The use of tender points is not unique to Counterstrain, and many modalities treat them, though they refer to them by their established trigger point moniker. The crucial distinction is that Fascial Counterstrain does not treat the tender points, but rather, their symptom-driving structures, which are the structures harboring the source inflammation.

Anyone seeking to understand the essence of Fascial Counterstrain from a a verbal explanation must be acquainted with physiological topics that fall beyond the conventional. The need for a compendium that the patient can access at their leisure is what drove me to write "That Was Not A Muscle – How Counterstrain is Transforming My Pain Therapy Practice." This is the final manuscript approved by Brian Tuckey himself—the innovator of the Fascial Counterstrain system—to be pres