Are you in pain from an accident, injury, surgery, repetitive movement pattern or poor posture? 

Does your pain shift and move into different areas of your body? Are you tired, do you ache, get fatigued easily? Do your joints hurt, do you get sharp, shooting sensations, or does it feel like areas in your body are weak and just not coming on line, maybe you have leg pains, numbness or tingling, maybe your back, neck or shoulders go out, have spasms that are taking up your precious time and energy.

Do you wonder if you might need surgery to find a solution that is long lasting? Is the pain dull, aching, do you have lumps or masses that feel like hard, hot swollen tender, or adhered kind of like cement? Is the tissue changing in density, that leaves you with consistently less mobility, with less feeling or sensation? Do you feel out of balance and asymmetrical? Do you wish you had better posture? Do you try hard to hold yourself in a balanced way and you can’t seem to hold a position of good posture?

You don’t have to continue to experience chronic, long lasting pain. Myofascial Release is an effective treatment that releases restrictions in your muscular fascial skeletal system, bringing you into alignment and out of pain, so you can feel better and live your best life.

If you are experiencing symptoms and diagnoses that you don’t understand, that are ongoing and may be causing you discomfort, you have fascial restrictions. The variety of connective tissue disorders and diseases are vast and affect your bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, muscles, organs, skin, brain, spinal cord... everything. Essentially all of you is made of connective tissue and connective tissue dis-ease is a vast variety of diseases that comes from disconnection of and breaks in your connective tissues.

Your muscular fascial system wraps every single one of the 28–36 trillion cells in your body. Fascia is the medium of your body and changes in its design by varying in size, shape and density from fluid to bone. Forever changing to accommodate and adapt to your specific needs, greatly differing to create each functional role it holds and plays.

Every one of the systems of your body is wrapped, held and bathed in fascia. Fascia is the fluid that bathes each cell internally within the cell and externally outside of the cell. Every time the cells add they are wrapped in layers of fascia in the form of fluid and membrane. Your fascial health is determined by the connectivity of your fascial structures. The consistency of your fascia determines your health and function, or disease and dysfunction of your entire organism.

I’ve had three clients this week come that have had pain that has been ongoing for nearly 20 years. One woman has had migraines for decades. One man came in with back pain and said neither chiropractic, Rolfing or acupuncture was able to change the symptoms long term beyond a couple days of temporary relief. A woman has had plantar fasciitis pain in her feet since she can remember.

When we experience pain that is chronic, it’s important the body doesn’t get used to it. This is not an ideal way to live, and we can get caught in a negative feedback loop that can keep us cycling in the brain body connection far beyond what is necessary to heal or healthy to endure.

Our brains are so connected to the rest of our body and messages of all sorts are being relayed back and forth between the control unit of the brain and the entire body with each system hard and soft wired. There is no part of you that is not connected to every other part of you. The messages can get set on auto pilot. And when it’s a pain cycle the body is used to protecting itself. So it can be running a pain program and overriding our healing. We can get stuck in a negative feedback loop that actually prevents healing.

Auto pilot comes into play when we are not present and actively giving attention to our bodies, and observing and influencing our current state. Our tissues are continuously healing, or degrading. And we can influence our healing by cutting the negative feedback loop. Maybe we are overly focused on working and producing with little care to our body until we are in pain. Maybe over our lives we have developed chronic pain patterns and it feels impossible to get out of them. It’s not impossible.

MFR can help you get out of your pain cycles, increase your mobility, and ability to maintain a centered posture that holds positive tension tensegrity that supports balance, equilibrium and health.

We stack our bodies in segments from the ground up, and we have increasing pressures and tensions depending upon the position of each joint, which ideally is centered and in right relationship to the segment above and below. When our body is out of alignment it can lock down joints, it can create tension that is distributed to other areas of the body.

Fascial pressure on cells cause cellular dysfunction, inflammation, rupture of membranes, leaks, tears, rips and breaks in the fascia at micro and macro levels can cause damage at each level from cellular to whole organs, to regions of the body. Fascial connective tissue disease is one of the most downplayed and under diagnosed conditions.

I have seen diagnoses change with Myofascial Release treatment. I have personally seen multiple diagnoses of cancer change with intensive style MFR. I have seen people bent all the way over come into upright positions with MFR. I have seen clients correct kyphotic, lordotic, and scoliosis conditions.

Once hunchbacked, people unable to move their head to turn and look over their shoulder have dramatically improved their mobility, sensations of pain and return to healthy toned tissue. Migraine headaches gone. I have taken 90 degree rotations out of spines, people have come in with slipped and herniated discs, spondylitis, spondylosis, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, and spinal stenosis improve their conditions, substantially lessen their pain, inflammation and immobility with MFR.

I have seen so many people who come in with severe pain from scoliosis grow several inches taller, reporting that they can walk better, stand for longer, bend over, reach out, carry heavier loads, return to the activities of work and leisure and simply enjoy life more with Myofascial Release treatments. MFR delivers results that I continue to be impressed with after over 25 years of my professional career.

Myofascial Release treats your symptoms directly at their source. Whatever you are experiencing, the current state of your fascia has direct influence over your health, your immune system, your ability to function, from the cellular level to the function and integration of all of the complete systems of your body. Each system depends upon the health of every other system.

All systems are embedded in fascia. Fascia has a tensile strength of up to 2,000 lbs per square inch and can anchor down and adhere tissues causing long lasting dysfunction to whole quadrants of the body. Adhesions, scar tissue can grow like weeds, with stress, and tension, compressing on sensitive structures like nerves, arteries, blood vessels, to name a few.

I have been studying the human body for over 25 years, and I am still fascinated. I continually study the updated scientific information because we learn more and more about the diverse roles fascia plays in our bodies.

Fascia is all about connection.

Myofascial Release by John Barnes is a particular method in which I am able to use all of my training from Swedish, Zen Shiatsu, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Aqua Cranial, Connective Tissue Therapy, Thai Massage, Connective Tissue Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Abhyanga, Polarity, Acupressure, Reflexology, Reiki, Structural Integration, Rolfing, Myofascial Rebalancing, Joint Decompression, Cranial Sacral Therapy for Infants and Mothers.

I have been trained in Myofascial Release seminars including MFR I, II, Unwinding, Fascial Pelvis, Cervical-Thoracic, and MFR Women’s Health. I have also been trained in Presence Centered Awareness Therapy, a 16-month synthesis of consciousness work that explores psychosomatic therapies, meditations, visualizations, hypnosis, Gestalt, Jung, Advaita, child regression, group and parts work.

I am kind of a geek with a big heart. I have died and come back to life. I dropped out of high school and went straight to college at 15. My first job, I was a librarian. I love exploration, and my ancestors were pioneers, nurses and engineers.

I studied art, architecture and business in the two colleges that I attended. I enjoy efficient well run systems. I like to see people heal and reach their potential, and I have helped thousands of people get healthier and happier.

I wish you well, and I believe wholeheartedly in your infinite potential to heal, and I move in a direction to positively affect each being that I am so honored to touch with care, love and pure intention.

Angela Rose is a Myofascial Release Therapist and an Injury Specialist. She practices in Grass Valley at Sol Bodyworks. She treats clients who have chronic pain patterns so they can heal, feel better, get out of pain and back to living their best lives with Myofascial Release.

And she is so grateful to serve.