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How you can MELT
UNDERSTANDING
your health
Daily living creates stress and tension within your body. Physical stressors may range from sitting at a desk to running a marathon. Emotional, mental, and environmental stressors also put strain on your body.
It is this repetitive stress of daily living that literally gets stuck in the connective tissue, which surrounds every joint, muscle, nerve, bone and organ. “Stuck stress” accumulates and causes dehydration in the connective tissue, which interferes with the nervous system’s ability to regulate itself and slows down the body’s natural healing process.
This creates a domino effect that begins with aches and stiffness and leads to common health issues such as neck and low back pain, headaches, insomnia, digestive problems and injury. Accelerated ageing and chronic health problems can follow, leaving us with limited options such as medication, surgery, and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle.
That's where MELT can help!
What is the MELT Method?
Following research that revealed the missing link to pain-free living - a balanced nervous system and healthy connective tissue - New York therapist and connective tissue specialist Sue Hitzmann created the ground-breaking neurofascial science and hands-on treatment - The MELT Method® (MELT).
This simple self-treatment technique that directly addresses stuck stress and slows down the ageing process by rehydrating the connective tissue and rebalancing the nervous system. No other approach directly treats these two systems – including nutrition, exercise, or meditation.
MELT works with the neurofascial and connective tissue systems, helping structural relationships of alignment, tension and compression between the soft tissues and bones, the nervous system and your 'body sense'.
How does the MELT work?
MELT uses four different small balls as well as a soft body roller, it rehydrates the connective tissue, rebalances the nervous system, and restores the space to compressed joints.
Whether injured, post-surgery, pregnant, overweight, chronic pain, knee or hip replacement or bone disorders - you can still MELT.
A variety of techniques are used to assess what is happening now followed by MELTing techniques of position point pressing, gliding, shearing, rinsing, friction and reassessing.
You can learn to MELT in a class and at home. The MELT hand and foot treatments use five techniques to create whole body changes that reconnect, rebalance, rehydrate and release.
Who MELT for?
MELT is truly for everyone!
MELT is for anyone who wants to slow down the ageing process and live pain free. For those in their 40s, 50s, 60s and older who want to stay active, mobile and independent – MELT is a must.
MELT is also for active younger adults and athletes who want to maintain a fit, healthy body and achieve optimal performance without debilitating wear and tear.
Even if you are pregnant, injured, post-surgery, overweight, sedentary, out of shape or have limited mobility, chronic pain, knee or hip replacements, or bone disorders – you can still MELT. It’s the best starting point for any exercise and wellness programme.
What are the benefits to MELT?
MELT is easy to learn and creates results you will see and feel in the first session.
Changes in alignment, flexibility, energy, mood and performance occur within only a few sessions. And over time MELT heightens your body’s ability to repair and heal itself, which can create remarkable, lasting changes.
Best of all, your body feels great long after you MELT!
MELT improves:
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flexibility
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alignment & posture
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the results of exercise
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joint mobility
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sleep & digestion
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overall well-being
MELT reduces:
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aches & pains
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wrinkles
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cellulite
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tension & stress
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headaches
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the risk of injury
How often can I MELT?
MELT is so gentle that you can do it every day. Yet all it takes is just 10 minutes, three times a week, to experience immediate and long-lasting benefits. Drink a glass of water before and after you MELT to achieve the maximum results.
When you exercise, MELT before strength training to improve muscle performance and joint alignment or after a cardio workout to erase joint compression and stiffness and enhance muscle recovery.
People who MELT regularly find that they want to exercise more often. It’s just more fun to move when your body feels good, has more energy and is free of pain.
Is MELT like myofascial?
Although MELT is complementary with other treatments, practices and workouts, it is unlike any other technique because it directly addresses an entirely different system of the body.
MELT is to the neuro-fascial system (nervous and connective tissue system) what exercise and rehabilitation are to the musculoskeletal system. The scientific principles and direct self-treatment of the neuro-fascial system are being introduced for the first time by Sue Hitzmann and MELT.
Even better, adding MELT to your current routine can boost the results of whatever else you’re doing.
Who created MELT?
Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT, is the creator of the MELT Method, a simple self treatment technique that helps people get out and stay out of chronic pain.
A nationally recognised educator, manual therapist, exercise physiologist and founding member of the Fascial Research Society, Sue is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method: A Breakthrough Self-Treatment System to Eliminate Chronic Pain, Erase the Signs of Aging, and Feel Fantastic in Just 10 Minutes a Day!
Is MELT approved?
Yes, MELT has been reviewed by internationally respected doctors, neuroscientists, and connective tissue researchers, including Ben Domb, M.D.; Tom Myers; Gil Hedley, Ph.D.; Robert Schleip, Ph.D.; and Jean Pierre Barral, D.O.
Each expert has recognized that MELT is grounded in scientific principles and offers extraordinary benefits. MELT is being used by practitioners in fitness, sports, wellness, rehabilitation and hospital settings.
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