12/02/2025
Talk About it Tuesday!
Let's talk a little more about fascia
Fascia is like the white pithy parts of an orange that hold it together. The tough outer peel is like the skin, the fleshy fruit segments are like your muscles, and the thin membranes separating and surrounding each segment are fascia.
This connective tissue runs throughout your body, wrapping and connecting your organs, muscles, bones, and nerves, similar to how the pith and membranes are woven through the entire orange, allowing everything to work together as a whole.
The fascia layers in the orange analogy
Outer peel: This is like your skin.
White, stringy, pithy layer: This is your superficial fascia, a layer of connective tissue just beneath the skin.
Membranes between segments: This is your deep fascia, the thin, white, web-like layers that surround and separate each muscle and organ.
Individual juice droplets: This is like the fascia that encases individual cells.
What the analogy teaches us about fascia
It holds everything together:
Without the pith and membranes, the orange would be just an "orange smoothie". Fascia is what provides your body with structure and keeps your organs and muscles from becoming a jumbled mess.
It connects everything: The pith and membranes create a continuous network that connects the entire orange. Similarly, your fascia connects everything from head to toe, creating a web of support that allows for movement and function throughout the whole body.
It can become tight: If the pith on one side of the orange becomes tight, it can cause the whole fruit to change shape. Likewise, if fascia becomes tight, it can pull on other connected tissues, affecting posture and movement in other parts of the body.
If you’ve heard me talk about fascia being like an orange — with layers, membranes, and tiny fibers that hold everything together — then dry needling makes even more sense. 🍊
Dry needling uses a very thin, sterile needle to reach the deeper layers of tight muscle and fascia that hands sometimes can’t access.
There’s no medication in the needle — it simply creates a small, controlled stimulus that helps release tension from the inside out.
When the needle reaches a restricted area, it can help:
✨ break up fascial adhesions
✨ soften tight or “stuck” layers
✨ relax trigger points
✨ boost blood flow + hydration in the tissue
✨ calm the nervous system’s tension response
This is why dry needling can feel like a “reset” for stubborn areas that never quite let go.
If your fascia is the orange… dry needling helps those tighter fibers glide, move, and breathe again. 🪡🍊✨
Have you ever received this type of treatment?
