Q: How does the most common cause of chronic pain (fascial adhesion) in 30-60 YOs form? Denville NJ

🙋‍♂️ Teddy asked, “Do adhesions form from bad habits, an injury, or both?”

Your body’s ability to do work = BUCKET 🪣

Work your body does = 💧WATER INSIDE YOUR BUCKET 🪣

When you put too much water in your bucket by doing too much activity = OVERLOAD

Your body experiences overload with some SYMPTOM (usually PAIN) 💥

Adhesions form due to LONG TERM OVERLOAD of muscles.

Long term means years to decades.

Most of our patients are between 30-60 years old.

30 is old enough to have lived and have lots of adhesion.

60 is young enough to not have major arthritis yet.

When a 10 year old comes in with chronic pain, we think “This isn’t good.”

You can overload muscles in a few ways:

1️⃣ Too much stress with good form Ie typing for decades …

… can result in wrist problems.

2️⃣ Normal stress with bad form Ie squatting with no weight but letting your knee cave in or butt wink too early …

… can herniate a disc or tear a meniscus.

3️⃣ Very high stress with healthy, fit muscles Ie A professional football player gets into a severe car accident

All 3 ways form adhesion.

To prevent more adhesion from getting laid down:

👉 Do strength movements in as full a range of lotion as possible

👉 Do some exercises in 3-5 reps (power), others in 9-12 reps (hypertrophy), others in 15-20 reps (stamina)

They all work different attributes of fitness.

👉 Isolate body parts to work on weaknesses

👉 Constantly vary movement outside workouts through each day Ie DO NOT sit for 8 hours straight.

Instead, get up every 30 mins and walk or do some lunges.

➡️ Comment below, any thoughts?

#painrelief #chronicpain #fascia

[cathrineii]

Soooo helpful! Thank you for educating us. I've just discovered your channel and binge watching this fantastic content to better understand how to heal my situation. Unfortunately I'm nowhere near NJ and won't have a chance to travel to the US in the near future, but your content helped me understand what caused my problem and what treatment I shall seek. Hopefully, a God sent adhesion specialist is planted somewhere in the UK and I can heal.

[simont]

When it comes to back pain, it's important to realize that the lumbar discs consists of multiple layers, like an onion, and hence a bad posture habit can hence slowly weaken a disc layer by layer with very little to no symptom, until suddenly on perhaps just a normal load the outer layers bulge out, and you have a disc hernia, and can't move, stand, sit or sleep.
Further though, if you are in that situation, more important than visiting a doctor or getting a diagnosis, is to get an inversion table and use it multiple times a day, focusing on getting a relaxation of the autonomously controlled back muscles, which takes a few minutes of focused relaxation for them to let go, you can feel it. A couple of weeks of this can 100% fix acute cases. Posture/habit that caused the problem must also be understood and changed. Age-related degenerative cases may take longer.