Research into the fascia is so new that the doctors don't even know all about it yet!

What is the fascia and how is it related to chronic pain??

All that white stuff in the picture is the fascia.   When it’s healthy, it’s moist, supple, flexible, and has fluid flowing through.

The fascia is part of our connective tissue system. In this picture the fascia is all the white areas. It is a thin casing that literally surrounds every muscle, muscle fiber, nerve cell, tendon, ligament, bone, and organ. It connects everything inside our bodies together from left to right, top to bottom, and inside out.

It has multiple layers with a fluid called hyaluronan that flows through it. This fluid allows it to move, contract, expand, and flows with you as you move. The fascia can become damaged making it sticky and dehydrated causing it to contract and compress all the tissues that it surrounds leading to pain. So, think about that for a moment. Nerve cells pass through the fascia. All that soft tissue is now being compressed by dehydrated tissue squeezing your nerves, muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments and organs.
I’m going to take a moment and give you an analogy. Take a dried up, crusty, sponge that is sitting on your kitchen sink. If you have a spill on your counter, the dried-up sponge won’t absorb the mess. So what do you do? You hold the sponge under the water and squeeze it until it becomes moist and supple again. Then the sponge will work. Your fascia works the same way. It has to be squeezed, compressed, and stretched the right way to get the fluid flowing into the dehydrated area again. Unfortunately, just drinking more water will not fix the fascia. I’ll explain why.

The body has an amazing defense mechanism. When you become dehydrated, that means water is coming out of the cell. Your body will try to preserve what water you have left and create a barrier around that cell (like an egg shell). But when that happens, you can not reabsorb water either. So when you drink your water, you just pee it out.

Working the fascia correctly will break that barrier apart allowing you now to reabsorb water correctly.

Damaged or dehydrated fascia will never show up on any imaging test that a doctor can order because it is a soft tissue. This may be the missing link for people who suffer from chronic pain with no real answers or solutions.

Research on the fascia has only begun in the last 20 years or so. It is like a whole new organ system that is just now being discovered!

We are going to be learning about a technique called Melt Method that can be used to rehydrate the fascia and help alleviate chronic pain.

Watch my interview with Start Living Again! partner, Wendy Patrucco, to learn more.

Wendy is an advanced melt method instructor!  Schedule an appointment with her today to get you on a path of healing and lowering your pain score.  Her contact info is located on my partnership page.

Nicole