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Mi.To. therapeutic table - A guide to Global Postural System and myofascial release and lengthening

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In this guide we explore the use of the Mi.To therapeutic table beyond myofascial release and stretching. You’ll discover how to use the Mi.To’s unique features in postural awareness training, respiratory education, spinal mobilisations, muscle strengthening and much more…

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Foreword

“Over the many years working a physiotherapist I have become increasingly convinced that
the source of the majority of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries lies in faulty posture
and ensuing movement patterns. A thorough posture assessment and analysis is therefore
a crucial part of my clinical reasoning process when developing a treatment plan. With that
I aim to offer my patients effective and efficient treatments with a long lasting results. If we
can eliminate faulty posture and movement patterns, we create the right environment for
structures to heal and furthermore, we will prevent reinjury.
 
Our treatments always contain an element of posture improvement and reeducation. Therefore
the equipment we source for our practice must allow us to integrate healthy posture
and healthy movement into each treatment technique that we administer. The Mi.To./Sinthesi
therapeutic table is exactly one of those devices in which we found everything we are
looking for to do our therapeutic work. In this handbook I now would like to share how the
Mi.To./Sinthesi therapeutic table has revolutionised our therapeutic work. I am sharing over
8 years of clinical experiences in treating over thousands of patients.
 
Much credit must go to Benedetto Toso and Francesco Mignani, who are the original developers
and innovators behind the Mi.To./Sinthesi therapeutic table and the various techniques
that can be applied. Their original work provided a basis for my further thinking on
how the Mi.To./Sinthesi therapeutic table can be used in everyday therapeutic techniques.
 
I also do not want to forget to give thanks to Angelo Snidero and the entire Chinesport
team. Without the vision, innovative energy and passion to help people that Chinesport
has, these products and devices and this platform to communicate between therapists
would not exist. Chinesport does not only manufacture and sell devices, they go that step
further and offer therapists of all kind to gain knowledge and experience to excel in their
therapeutic work.”

- Stef Harley

About the author

Stef Harley
Graduated as a Master in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium in 1998. After working as a young physio for many different sports teams and as resident physiotherapist and S&C coach at Heiveld tennis school he moved to Slovenia. There he runs Synovia Fizioterapija, a private physiotherapy practice. Among his patients base he can count many celebrities and numerous top Slovene as well as international athletes, among which world champions and Olympic medalists. Stef is a published researcher, patent-holding innovator and clinical consultant to clubs, federations and professional organisations. He is a senior lecturer; lecturing in functional anatomy and clinical reasoning for physiotherapists. Stef regularly speaks at conferences, seminars and workshops about sports injuries and prevention, performance enhancement and posture improvement. 

Mi.To. - developed and designed by therapists for therapists

The name Mi.To. is derived from the combination of two respected and well-known names in rehabilitation in Italy; Francesco Mignani and Benedetto Toso. These two innovators worked closely together with Chinesport to develop Mi.To. with the specific needs of both therapist and patient in mind.

Benedetto Toso

Professor of posturology and kinesiology, founder and President of the Toso Back School, lecturer and international speaker.

“The Mi.To. therapeutic table is a useful tool for therapists to administer muscle stretching exercises in an effective and selective way, while avoiding potential compensation movements. In the event of acute low back pain, Mi.To. therapeutic table enables the patient to passively assume an antalgic position which helps to rebalance the spine and reduce pain. These important features make the Mi.To. therapeutic table a precious tool to have in both physical therapy practices and gyms. In fact, clinical practices and gyms can use more than one Mi.To. therapeutic table because patients can work independently in performing different exercises without the direct intervention of a therpist.” 

Francesco Mignani

Degree in physiotherapy, specialised in osteopathy,  director of the Biochinesis center in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, Italy.

"The Mi.To. is designed to be more than a therapy table; it is a multi-purpose therapeutic device to assist in treatments ranging from massage to a wider-ranging, global posture reeducation approach. From manual therapies to posture, or from posture to manual therapies; whatever your preferred therapeutic approach, the Mi.To. therapeutic table allows you to seamlessly integrate all therapeutic modalities. The Mi.To. therapeutic table eases the therapist’s job by providing a continuity for the patient from manual treatments to postural exercises. This also means that from more passive treatment to more active exercise, the patient will become more and more familiar with what to expect from the Mi.To. therapeutic table.[...]"

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