06/06/2026
💃🧎♀️🚶♀️🏌️♀️🤸♀️🤾♀️ For many people aches and pains are due to 'dehdrated' connective tissue where there is a lack of glide between the muscles' layers where range of motion is limited and movement is impaired not allowing the nerves to be lax therefore signaling 'pain'
Don't think that by drinking gallons of water will keep your connective tissue (fascia) hydrated - fascia is a dense tissue, it requires movement, mechanical pressure, and essential nutrients to absorb and retain those fluids.
Fascia — what we call "the inner wrapping" — is the tissue that covers every muscle, bone, and vessel in your body. When it is healthy, it is soft and wet. Everything slides. Everything flows. Your body moves the way it is supposed to.
But without gentle daily movement, fascia dries. Shrinks and hardens. And it begins to squeeze everything underneath — including the vessels that drain fluid from your body. Fluid pools. Inflammation builds. Your face swells. Your legs grow heavy. Your joints ache. Not because they are damaged — because they are being strangled by dried tissue.
As a Massage Therapist I feel the 'stuckness' in lots of fascia and generally it's where the client points to their pain. Most employments today puts the body in a flexed and shortened position I'm thinking sitting here, sitting at work, sitting in the car, train, bus to work and back, sitting on the couch most of the evening (for many) and most of you wonder why you're stiff and achy and lacking energy.
This is information you already are aware of I'm sure, but sometimes we think that if we feel achy and in pain (case by case of course) that laying in bed or resting on the couch will help, it does help in the sensation at the time until it's time to get up and move that's where you feel stiff and achy all over again!
To combat this, move as often as you can, change positions, try squatting or standing every 30 mins or so over sitting at 90 degrees hips and knees. Walk often and move the joints as they are built to such as the shoulder and hip joints don't just flex and extend they adduct and abduct too! The ankle joint is one often neglected - it's so far away! It can also pronate and supinate and the toes can flex and extend which again if the fascia is 'stuck'and you go to do these actions sometimes cramp sets in, sound familiar? We forget the hands and fingers and boy do we need them!
Here's to 'unsticking your fascia', now that's something I never thought I'd say!!!
Lorna 🕺
