05/12/2025
📫 Fascia Friday!
Your weekly reminder that your fascia — the body’s connective tissue network — plays a HUGE role in how you move and how you feel.
🔹 5 Important Facts About Fascia & Its Role in Mobility + Pain
Fascia connects everything.
It surrounds muscles, bones, nerves, and organs, creating one continuous system that affects movement head-to-toe.
It’s loaded with nerve endings.
Tight or dehydrated fascia can trigger pain, sensitivity, or stiffness because fascia is highly sensory.
Healthy fascia = better mobility.
When fascia glides smoothly, movement feels effortless. When it becomes restricted, mobility drops fast.
Fascia adapts to stress.
Repetitive positions (like sitting) or lack of movement cause fascia to thicken, stiffen, and “stick” to surrounding tissues.
It responds to slow, sustained pressure.
Unlike muscles, fascia doesn’t release with quick stretching — it needs time, heat, and gentle loading to change.
🔹 3 Things to Get Fascia Moving
Slow, dynamic stretching (think cat-cow, spinal waves, hip circles).
Walking + gentle bouncing to stimulate hydration and glide.
Myofascial release tools like a foam roller, massage ball, or gentle manual pressure.
🔹 3 Things Fascia Needs for Long-Term Health
Hydration — water keeps the fascial layers slippery and elastic.
Varied movement — mix up how you sit, stand, twist, reach, and walk.
Stress management — breathwork and relaxation decrease tension in the fascial network.
And if you still feel "stuck"
Come see me ✌️
