What is fascia?

Fascia is a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.)

Now that we know it literally covers every part of our body and binds it together, let’s look at how the fascial tissue affects us when it loses its lubrication. When we have an injury or imbalance in the body, fascia does everything in its power to “fix” it by creating more hard tissue like scar tissue, but when the body is in an imbalanced state, it hardens it in that state making it harder for the body to reverse that imbalance on its own. That is why Myofascial Release is so important because it helps bring the lubrication back to the fascial system, stretch it out and bring the tissue back to a balanced state.