Assisted Stretching Guide - Choosing the Best Practioner

FOR ALL PRACTITIONERS - FST for your clients/patients

Lateral Net stretch

Many practitioners specializing in various fascial therapies use the term “lateral line” when referring to the entire lateral or outside region of the human body. We call it the “lateral net” (or LN) to describe essentially the same thing, but with more of a 3-dimensional attribute.

ONLY IF you have experience stretching your clients/patients, do we encourage you to try this FST movement but only AFTER you 1) agree with our waiver of liability, 2) you conduct an assessment that stretching is indicated and/or appropriate for the individual, and 3) you familiarize yourself with the following main precautions and contraindications (there are many others not listed). DO NOT try this stretch if you do not have EXTENSIVE experience and confidence!

• CONTRAINDICATIONS: recent unhealed injuries; new pain of any kind; medical conditions of any kind (physical, mental, emotional); joint conditions of any kind (instability, hyper mobility, arthritis); any pain with stretching.
• INDICATIONS: excessive tension, soft tissue restrictions to glide/slide, or scar tissue in any muscles and fascia within the LN.

Main individual muscles and fascia that lie within the LN include: fibulari, iliotibial tract, tensor fasciae latea, gluteus medius, and the superior fibers of the gluteus maximus, transversus abdominus, external and internal obliques, latissimus dorsi, intercostals, scalenes, upper trapezius).