Restrictions in Fascia is the primary cause of pain!
Fascia has become fashionably in style. Historically really before 2009, it has been overlooked and dismissed by the established medical community. Fascia no longer ignored. It is the integral part of the body that is everywhere, around cells, around bones, around organs, around muscle, nerves, and lymph.
Congress on Fascia
The first International Fascia Research Congress took place at Harvard in 2007; fascia has become a popular term, often overused by many professionals strength coaches, therapists, doctors, on social media and in the news, used by those that may not understand fascia or are new at the fascia table.
When I attended the Fascia Research Congress in Amsterdam 2009, I met and interacted with the leading researchers from around the globe. We shared our experiences and results in Ph.D. discussions at lunch or dinner. I kept doing clinical studies, asked to teach and share my findings, it is not until now that I am ready to share over 15 years of clinical observation on the function of fascia and the interaction with muscles, nervous system and lymph. SFT is the therapy I created that includes all of the systems of the body to produce lasting results.
Experience at the conference 2009
Leading fascia experts included Serge Gracovetsky Ph.D., Anotonio Stecco MD, Leon Chaitow ND, DO, Jerrilynn Camron LMT,DC, PhD, Thomas Findlay MD, PhD, Thomas Hausner MD, Lisa Hodge PhD, Eric Jacobson PhD, Rober Schleip PhD, M.A. Carla Stecco MD, who were gathered together to promote Fascia’s standing in science and medicine. Carla Stecco has since created an in-depth book of fascia and function.
Fascia, interacts with all other structures, such as lymph, nervous system and muscles will be one of the most important bodily structures studied within the next five years. Without Fascia the body would not have shape, form or structure. Restricted or sticky Fascia can cause pain that may not follow traditionally accepted ideas of pain or pain patterns.
I have always had a natural affinity working with Fascia, 20 years clinical experience. My natural gift of listening to the body and palpating restrictions in the fascia that when released often create immediate and permanent change in the body.
Understanding and awareness for this primarily important tissue need to be shared with everybody. Doctors, health practitioners, and frontline health professionals need to understand as does every person with a body. The flexibility of fascia is crucial to health, motion, and wellbeing of every cell and organ.
Why has Fascia been overlooked?
Historically it was always cut away or removed from the cadaver with the skin and is portrayed this way in anatomy books. Superficial Fascia before 2007 was not illustrated in any anatomy textbooks. These books displayed only the powerful muscle, proud nerves and the sturdy bone.
The quiet Fascia, with such an important role in the function of every movement, of every bone and muscle, was always silently cut out and thrown away. In the past my therapy has met with so much resistance because fascia did not exist in most medical expert’s vocabulary, only plantar fasciitis was accepted.
How can I be a specialist in something no one had heard about? The MDs and the Ph.D.’s I have met are brilliant people but were dumbfounded and condescending when I talked about the Fascia. People sought out my treatments only after they had unsuccessfully tried every other traditional path.
Pioneer
Like Fascia, I sat quietly and waited until the muscle, tendon and the bone approach to manual therapy had failed to achieve lasting results. Of course, this dismissal was frustrating and still is, but it did not weaken my passion or determination and my true belief and faith in the work. I stayed the course for 15 years, and now Fascia is starting to have its day in the Sun… and the Sun is shining brightly.
Stretching Fascia first allows for the lymph to move, the nerves to calm down and the muscle to relax and contract. Therapies that primarily address Fascia and not just the symptom or painful area helps resolve pain.
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