Hello everyone welcome to fit body happy joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about

foam rolling massage gunning any

Intervention massage where physical touch is applied to your skin, to your muscles, etc.

And what is that doing, what is it not doing, should we use it, how to use it, all of the things.

So we're going to get right into that.

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in I am not messing around today. We're going to get into what does foam rolling

massage gun massage all of those things. What is that doing for your body?

And I'm specifically referred to foam rolling today,

but a lot of this applies also to, again,

just any kind of physical pressure or physical touch. So what is it doing?

Mostly what a massage roller or foam roller is doing is it stimulating what's

called mechanical receptors.

Mechano receptors are these little organs that live in your tissues,

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