CORRECT POOR POSTURE

Fascia is a type of connective tissue that surrounds and supports various structures in the body, including muscles, bones, and organs. It is dense, fibrous, and made up of collagen and other proteins.

Fascia has several functions, such as providing structural support, allowing movement and flexibility, and facilitating communication between different parts of the body.

Tight or restricted fascia can cause pain, stiffness, and limited mobility. but it can adapt to mechanical stress, remodelling the cellular/tissue structure and changing to suit the environment.

Even when we are just sitting or standing, our body is constantly making adjustments to compensate for our motions, big or small. The connecting mechanism of all these movements is fascia.

Its job is to adapt to mechanical stress and if that mechanical stress is abnormal or dysfunctional, your fascia has to work double time and compromise its values to adapt to that stress.

This is the fundamental basis of maladaptation. You put your body in a certain position or move it in a certain way enough times and it is forced to adapt to that environment – whether that adaption benefits you or harms you.

Once your body has maladapted to an environment of dysfunctional movement, your fascia becomes less lubricated and rigid. It essentially calcifies/hardens.

Your body’s structure adapts to dysfunctional movements and loses its structural integrity. People with poor posture feel much less connected within their body because their connecting mechanism, fascia, is now compromised.

Fascia doesn’t just handle posture, it innovates and connects the immune system, the nervous system, pain receptors, and just about every single system within your body. Dry and dysfunctional fascia therefore causes a host of issues aside from poor posture.

Dysfunctional fascia turns basic feeling receptors within the body into pain receptors. These receptors become overactive and can be identified as a source of chronic pain.