21/11/2023
Keeping Your Fascia Healthy so Your Body Moves Pain-Free
FASCIA: The thin sheath or casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place. Fascia is an integral system-wide network that provides form and function to every part of your body.
Fascia also balances your body structures and gives your body strength. When Fascia is healthy, it’s flexible and stretches with you. When our Fascia tightens up however, it can restrict movement and cause painful health conditions.
Being such an integral part of our structure keeping your Fascia healthy is vital to achieving optimal movement and health throughout our bodies to assist in easier daily function.
These include exercising regularly, stretching every day, staying hydrated, and more. Lets look a quick list of daily musts to keep the Fascia healthy and supportive to our movement.....
💪 DAILY STRETCHING: Stretching that elongates your muscles can help you release tension in your muscles, which is one element of fascia. Taking periodic breaks from your work to perform leg, arm and back stretches will improve the Fascia's state as well as your mobility almost immediately. Dr Sean can work with you on specific stretches that can help you maintain Fascia health.
💪MOBILITY PROGRAM: A basic 10-20 minute Yoga or Pilates workout in the mornings will definelty get you on the track to achieving optimum Fascia health as well as prepare you for your day. The basics like cat cow, warrior, lunge / squat rotations will all feel great to create a fantastic stretch and elongate the Fascia giving it more mobility to protect our inner structure better!
💪ROLL IT OUT: Even the good old stretch out daily on our personalised foam roller will get you sorted! Foam rolling is a great way to check in with your body to pinpoint where exactly your fascia is tight and holding tension. We suggest giving yourself an overall rollout, and let your muscles tell you where they're tight and need some attention. Sean can then work on this during treatment & further provide you with some targeted rolling techniques to restore the Fascia further.
💪SAUNA TIME POST EXERCISE: Visiting the sauna has always been widely accessible. However, thanks to evolving research that shines new light on the health benefits, saunas are more popular and widely used than ever before.
In a study published in the Springer Plus journal (link below), research was determined that both traditional steam saunas and infrared saunas decreased delayed onset muscle soreness, improving exercise recovery simultaneously.
💪YES, YOU GUESSED IT - IT'S CARDIO TIME! Whether you’re choosing to walk briskly, take up swimming, running, or just doing yardwork, cardiovascular activity that gets the blood pumping can help to promote more flexibility within the body, promoting a healthier Fascia as a result. And of course good ol' fashioned cardio includes but is not limited to the lowering of blood pressure, building immunity, improving mood and sleep... so it's a good all rounder that we all should make time for multiples times weekly!
💪HYDRATE: Keeping the fascia hydrated, promotes more elasticity ad pliability, which in return will improve general mobility. This can reduce the risk of injury. If dehydration is present within the body, amongst other issues occurring - the Fascia is at risk of becoming stiff and less elastic, which can lead to pain and decreased mobility.
Book an appointment with Newtowns highest rated in Chiropractic to help you achieve optimum Fascial health today.
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