the software would be Microsoft Word, or Windows XP.

In the human body we can apply the same analogy. The hardware is the bones, the ligaments, the organs, the nerves and blood vessels and the physical brain itself. The software is the communication within the CNS and its many interconnected functions. The firmware are the primitive reflexes we are born with as children and some of the autonomic unconscious functions that our bodies perform. The firmware would be the program that relays information from the on switch to the hard drive to instruct it to boot up the computer for use.

P-DTR as a therapy can be used primarily to treat the software and firmware components of the above analogy, however it also has an important role to play in treating the causes of some hardware problems such as chronic degenerative conditions, and also post operatively when changes have been made surgically to the structure or hardware of the body.