FasciaL NETWORK

Intelligent Re-organisation of your Fascial Network:

Fascia is the Connective Tissue that forms the multi-layered 3-dimensional Fascial Network that surrounds and organises all muscles, bones, organs, vessels, the nervous system and lymphatic system – everything throughout the entire body.

Fascia contains 6 to 10 times more sensory nerve endings than muscles, making the Fascial Network the largest sensory organ in the body. Fascia also plays a key role in the creation and perception of pain.

Largely overlooked by medicine and most health modalities, Fascia is made up of fluid, collagen and elastin. It allows all other body parts to move properly and freely in relation to each other. Fascia forms ligaments and tendons that stabilise and hold us together, plus large sheets and wrappings that organise the coordinated transmission of movement and force through the layers of musculature.

This Incredible Fascial Network adapts over time by remodelling itself according to how you hold yourself and how you move.

Fascia is nourished by the movement of an integrated and balanced body structure, staying fluid and elastic where necessary, and strong and rigid in other areas requiring more stability. Proper function through the entire body ensures balanced and natural movement and a healthy vibrant body.

But with injuries, stresses and strains from bad posture and breathing, unbalanced movement patterns, repetitive strain, excessive exercise or sedentary work and life styles, the Fascial Network will deteriorate as it tries to compensate. It will build more rigidity and contraction where there should be movement, glueing layers of moving tissues together and robbing musculature of its ability to fully activate and release. Pain and stiffness will increase while agility and energy decrease. This is even more pronounced in people after accidents injuries and surgeries, where I find the effects on the Fascial Network are much deeper and wide-ranging.

Scientific research over decades confirms the importance of the Fascial Network – in structural balance and function, movement and stabilisation, force transmission through the body, elastic recoil, in the generation of sensation through sensory nerve endings, in high performance sports, in healing and repairing, and importantly in our natural immune functions.

Comprehensively reorganising and elevating the function and quality of Your Fascial Network is an integral foundation of Hellerwork Structural Integration, and key to making a huge difference in whole body structure and function, sensation and feeling, and longevity.