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Fascinating Fascia
Do you know what fascia is?
Most people have never heard of it, yet it's literally everywhere
throughout your body. And the role it plays is an important one.
What is Fascia? The World Book Dictionary defines fascia as "a
usually thin band of fibrous connective tissue covering, supporting, or
binding together a muscle, part, or organ; tissue of this kind."
The word comes from the Latin fascia, meaning a band or girdle.
This connective tissue from a continuous net throughout the body, from
head to toe and from skin to the deepest levels. " If all the
other tissues were extracted, the connective framework alone would
preserve the three-dimensional human form in all its details, "
writes
author and body worker Deane Juhan in his book Job's Body.
All of the body's components that we are more familiar with-the
blood vessels, nerves, muscles, etc.-make their way through this maze of
fascia. And found in all the tiny spaces throughout the connective
tissue is a fluid called ground substance, a viscous liquid
resembling raw egg whites.
Ground substance is the medium in which all those cellular body
functions-nutrients and hormones being delivered to cells, wastes being
carried away, etc.- take place.
So, what does all this have to do with BioSync and your overall health?
Because fascia is a continuous web spreading throughout your body, it can
play a major role in how your body functions. Since it's a gel, ground
substance can change in consistency. When a body is active (through work,
exercise, stretching, ect.), it generates heat
that creates a more ideal condition for the ground substance-one in
which it becomes thinner or more liquid. This allows for better
metabolic exchange to take place throughout your body, helping your body
to better maintain proper health.
If a body is less active, the connective tissues are not as warmed or
energized, allowing the ground substance to thicken; the tissues become
sluggish and loses its ability to stretch, soften, and flex.
One of the major health benefits of BioSync is the positive structural
posture affects it has on this on the human body.
By means of
penetrating, lengthening, and unwinding (spiraling), the fascia... it
generates permanent changes to the tissue structure and brings it back
to the original blue print it was designed to do. Another added benefit
is when the tissue is unwound it decompress the spine and bone joints
that are surrounded by this tissue. This in return adds
energy and promotes a more fluid ground substance... in which nutrients
and cellular wastes can conduct their exchanges more efficiently.
The substance that gives connective tissue its strength is the
protein collagen derived from the Greek word meaning "glue".
The collagen molecule is the longest molecule that has ever been
isolated. These collagen fibers derive their strength (up to 2000 psi)
from their ability to form strong chemical bonds with each other. Over
the years, these fibers tend to pack more tightly and strengthen their
bonds, especially in places with more compression and strain. "These
areas of chronic stress in the connective tissue thicken and rigidify,
bunch up, lose their limitations on the movement of the body as a
whole... This unwanted bonding is one of the major factors in the
stiffness associated with old age, repeated strain, or poorly healed
injuries." |
Because fascia is continuous throughout your
body, when one area is affected (becomes tight, for example), its
effects can manifest in other areas as well. Imagine pulling on a corner
of your shirt and the numerous distortions this causes across the length
of the fabric. Fascia can react in a similar fashion. Areas of
restricted fascia can lead to various complaints, such as postural
problems and restricted movement.
So, in addition to BioSync benefiting your tight or sore muscles while
opening and relaxes you, it also playing other vital health roles.
BioSync
releases recorded trauma in the tissues. As the work penetrates, lengthens,
and unwinds deep into the connective tissue...it creates a cleansing,
flushing effect, similar to that of rinsing out a sponge...Large amounts
of toxins and wastes...can be thus moved out of the intercellular fluids
and into the bloodstream, from which they can then be eliminated"1(paraphased)
Deane Juhan, Job's Body, 1987 |
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