Are You Driving Your Body With The Brakes On?
Posted on January 22, 2008
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When an injury or trauma occurs in one area of the body, that tension is transmitted through the fascia to every other tissue. Just like with a web, the smallest tug is felt by the entire system. That’s why when too many tensions accumulate in the body, your day-to-day functioning can be compromised by pain, fatigue and decreased movement.
Trying to move with tension in the fascia is like trying to drive a car with the parking brake on. You expend a lot more effort and end up feeling fatigued and burned out. This increased wear and tear on the system can further result in inflammation and irritation of the muscles and joints, decreased range of movement, and ultimately chronic pain.
Unfortunately, all too often that pain is addressed simply with medication that is designed to mask the symptoms instead of relieving the underlying problem. However, when gentle, soft-tissue techniques are used by a practitioner who is skilled at listening to the voice of the body, the source of the friction can be identified and relieved.
This creates a positive chain reaction throughout the body, allowing multiple tissues to relax and release the parking brake. When that happens, pain in locations even far from the original tension can be relieved.
A nice example of this is Marilyn*, a middle-aged woman came to see me for help with her right shoulder. She was on anti-inflammatory medications and had been through an extensive therapy program of exercise and joint manipulation. Yet she was still experiencing a great deal of discomfort. She struggled to sleep at night, put on her in the morning shirt, and even reach overhead.
When I evaluated Marilyn’s fascial system, I could feel that the tissues pulling on her shoulder were actually coming from around her liver, which is below the ribs on the right side of the body. When I asked her about it, she told me about a car accident she was in 15 years earlier. The motion forces and the crush of her seat belt likely created the long-held fascial tensions that wound their way around her body and eventually affected her shoulder.
As I treated Marilyn with gentle hand-on techniques designed to release those deeply held patterns, she gradually felt a freedom of movement in her shoulder. Her range of motion increased and she began to sleep at night, even stopping her anti-inflammatory medication. Exercise became a positive experience because she was no longer re-irritating symptoms as if her parking brake was on.
Over a series of sessions we released the tension around Marilyn’s liver and other areas distant to her shoulder. Finally, she regained full pain-free use of her arm.
In cases of puzzling pain conditions like these, you can only begin the natural process of self-correction when you relieve stress at the source. Once you do that, the parking brake can finally be released and the rest of the body can glide easily back into place.
*Name changed to respect privacy.
Mary Peterson, PT, MS Ed, works hand-in-hand with people in pain who want to create a new relationship with their bodies. For more than 18 years she has integrated light-touch therapies in customized treatment plans that relieve pain and dysfunction by removing the cause, rebalancing the body, and educating individuals in self-care. Visit http://www.marypetersonpt.com for a free phone consultation.
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