If you are reading this you definitely want to know the answer.
I have been asked this question either exactly like this or some version of it many times.
It starts off something like this ” it as been 6 months and I am not better”
To be in pain for months is too long. It is debilitating and rapidly becomes the focus of your day. Either it never goes away or nothing that you can do escapes you from it.
Most of the time it will even prevent or hamper you from doing the basics. This forces you to rely on others to do the basics. For many, this is an embarrassing consequence of pain.
But the question remains, why has it been months sometimes years and I am not better or I feel worse. Let us start by talking about how you feel pain.
Pain is often associated with a physical injury of some kind. You are in pain because you had surgery, fell, been in a car accident and so on.Whenever we get injured the body reacts in two ways primarily. It releases chemical signals that stimulate local nerves to tell you where you have been injured. Secondly, it starts the process of healing the area that is damaged
The healing process takes about 6 to 8 weeks to heal enough where there is no longer damage or need to slow you down and release those chemical signals. Pain is to slow you down so that you don’t injury yourself further and allow the healing to occur without disturbance. As you heal your body releases less of these chemicals because they are no longer needed.
Why is it that it has been months after the injury or there was no injury at all and I am still in pain.
The reason is that the pain that you are having is not caused by the healing process months after the fact. The pain is caused by restrictions in the fascia that are so tight that it is causing pain.
The fascia is the connective tissue sheet that runs throughout the body. The sinew of the body. Whenever you get injured, be it yesterday or twenty years ago the fascia gets damaged too. What happens is that beautiful, individual layers of fascia get cut through and damaged when you get injured. As they heal, they do not go back to individual layers anymore. They get glued and tangled together.
Let me explain using an example. Take a fistful of your shirt in your hand and twist it. Do you see how the shirt fabric pulls in every direction around where you are grabbing?
That is what happens to the fascia after you get injured or have surgery.The fascia layers gets glued to itself and tangled up in a ball. This pulls the whole fascia tight.A tight fascia causes pain. A tight fascia doesn’t loosen up over time or get better with stretches and exercise. There is no medication that you can take to fix this that is why no pills work.
What you need is a hands-on approach to get rid of the tangled mess and remove the pain and tension in the fascia.
If you are tired of waiting to feel better, then Physiotherapy that I provide that works on the fascia is the something that has helped people like you.
Are you so sick of this pain you are ready to start now?
Jason
