Fascia - A Key System Within the Body and Beyond

The myofascia system is a wonderful example of how my health issues, and my way of going about things, lead me to be "aware", at least, and perhaps somewhat "educated" about some things a while ago that I'm thrilled to see currently being focused upon by a big website such as Mercola dot com.  (See below, from September 1, 2018.)

I had a health lapse (the second or third main downturn in my life to that point) in the mid 1990s, in my mid 30's.  I was just beginning my studies in the occupational therapy program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado at the time.  (I believe it was like cumulative trauma, but cumulative exposures via cadaver anatomy, required vaccines my genetics are not suited for and lack of a team member on my health team by then who could teach me about risks / benefits of opting out via the allowed means.  Something I now regret on one hand, yet realize on another I learned, (and learned) which lead to creating Lumigrate. I'm here now with the hard-knocks lessons and doing this to help YOU! (The Lumigrate YOU! Model, below). 

The neurologist gave me the option of neurosurgery for disk issues in my cervical spine area, or physical therapy.  I opted for PT, and they handed me a list and suggested I contact one from the three listed up top.  I took the list to my primary OT instructor, and she said "oh, this one, Deb, is who taught me about myofascia release"; she'd been talking about it here and there since early on in the class she taught, which was one we'd all take the first semester in the program. It wasn't "written into the curriculum", but sprinkled by her ad-lib, if I recall correctly. She'd been the primary person to be overhauling the curriculum, and ours was the first class with the new program.  

It was frightening the things the previous students had been educated about which were skipped in the new.  We protested, effectively and in a civil, mature way.  We got results but they were really weak 'patches'.  Suffice it to say the OT program was psychologically stressful more than usual at that time, and starting out learning in the field was as well.  

Body (such as fascia), mind (such as psychological stress) and spirit is the platform I basically utilize for information I provide at Lumigrate, learned the hard way.  I'd say that fascia may possibly be one thing that somehow has something to do with all three.  It may be what connects more than is even presented in this video, which I hope you spend the 45 minutes to view.  Peeling the onion! (2012, Lumigrate)

I'd initially gone to acupuncture, and not see any results despite doing all the herbs and needles, AND believing in how those worked.  However, it was not a "waste" of time, energy and money because the L.Ac. gal did identify a key issue with diet in the initial exam. I took her advise of what to go about with it, and as I said, saw no results at all, but something about that one thing stuck in my mind later, and would come up after pursuing what mainstream doctors via my insurance benefits find.  

Which was basically bafflement as to what was causing my progressive neurological-type symptoms; I luckily had symptoms improve from the PT intervention (greatly) and then pursued an MD the acupuncturist knew of who was doing "integrative medicine".  He tested for IgG food allergies, identifying what my body was reacting to more or less, and I then simply eliminated the ones that were significant.  (I was eating gluten / wheat and cassein / dairy free in the mid 1990s!)(egg was the third).

He also, thankfully, said to me "as you go forward from here, you're going to meet people who say this is psychosomatic.  It's not.  You're proactive, you're not wanting this, you're doing everything you can figure to change it, and this is not in your head."  I'd somehow never had a provider say that, though I did experience the typical family of origin not really caring to figure it out, not helping me (typically), which most with complex chronic conditions such as mine share. That was a great MD, and I really appreciate what I got from those two appointments I had 20-25 years ago.  

Today, and for seven years, I've been helped, increasingly, by the input of Dr. Claus-Peter Kessler, an American-trained MD and German auricular medicine practitioner (and teacher to us on Facebook).  He gets credit for posting the link, below, with the following comment:

Caused by disturbing fields influencing the viscosity of the intervertebral joint fluid, irritating the nerve roots, leading to contractions of muscle tissue, vasoconstriction, decreasing lymph flow, and influencing the fascia.  (underscore added by me, ~Mardy)

articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/09/01/what-is-fascia.aspx

As I find it helpful to encourage people to know what awaits them at links I suggest, here's the highlights provided in their Story At A Glance: 

STORY AT-A-GLANCE 

However, I found this summary to not be mentioning things I think are important key or search words.  "Substance P" was one -- I thought "How many years has it been since I heard Substance P!".  "Collagen" was another (which I was immersed in lately, it's all the rage).  

Now, you might want to know more about how to find Dr. Kessler.  Over a year ago I provided a topic on Lumigrate about Dr. Kessler, the link is: www.lumigrate.com/forum/claus-peter-kessler-md-facebook-learn-test-order-system-disrupted-his-mantra

Live and learn!  Learn and live better!! ~ Mardy

 2017 O'Rio Grande getting Ortho-Bionomy session with Travis Reed (a L.M.T. in Grand Junction, Colorado).  Influencing the tissues, in the direction they wanted to move most easily, as I understood it, was a key to the technique.  And interestingly, O'Rio's nervous system was changed; for about a month after, whenever you scratched the white area the left hand is on in this photo, both back legs would spontaneously move.  OR with a loud noise such as a smoke detector going off, similar to loud noises with those with brain injury having legs give out (experience from my occupational therapy career).  

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