Fascia restrictions symptoms and treatment.

What you need to know about the Fascia.

A fascia is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs. Fascia is classified by layer, as superficial fascia, deep fascia, and visceral or parietal fascia, or by its function and anatomical location.

Like ligaments, aponeuroses, and tendons, fascia is made up of fibrous connective tissue containing closely packed bundles of collagen fibers oriented in a wavy pattern parallel to the direction of pull. Fascia is consequently flexible and is able to resist great unidirectional tension forces until the wavy pattern of fibers has been straightened out by the pulling force. These collagen fibers are produced by fibroblasts located within the fascia.

Fasciae are similar to ligaments and tendons as they have collagen as their major component. They differ in their location and function: ligaments join one bone to another bone, tendons join muscle to bone, and fasciae surround muscles or other structures.

Therefore fascial adhesions are the adhesions of one fascial layer to another, they may create pain, discomfort, they may even lead to loss of fluid in between the fascial layers. Fascial restriction may be caused by trauma, inflammation, compensatory mechanism, postural dis balance and postural pain. All of these symptoms may occur at a distance from the restriction and may result in impaired cellular metabolism, nutrition and even lymphatic flow.

But did you know that massage therapist are very good and very successful in finding and treating those adhesion and address any fascial restriction by specific facial tech, soft tissue manipulation and other different modalities that massage therapist learning in there practice like Hydrotherapy, Cupping treatment, traditional Swedish techniques and all other direct fascial manipulations. Call 289 233 3667 to make an apportionment at our Massage Therapy clinic in Oakville.