Understand Your Fascia

The health of your fascia is a key player in living a healthy lifestyle. It is often marketed for vanity purposes, yet I love it for its ability to offer pain relief, improve alignment & access functional mobility.

What is fascia?  It is a blend of collagen & elastin that links everything inside of you together, like a framework or casing that is interwoven throughout every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle.

We have been taught to think of our body as a house, where or head sits on the neck, our head & neck on the shoulders and so on, like a stack of bricks all the way down. In fact, our bones float inside the soft tissues of our body. Our muscles and fascia help align and move the bones within our body.

If the fascia that encases the muscles and other tissues is healthy, meaning it is smooth, slippery, flexible and appears dewy and wet, like a fresh spiderweb, then our body is able to move more fluidly and access greater mobility. When our fascia is stressed by repetitive type movements, injury, surgery or prolonged immobility it becomes dry & gummy like a cobweb. It then begins to adhere to other connective tissue, and causes immobility, stiffness, poor alignment and even pain.

Integrating a self-treatment technique of fasciablasting, can help to increase blood flow to a specific area. This intern helps to hydrate the fascia, improve mobility, alignment, and healing while reducing pain.

ProBlaster Set

My favorite and most versatile tool is the ProBlaster. It is designed with comfort and function in mind. It is small enough to fit in your hand and infused with medical grade silicone to offer comfort & control. A great introductory tool for beginners.

Curious to learn more, book an appointment to learn if fasciablasting is ideal for you and how to get started.