If you’ve received a myofascial release treatment using the John Barnes Approach, you’ll have noticed that your therapist holds each release for quite a long time. Most releases are held for a minimum of five minutes. Ideally, a release could be held for six to eight minutes or even longer, depending on what your therapist is feeling beneath their hands. This is one of the things that sets this approach apart from other modalities. Other forms of myofascial release rely on fo