What exactly is Fascia? A short video to help visualise how your Fascia interweaves through out the body.

This blog delves into how the stiffness of your skin and fascia can influence your pain and your ability to move as a whole.

Box A is a normal scan of someone whose neck is painfree and moving well. The fascia layers are even, and the lubricant layer is easily visible. 

Box B shows that there is thickening of the lubricant layer (this is known as densification) as well as the thickening and subsequent stiffness of the layers of fascia.  

Box C is when this becomes thickened further resulting in fibrosis or stiffness of the area, a permanent thickening and lack of slide and glide of the fascial layers. 

Here is an infographic of How to Look After Your Scar. I have been trained in the Restore Scar Therapy method of working with scars.

I am often asked why I look further afield in the body for restrictions to movement.

A recently published study by Padova University found that by stretching the hamstrings one could increase neck flexion (chin to chest) range by about 5 degrees.

This evidence supports that having tight leg muscles can influence the movement of the upper body.

By looking at all parts of the body, we can find influences that may restrict your movements from the most distant of places!

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