#fascia massage

[bodyalive]

The skin is an organ that can influence body homeostasis. It is good practice, when evaluating the clinical picture of a patient, to always ascertain the presence of scars. Looking at the patient as a system and not just as a symptom or a symptomatological segment will help the clinician, and all those professionals who use manual techniques, to find a more effective treatment. A scar can produce different symptoms, which can affect the neurological sphere, the fascial, and the visceral area. The skin surface is a means to communicate with the nervous system, to understand it, and to give therapeutic information. We can conclude by affirming that the skin and the fascias represent the skeletal system of the nervous system.

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[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

3/21/23 Food Log & Check in

No workout today. Back to podiatrist. Freezing is doing nothing to this plantar wart, so he used acid on it today. Holy mother of hades! It didn't hurt at the time, but it's been burning for several hours now. Can't walk on it. I foresee no great workout tomorrow, probably seated plyojam again. I fucking hope this gets it and I don't have to keep doing this.

I also got a "90 Minute Muscular-Structural Rehabilitation massage for Acute/Chronic Conditions" today. It was the strangest massage I've ever gotten, but I can feel a difference in the pain in my glute, which he said is coming from my psoas. Everything he does is very slow, targeting the fascia and getting it to release.

What is fascia? Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place.

My right hip is tilted forward, causing the pain, so he worked on releasing it so it could go back into place. It seems somewhat like chiropractic, but SLOWLY and with more targeted precision. I'll probably need a few sessions to get it fixed, if it can be, but it does feel better.

Food, at least, has been on target the last few days. Still doing intermittent fasting, and doing fine with that, mostly 16:8 .

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Fascia release therapy: Does it alleviate back pain?

Understanding Fascia Release

Fascia release therapy targets the connective tissue enveloping muscles, aiming to improve flexibility and alleviate tension. But does it hold the key to relieving back pain?

Exploring Back Pain Relief:

Research suggests that myofascial release therapy may contribute to back pain relief by addressing tightness and promoting better range of motion. By targeting fascial restrictions, this therapy aims to enhance overall musculoskeletal function.

Personalized Approach:

One notable aspect of fascia release therapy is its personalized approach. Therapists tailor sessions to individual needs, identifying specific areas of tension and employing techniques to release fascial restrictions. This tailored approach may enhance its effectiveness in addressing diverse back pain issues.

Considering the Evidence:

While anecdotal evidence supports the positive impact of fascia release therapy on back pain, further scientific studies are needed to establish its efficacy conclusively. As with any alternative therapy, individual responses may vary.

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By Danielle Friedman

Published Sept. 11, 2023Updated Sept. 19, 2023

In recent years, the concept of caring for one’s fascia — the tough, flexible tissue that surrounds and connects muscles, bones and organs like cling wrap — has permeated fitness and wellness culture. Pilates instructors and massage therapists offer to make fascia more supple, and products like foam rollers, massage guns and “fascia blasters” claim to help you improve your fascia health at home.

“Fascia as a buzzword has really exponentially taken off,” said Christopher DaPrato, a physical therapist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the connection between fascia and athletic performance.

Until the early 2000s, doctors believed fascia was just packaging for more important body parts. Since then, researchers have discovered that the connective tissue plays a vital role in how we function and is key to flexibility and range of motion.

Emerging research suggests that caring for your fascia may help treat chronic pain and improve exercise performance and overall well-being.

“We’re still at the very, very beginning” of understanding fascia, said Helene Langevin, the director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes of Health. “This is a part of the body which we have neglected for so long.”

What is fascia?

Your body has two forms of fascia: dense and loose. Each type is key to facilitating movement. Dense fascia, made of sturdy collagen fibers, helps give your body its shape. It holds muscles, organs, blood vessels and nerve fibers in place. It helps your muscles contract and stretch, and stabilizes your joints. The more slippery loose fascia allows your muscles, joints and organs to slide and glide against one another like a well-oiled machine.

How does fascia get damaged?

In 2007, an anatomy professor named Carla Stecco at the University of Padova in Italy found that fascia is alive with nerve endings. This means it can be a source of pain. The longer it is damaged or inflamed, the more sensitive it becomes.

When you’re sedentary for a long time, fascia can shorten, become overly rigid and congeal into place, forming adhesions that limit mobility, said David Krause, a physical therapist at the Mayo Clinic. Over time, inactivity can also lead fascia to reshape itself. If you spend most days hunched over a computer, the fascia surrounding your neck and shoulder muscles may change so that your posture becomes curved.

Fascia can also become damaged from repetitive movements, chronic stress, injury or surgery — becoming inflamed, overly rigid or stuck together. And it stiffens with age.

Finally, because it consists of a matrix of fibers, fascia that is too short, stiff or sticky in one part of the body can lead to pain and dysfunction elsewhere, by pinching or pulling in the wrong direction, Dr. Stecco said. The body can also compensate by changing the way it moves, causing other issues.

It can be tricky to determine whether pain is coming from your fascia or your muscles and joints. Generally, muscle and joint problems tend to feel worse the more you move, while fascia pain lessens with movement.

How can you care for your fascia?

The most effective way to keep your fascia sturdy and elastic is to stay active. Experts also recommend a few things in particular.

Resistance training keeps fascia strong, Dr. Langevin said. “A weak muscle is not going to do a great job at moving and mobilizing the fascia,” she said, nor will stiff and congealed fascia help the muscle do its job. “They need each other,” she said. “Once one starts improving, it helps the other.”

Exercises that involve a range of movements — like dancing, jumping jacks, tennis and swimming — also help keep the fascia lubricated, Dr. DaPrato said. Movements that involve bouncing are particularly effective at keeping fascia healthy.

“Skipping, for example, is such a wonderful movement,” said Robert Schleip, director of the Fascia Research Group at Ulm University in Germany.

For those who haven’t been active recently, it’s important to “be gentle with our fascia and to go slowly and try to reestablish the movement that has been lost,” Dr. Langevin said. Dynamic stretching, which contracts the muscle while elongating it, will benefit healthy and damaged fascia alike. Try trunk twists, squats or forward lunges. Consider seeing a physical therapist who can offer hands-on treatment and guide you toward the best program.

Along with moving, experts recommend sipping water throughout the day, which can help fascia glide with ease.

Despite the popularity of tools and treatments that involve applying pressure to fascia, research hasn’t yet proved their long-term effectiveness. Foam rollers and percussion guns can temporarily alleviate fascial soreness and improve flexibility by “changing some of the fluid dynamics in that local area,” Dr. DaPrato said. If you choose to use a self-massaging device, don’t overdo it: No evidence supports the recent trend of “fascia blasting,” or aggressively manipulating fascia through the skin, which can lead to bruising.

The same may be true for treatments like myofascial massage and cupping. If these treatments make you feel and move better, that’s great, experts said — but simply staying active is the best medicine.

Danielle Friedman is a journalist in New York and the author of “Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World.” More about Danielle Friedman

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i cannot stress enough the importance of learning how to do self massage. a lot of areas (face, neck, shoulders, calves, feet) can easily be done with your hands, but you can also get aids for areas like your back and hamstrings (foam rollers and balls, for example) for very cheap

learning how to release the fascia (surface muscles) on your scalp will help with tension headaches. releasing your shoulder muscles and upper back will help with posture. releasing your lower back knots and feet will reduce standing pain.

learn to take care of your muscles and be free

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[thebibliosphere]

So I’m newly diagnosed with EDS and currently looking for a physical therapist, do you have any tips for finding one who knows how to work with hypermobility? And any red flags to look out for?

If you're able to, check their website/clinical listing to see if they mention hypermobility anywhere.

This one, unfortunately, requires you to have a few sessions with them first, but if they don't start out slow, and I mean S L O W and try to tell you a version of "no pain, no gain," jump ship and find someone else.

Not everyone will need to move at my pace, but to give you an example of what I started out doing in PT? We were moving muscles an inch at a time to retrain them. Anything more than that was causing muscle tearing and scarring.

Also, look to see if they offer massage as part of what they're doing. Something I learned from my own PTs has been that having a warm-up massage before doing the actual work cuts down on injury. Not a heavy deep massage, just something to get the muscles warmed up and ready to move. The best I have found have been folks who work with myofascial release. There are some wild claims about myofascial release. I disregard them and focus on the benefit of having my fascia gently nudged into giving up the death grip they have on my joints before I attempt to do joint mobility exercises. It's significantly helped cut down on the scar tissue holding me together.

Good luck. I wish you well on your healthy journey.

[hungerpunch]

okay actually. i am maybe going to cry lol. here is a non-exhaustive list of the medical professionals i have seen since i was in seventh grade:

too many internists (as primary care/general practice) to actually count. well over a dozen.

two neurologists

one spine specialist

seven physical therapists

two chiropractors

four massage therapists

three dentists

one oral surgeon

i have had many MRIs and x-rays. i have had a lot of blood taken. i have taken rounds of steroids and muscle relaxers for pain/symptom management. there have been times i could not turn my head to one side for months at a time. i have scoliosis, which wasn't figured out until the fifth or so physical therapist, even though previous chiropractors had taken x-rays of my spine.

here is a non-exhaustive list of reasons why i sought such intensive care:

debilitating migraines

severe back pain

severe neck pain

bad pain flares in my back teeth during times of stress

ear aches

here is a non-exhaustive list of things i have been told about myself by these professionals:

the enamel on my teeth was worn off and had to be artificially reapplied "because" i "brushed my teeth too aggressively."

that the reason my ears hurt was "because" i "cleaned them too aggressively" and there was no protective ear wax left.

that the lowest three discs in my spine were degenerating.

that i was grinding my teeth in my sleep.

that i was hyper-tensing in my sleep and that i should "take xanax daily & nightly to make it stop."

that i had scoliosis. (this one is 100% confirmed)

that i needed therapy to become less stressed so my muscles would relax.

that i needed massage therapy and other various treatments to address how tight all my fascia was in certain parts of my body.

that i should try mouth guards because the teeth grinding had started to do real damage.

that i should enter a sleep study for how intense and chronic my insomnia was.

that the pain in my hands/tingling in my fingers was because my wrists were too weak.

that there was "something evil stored" in my neck

and then. an anon yesterday asked if i had tmj. and i said probably not. and then @chronodyne slid me a message that said "re: tmj, mine is myofascial and i also don’t have the clicking/trouble opening my mouth."

so i did some reading.

starting with myofascial tmj got me here (cedars-sinai.org)

i paused to look up bruxism, which turns out to be the medical term for grinding/clenching your fucking teeth:

highlights are things i have experienced and sought or had medical attention for (dull headaches are not highlighted because i have only ever sought medical attention for migraines, though i certainly have dull headaches all the time).

okay. so i know i clench my jaw/grind my teeth in the daytime. and a dentist has told me before that it's evident i do it in my sleep, too. just the other day i woke up with a ravaged inside right cheek from chewing it in my sleep. so i can safely self-diagnose bruxism.

back to tmd.

highlights are symptoms i have experienced. i did not highlight teeth sensitivity because i would classify it as pain instead. but you don't understand the howl i let out internally when i read the ringing in the ears and numbness/tingling feeling in your fingers bullet points. i have been operating under the assumption that i have tinnitus and probably a very scary autoimmune disorder that i just am better off ignoring (this is not medical advice, it's avoidance). i'm not saying i don't have those things, but i also never knew there were other possibilities.

over the course of my life i have had many injuries to my neck and actually i have also had a pretty severe concussion before, which i would classify as a head injury. i have many of the symptoms listed for tmd. i have even undergone, incongruously, many of the treatments for it. so many doctors have noted and attempted to address issues with my fascia, with my muscles, with my tension.

it raising its ugly head when i'm stressed makes sense i literally said in my post yesterday DOES THIS HAPPEN TO ANYONE WHEN THEIR BLOOD PRESSURE RAISES LOL SOB

i cannot conclusively diagnose myself with tmd or, for that matter, with mps (myofasical pain syndrome, which i had also never heard of!). but i am so, so frustrated because i have never even heard these words. i have never been screened for these things. no medical professional has ever discussed these possibilities with me, even when they're treating me for several of the symptoms!

i'm crying for all the tests i've undergone that led to nothing. always, infuriatingly, labeled a medical mystery. for the rounds of steroids and muscle relaxers i've been prescribed. for the painful manual manipulations i've been subjected to. for every single person who ever touched my body commenting on how tight/tense my neck is. for the addiction that stemmed from that first xanax prescription when i was 15 that caused so much fucking grief in my life. for the chronic pain that has swallowed whole decades of my life and sapped my energy since i was a child.

none of these symptoms were ever NOT disclosed to a medical professional. at each one, i did the immense labor of dragging out my entire, perplexing medical history, including injuries and past issues and treatments. but nobody ever thought to consider this? nobody, with all those degrees, with those long careers, with all those patients, ever thought to consider this? while i was in all those paper gowns, on all those cold tables, getting poked and prodded, crying, paying for tests i could not afford, so sleep deprived i thought i'd die at 25, nobody considered this?

anyway @chronodyne suggested seeing an oral surgeon to discuss this so. i guess that's what i'm looking up next.

[ballet-symphonie]

Hi, I’m not sure if you offer advice, but if you do, do you have any tips on managing soreness? I’ve tried stretching, are there any products or exercises that can help with this?

Thank you so much.

Yes I do!!

First of all, make sure you're eating enough protein and potassium before and after classes.

If you don't own a foam roller and some sort of massage ball (tennis and lacrosse balls work great) invest in these. Muscle Fascia release is key for reducing soreness and increasing mobility. Rolling out your muscles before and after exercise works wonders!

Stretching is also important, but how you stretch is crucial. Don't repeat the same things over and over all the time and be sure to stretch in 'both directions', eg, follow up a deep backend with child pose and some forward folds.

Decreasing inflammation is also important, icing your feet for 10-20 minutes at a time, propping your legs up at a 90-degree angle for a while, and good, old fashioned, ibuprofen on super heavy days are my other hacks as a professional