MELT Away Tension and Instability

MELT Performance is a simple self-care method focused on restoring the supportive qualities of connective tissue and improving joint stability and balance. As MELT creator Sue Hitzmann explains, although 100% of the time the brain is what causes the sensation of pain, when pain is chronic, there is an issue in the connective tissue — it’s not just in our mind. 

Daily living and our repetitive postures and movements can cause excessive tension and compression on this tissue, which degrades fascia’s supportive qualities. In MELT, this is called “stuck stress.” Even if you don’t have chronic pain symptoms, we’ve all experienced stuck stress accumulation. Have you ever sat for a period of time and, when you got up, you felt like you aged 20 years because your joints don’t move as well as they did when you sat down? 

If we never learn how to reduce the accumulative stress in the tissue, fascia over time loses its supportive qualities, and as it does, every system in our body suffers. Our joints get stiff, our muscles lose their flexibility and elastic properties, our posture declines, and, more importantly, our nervous system gets stressed out trying to manage our overall stability. This can lead to systemic issues like slow metabolism, weight gain, fatigue, and digestive issues. 

MELT Performance helps break this cycle of compensation and stuck stress by restoring stability on every level — not just structural. MELT Performance can help you maintain physiological, emotional, chemical, hormonal, and psychological stability too, because the autopilot is the system that provides all levels of stability. This program really is a game-changer.

MELT Performance is unique because it focuses on the stabilizing mechanisms that need to be present before efficient movement occurs. Members who attend class regularly have noticed improvement in their gait, better shoulder and hip stability, and a stronger more functional core. Getting a better night’s sleep is an added bonus!