Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy ®

Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy ® (PDMT) is a form of therapeutic massage that was started by Therese Pfrimmer. This massage is done quite deeply to work the muscles at a cellular level.

When muscles are injured the tissue tightens up. This tightening of tissue restricts the movement of blood and lymph in the muscle tissue. The muscle actually starts to become dried out and rigid due to the lack of circulation of fluids. Nerves become entrapped in this contracted tissue. This causes pain and tenderness in the injured area.

PDMT addresses this by using cross-fiber friction techniques to loosen muscle tissue. The work is quite deep and is used break up adhesions in the muscles at the cellular level. This allows lymph and blood to flow freely around the cells giving them the nutrients they need to repair and heal themselves.

PDMT was developed by Therese Pfrimmer. Pfrimmer was born in Brussels Belgium in 1908. In 1914, she moved to the United States with her family. In 1938, she moved to Canada. She started working in a laundry in a seaport town. While working in the laundry she developed partial paralysis. Pfrimmer started experimenting with massage to treat her paralysis. After much experimentation, she was able to cure herself.

Encouraged and impressed by her results, Pfrimmer went to massage school. She became a licensed massage therapist and a physiotherapist. She wrote a book about her massage technique called Muscles... Your Invisible Bonds In 1971, she opened Pfrimmer Technique Deep Muscle Therapy School to teach massage therapists about her effective massage therapy technique.

Pfrimmer deep muscle therapy ® can be used to treat a whole host of common ailments.

headaches
arthritis
carpal tunnel syndrome
heart problems
constipation
chronic pain
neck pain
back pain
paralysis
sciatic nerve pain
circulatory problems
tendonitis
bursitis

Pfrimmer Deep Muscle Therapy ® is a deep tissue massage that uses cross-fiber strokes to loosen all the layers of muscles tissue. It is different from Swedish massage based deep tissue therapy because the therapist's goal is not to push blood and lymph through the tissue towards the heart. The therapist's goal is to encourage the circulation of blood and lymph freely in the muscle tissue.

Though the therapy is quite deep it's doesn't have the painful reputation as Rolfing.