Science of Fascia Recent Findings According to the National Institute of Health study by Myroslava Kumka, MD PhD. Fascia is an uninterrupted viscoelastic tissue (similar to the consistency of honey, resists shear and strain, when stress is removed from the honey it...
Fascia Training Every week I work out at the gym, I have to look away when I see people even trainers lifting weights on a system/body/structure that is not balanced. Loading a body when there are lines of tension and compensations in every direction leads to...
Is it Possible that Plantar Fasciitis linked to Concussion? A lady ( who I will call Alicia) came to my office in desperation; she found me after she did a google search on the fascia. Months after the birth of her first child, she was standing at the kitchen sink,...
Part 2 How Movement/Posture affects Hormones Why Posture Matters! Did your mother ever tell you to sit up and eat your food? Intuitively mothers knew this was best for digestion and absorption of nutrients. A study by Andrew M. Howerda et...
Movement changes your biochemistry to alter your physiology. Part 1 Bones, muscle, and fascia adapt to stress, they either grow in a healthy way where they get stronger or an unhealthy way where they can become weakened or damaged. When the bone becomes weaker it...
I treated a 19-year-old male, who presented with general aches and pains over his body, tingling in fingers, pain in forearms, lower back and hips. Several health care practitioners, with minimal resolution, treated these symptoms. From our discussion, I asked if they...
Concussions have been in the news a lot this summer, with the latest article from the Wall Street Journal stating at out of 111 deceased NFL Football Players brain 110 had CTE. What the news did not report is that out of the 110, only 20 percent showed symptoms of...
Correlation between Fascia and Concussion. I always said in jest that Rodeo/Bull riders don’t need me they need JD. (Jack Daniels) The reasoning behind that statement is Rodeo Riders are tough and crazy. They could cut off a limb; bandage it up and get back...
I don’t know if you are like me. When I discover something, I want to go all in and beyond to see if it works. But what if, like the fascia therapy technique I teach, there is a hierarchy to healing, not just the fascia but also the gut? Upon Francine Savard’s...
“Death by Indigestion” “Death sits in the bowels and bad digestion is the root of all Evils.” – Hippocrates Circa Do you suffer from lack of focus? You don’t have the energy you used to? Always stiff in the morning or after sitting for long periods of time?...
Did you know that stress fractures account for 10% of all injuries to athletes? Runners coming in with stress fractures often cannot understand how it happens. The cause of stress fractures in the lower limbs creates muscle fatigue, which reduces shock absorption and...
