
Foam Rollers
Self massage tools are becoming increasingly popular products in health care. Self massage allows you to prolong the benefits of your therapy session and continue to work out those tight, recurring problem areas.
Foam Rollers can be used in many ways to target specific areas and conditions of the body. The general method of using a foam roller utilizes body weight to apply pressure to the desired area, with the roller underneath. While the roller can be used for almost any area of the body, it has been found to work best for the legs.
When the foam roller originally came into use, athletes were instructed to use the roller to apply pressure to sensitive areas in their muscles, or areas of increased muscle density/tension sometimes called knots or trigger points. Today the roller is more commonly used to apply longer, more sweeping strokes to the large muscle groups such as the calves, quadriceps, and adductors and smaller
more directed force to areas...