Medical Putkisto is a way of stretching that provides relief to the muscles and improves breathing. This is a new method that involves deep stretching and breathing procedure that helps in improving muscle balance and co-ordination. This is a complimentary method of healing the tensed or tight muscles and aims at providing the right ways of stretching so as to maintain fitness.
History
This can be considered as a method of muscle balancing. This was initially introduced by Marja Putkisto. While working on different techniques of improving muscle strength and fitness, she realized the importance of muscle balance, breathing and circulation as the basics of fitness technique.
Principle
Medical Putkisto is based on the principle that muscles tend to become short and tight and thus become the potential cause for many musculoskeletal problems and injuries. Thus if these muscles are trained to perform deep stretching, the overall fitness and posture can be improved.
Method
According to Medical Putkisto, deep stretching is the key to healthy and supple muscles. Just as any sports basics, it believes that good stretching and breathing techniques are essential for successful and safe fitness training. The muscles to be exercised must balance and properly co-ordinate in order to allow them to function appropriately.
This can make the muscles more elongated and give them the freedom of movement without causing any harm to them or to the surrounding tissues. When this technique is used correctly it will use less energy in warming up and correct ways of breathing will help in channelizing the energy. Thus oxygen is also used effectively and the entire body can reap its benefits.
Therapy sessions can be performed singly or in groups under the guidance of a trained therapist.
Benefits
This therapy can be used by people at all ages and various fitness levels. This can be of great use for people involved in physical acts like athletes, sports person, dancers and gymnasts.
Some of the benefits obtained by this therapy are
- Shaping into supple and strong body
- Increasing the strength and balance of body muscles
- An improved body posture
- Improvement in breathing, and circulation, thus increasing the energy levels
- Improving body reactions and better concentration
- Improved body and spatial awareness
- Enhancement in body movements and freedom of range of motion
- Having relaxed muscles thereby reducing complaints of neck, shoulder and back pain.
