7 Signs Your Fascia Needs Work!

How are you feeling? Like, truly?

While it may be obvious that your fascia needs releasing when you have pain or mobility issues, there are other, lesser-known signs that your body gives when your fascia needs attention:

1. Feeling heavy/"dense": Fascia can thicken from stress or lack of movement. Imagine layers of "plastic wrap" fusing together and creating that heavy feeling from the lack of space.

2. Feeling sluggish/tired: If you feel tired even after a normal night's sleep, have brain fog, or feel generally sluggish throughout your day, this is a sign of fascial dehydration and/or stagnant fluid in your lymphatic system. (Reminder: your lymphatic system lives in your superficial fascia. So when fascia shrinks down or becomes restricted, it's challenging for lymph fluid and cellular waste to get carried out)

3. Chronic dehydration: I bet your first thought is, "I know, I know, I just need to drink more water." The reality is: while drinking water is important, that water can't reach the areas you need it to without movement and without releasing tight areas of fascia. Getting blood flow moving and increasing the water in our fascia (called ground substance) through proper fascia release is how you will truly be able to rehydrate your body.

4. Stiffness in the mornings: If you have any aches, pains, or stiffness in the morning that seem to go away as you get going, this is NOT a sign of getting old. It's a sign your fascia is tight!

5. Getting super sore after your workouts/feeling like it's taking longer to recover: This is a sign lactic acid, inflammation, and cellular nutrition are unable to easily flow to/from all the areas that need it from fascial tension and lack of space.

6. Feeling disconnected from your body/emotions: Fascia is a highly sensitive organ. It's filled with free nerve endings and proprioceptors that are constantly relaying information at hyper speed, making sense of your outer world as well as taking stock of your inner world. When fascia becomes tight, restricted, and dense, the communication process becomes slow, jumbled, and disconnected. 

7. Feeling like any slightly stressful situation sends you over the edge: Our fascia, our body, and our nervous system need SPACE. When a toddler falls down, it's no big deal, right? What about when an elderly person falls down? There's a big difference between a body that's stiff, tight, and dehydrated and a body that's supple, spacious, and buoyant when it receives an impact. The same is true for stress and emotional "impacts." The less space we have in our physical body, the less space we have to handle stress.

Any of these symptoms ring true for you? If even one lands, it's time to get out your roller! Just a few minutes a day will help release and rehydrate your tissue, move energy, reconnect you to your body, and even improve your resilience to stress. 

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