Understanding the fascia and how to support it is crucial for a life full of mobility, health, pleasure, and joy. Everything comes down to an ease of flow. Scar tissue and adhesions are the culprit that create challenges in the body, wherever they are located. Also, there are cause sites that live at a distance…
I love to read testimonials from those who have benefited from Block Therapy. Whenever I hear that someone has gained the understanding of how-to self-care, I get very excited because they experience the power of fascia decompression and the body’s innate ability to heal. In our Facebook community, testimonials are shared on a regular basis.…
For years I have been sharing a different approach to addressing acute injury. Icing never made sense to me as the body’s initial response to injury or stress is inflammation. I couldn’t wrap my head around why we would move in the opposite direction to this. I remember the first time that I questioned using…
“The fascia is any tissue that contains features capable of responding to mechanical stimuli.” In our last blog about Lisa Songer-Burkes remarkable healing journey with Block Therapy, we shared how she was able to defy the limitations of healing after an accident where she sustained multiple fractures. Lisa was expected to not walk again, or…
Injury is something we will all likely experience at one time or another. What is most important to understand when this occurs, is how to handle it to create the most efficient healing possible. As an Athletic Therapist, I was trained to handle injury in the first 48-72 hours with the RICE method – Rest,…
Neck pain is a common complaint that can be an annoyance or extremely debilitating. It can be caused from an injury or from negative posture. Whatever the reason the pain develops, one of the most important and effective things you can do is to strengthen the tongue muscle. The tongue muscle has some obvious functions,…
Tension in the jaw is something I have known very well. There was a time when I was under so much stress, filled with anxiety, that I had to think and almost force to open my mouth. What I know today is that there were a number of factors that took me/my body/fascia to that…
Frozen shoulder, and shoulder pain in general, affect many and can take the joy out of life. The most important thing to understand when dealing with this issue is where to treat the body so you can get to the root of the problem. When you have pain in an area, you intuitively want to…
Back pain is such a common concern, and can range between being an annoyance to completely overtaking one’s life. I have had my share of back pain and know that it can zap you of joy, the ability to live a normal active life and can spiral you into depression. My pain partly came as…
Sometimes breaking down a word into the meaning of its parts makes it easier to understand why the problem is there, and what we can do to correct it. “Itis” always means inflammation of, when at the end of words like arthritis, bursitis, tonsillitis and tendonitis. It simply means inflammation of that structure. Inflammation, when…
