JANMI Soft Tissue Therapy

JANMI Soft Tissue Therapy Soft Tissue Therapy by Paulius Jurasius

Marylebone desk pros — if your first steps in the morning feel like stepping on a secret LEGO, your plantar fascia may b...
26/02/2026

Marylebone desk pros — if your first steps in the morning feel like stepping on a secret LEGO, your plantar fascia may be irritated.

Try this before you walk to the kettle:
✅ 30 sec warm rub under the foot
✅ 30 sec calf stretch (knee straight)
✅ 30 sec calf stretch (knee bent)
✅ 6 x 5 sec “short foot” arch activation

If it keeps returning, it’s often a chain problem (foot–ankle–hip–pelvis). At JANMI Postural Pain Clinic, Marylebone, I assess the whole load-sharing pattern and build a simple corrective plan.

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Educational content only — if your heel pain is severe, sudden, or persists, please seek medical advice or assessment from a qualified healthcare professional.

I saw a client recently, an osteopath, who nearly ruined his career by doing what social media told him to do: build mon...
26/02/2026

I saw a client recently, an osteopath, who nearly ruined his career by doing what social media told him to do: build monster forearms fast.

He trained arms and forearms almost every day for three months. Bigger muscles, veins everywhere, and then severe right wrist pain.

Finger extension hurt. Pressing into the palm hurt. Which is a disaster when your job is hands-on treatment.

My first advice was simple and unpopular: stop lifting immediately. Even cancel the gym membership for now, because he was stuck in a dangerous loop.

We did two JANMI soft tissue sessions to calm the overworked flexor and extensor chains and restore normal glide. Then I gave him a gentle outdoor functional routine: light push-up progressions, stretches, finger exercises, walking, and movement that respects recovery.

Two months later the pain was gone, confidence was back, and he was happy at work again. And he did not look back to the weight lifting obsession.

This is educational information, not medical advice. If pain is severe or worsening, get assessed.

Outer elbow pain (that classic “tennis elbow” feeling) often gets blamed on the elbow… even when the elbow is just the i...
26/02/2026

Outer elbow pain (that classic “tennis elbow” feeling) often gets blamed on the elbow… even when the elbow is just the innocent employee doing overtime.

This week in my Marylebone clinic I saw a client with strange lateral elbow pain: gripping hurt, lifting a bag felt wrong, and the outside of the elbow was properly annoyed.

But when I screened the full chain, the story changed.

Two big clues:

1. The scapulas were not aligned — one shoulder blade was sitting and moving differently.
2. The opposite-side knee was subtly collapsing/rotating, nudging the pelvis and ribcage into a small spiral.

Result? The shoulder blade wasn’t providing a stable base, so the forearm extensors (especially the wrist extensor tendons) had to “stabilise the whole arm” during everyday gripping. Over time, the lateral elbow paid the bill.

In a JANMI Full Chain Reset, we don’t chase the pain. We follow the chain:
• organise the scapula and ribcage
• calm the overloaded forearm tissues
• restore foot/knee/hip control on the opposite side
• add simple targeted exercises so the elbow can retire from its second job

If you’ve had outer elbow pain for weeks, it’s worth asking: what else is making your elbow work too hard?

This post is educational, not a diagnosis. If symptoms are severe, persistent, worsening, or include numbness/tingling/weakness, please seek appropriate medical assessment.

Rhomboid pain (that deep ache along the inner shoulder blade) is rarely “just the rhomboid”.A recent JANMI clinic case: ...
24/02/2026

Rhomboid pain (that deep ache along the inner shoulder blade) is rarely “just the rhomboid”.

A recent JANMI clinic case: a library worker with left shoulder forward, forward head posture, slight scapula winging — and the rhomboid major aching like it was the main villain.

But often the rhomboid is simply the muscle trying to stabilise a scapula that’s lost clean tracking on the ribcage.

Key links in the chain I saw:• Pec minor pulling the shoulder forward• Upper traps/suboccipitals overworking to hold the head• Mid-back extensors bracing for stability• And a big one people forget: opposite-side foot overpronation → pelvis/ribcage shift → scapula position changes → rhomboid overgrips

This is why JANMI Full Chain Reset is designed to assess the whole kinetic chain (feet to neck), not just chase the sore spot — using JANMI Soft Tissue Therapy, sports massage, trigger point therapy, and myofascial release.

Your knee doesn’t misbehave alone.The adductors (inner-thigh muscles) can quietly pull the femur inward, change hip rota...
23/02/2026

Your knee doesn’t misbehave alone.

The adductors (inner-thigh muscles) can quietly pull the femur inward, change hip rotation, and make the knee collapse into valgus — especially when the pelvis feels unstable and the glutes aren’t doing their share.

Key culprits:

Gracilis (crosses the knee → inner knee tension)
Adductor magnus (often replaces sleepy glutes)
Modern life: sitting, narrow movement patterns, stress bracing.

If your knees drift in during squats/steps/running, don’t only blame the kneecap. Check the inner chain.

If your soleus pain comes and goes, please stop blaming the calf first.Yesterday I saw a 25-year-old runner with recurri...
23/02/2026

If your soleus pain comes and goes, please stop blaming the calf first.

Yesterday I saw a 25-year-old runner with recurring right soleus pain that appears during runs or after. On assessment the calf wasn’t the main story. The main story was posture and load distribution: head forward, a scoliosis-type bias, right shoulder lower, right hip higher, tight QL, tight re**us femoris, tight tibialis anterior, tight medial hamstrings, and a left leg quietly overcompensating.

When the pelvis and trunk carry a bias, the ankle and calf complex often becomes the stabiliser. The foot stiffens, the tibialis anterior guards, and the soleus ends up doing constant braking and control until it hits a threshold. That is why symptoms can feel random, but rarely are.

Better question: what is your calf compensating for in the rest of your structure?

Disclaimer: Educational content only, not medical advice. If pain is persistent or accompanied by swelling, redness, heat, sudden sharp onset, or breathlessness, seek prompt clinical assessment.

The knee pain is rarely “just the knee.”This week’s JANMI Premium Reset case: outer-knee irritation + unstable kneecap +...
21/02/2026

The knee pain is rarely “just the knee.”
This week’s JANMI Premium Reset case: outer-knee irritation + unstable kneecap + mild valgus… with a twist — tight medial hamstrings, a right-sided spinal bias, forward head posture, and a protracted, winging scapula.

In the session, we treated the pattern: calm the system, release the bracing tissues, restore cleaner alignment, then re-integrate with simple re-patterning.

Sometimes the knee isn’t broken. It’s just overworked… because the rest of the body outsourced stability to it.

Train your serratus anterior — or your neck will keep doing your shoulder’s job.This quiet muscle hugs your shoulder bla...
04/02/2026

Train your serratus anterior — or your neck will keep doing your shoulder’s job.

This quiet muscle hugs your shoulder blade to your ribs. When it’s asleep: rounded shoulders, cranky traps, unstable overhead reach, and that annoying “tight but weak” feeling.

In JANMI Premium, I don’t only release tight tissues (the brakes). I reactivate sleeper muscles — especially serratus — so your posture can hold itself without forcing.

If your shoulders live in your ears, serratus is probably missing.

Most modern shoulder pain isn’t “weakness”. It’s small stabilisers doing too much work.Two usual suspects: infraspinatus...
04/02/2026

Most modern shoulder pain isn’t “weakness”. It’s small stabilisers doing too much work.

Two usual suspects: infraspinatus + teres minor (back-of-shoulder rotator cuff).
They don’t just “turn your arm out” — their real job is to keep the ball of the shoulder centred while you reach, lift, press, throw… and even while you sit at a desk pretending you’re relaxed.

Here’s the modern mismatch:

shoulders rolled forward all day (phone, laptop, steering wheel)
lots of pushing (bench, push-ups)
not enough smart pulling + external rotation
Result: these small muscles become your emergency brakes. Eventually they start complaining.

How it often feels:

pinchy or “blocked” shoulder when you lift the arm
pain that can show up in the front of the shoulder (yes, even when the problem is in the back)
deep ache around the back/outside shoulder
worse after desk work, gym, or sleeping on that side

The good news: when you restore scapula rhythm and calm the posterior cuff, shoulders often stop acting like dramatic teenagers.

If your pain is sharp, worsening, or you get numbness/weakness — get assessed. Otherwise: don’t ignore the quiet workers at the back of the joint.

Ever had your foot cramp like it’s trying to fold itself into origami at 2am?Here’s the boring truth (from a therapist w...
02/02/2026

Ever had your foot cramp like it’s trying to fold itself into origami at 2am?

Here’s the boring truth (from a therapist who actually touches these tissues daily): a cramp is usually not random — it’s your nervous system pressing “ON” in a muscle that’s been overloaded, held still too long, or forced into one angle.

Most common culprits:

Soleus + gastrocnemius (fatigued calf pump, less rhythm)

Deep toe flexors (big-toe and toe-gripping muscles working in silence)

Plantar fascia ↔ Achilles ↔ calf fascia (less glide = more irritability)

Modern life trains cramps perfectly: long sitting/standing/kneeling, stiff shoes, stressed nervous system, inconsistent movement… then we wonder why the foot protests.

Ever had this weird combo?Right shoulder won’t externally rotate (painful), right piriformis tight… but the left QL and ...
01/02/2026

Ever had this weird combo?
Right shoulder won’t externally rotate (painful), right piriformis tight… but the left QL and left rhomboid feel like they’re doing overtime.

That’s often not “four problems”. It’s one spiral — a cross-body tension strategy your nervous system uses to keep you upright in modern life (screens, sitting, asymmetry).

In today’s JANMI Journal I unpack how the Spiral Myofascial Line can lock the ribcage, scapula, pelvis and hip into a protective twist — and why restoring rotation changes everything.

If your body feels “twisted” rather than broken, you’ll recognise this.

Front-of-shoulder pain isn’t always a “shoulder problem”.In head-forward, shoulders-forward posture, the biceps tendon o...
31/01/2026

Front-of-shoulder pain isn’t always a “shoulder problem”.
In head-forward, shoulders-forward posture, the biceps tendon often becomes a stabiliser of last resort — and it gets irritated from simply holding the system together.
Sometimes the answer isn’t stretching harder… it’s restoring position, control, and calm.

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JURASIUS APPROACH TO NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION (JANMI)

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I am a founder and leading practitioner of JANMI massage & exercise system- a synergy of advanced soft tissue therapy and home exercises used to manage pain relief, injury prevention & recovery and functional rehabilitation after neurological injuries & strokes, and come from a family of doctors in Lithuania. I originally intended on joining the priesthood and completed a degree in theology. After my studies I decided instead to help others achieve optimal health through complementary therapies. I trained as a Thai massage therapist and reiki master before qualifying in sports and remedial massage, personal training, life coaching and rehabilitation for neurological injuries and strokes.