If you’ve ever peeled the skin off a piece
of chicken
you may have noticed that each muscle is covered and enveloped by
a thin, clear coating, almost like saran wrap. We refer to
this material as fascia. Fascia covers and separates all the
muscles in the body, one from another. In addition, fascia
provides a protective coating for every bone, organ, artery
and vein, and every tissue of the body. For example, the fascial
tissue that covers the lungs is called Pleura. When it becomes
enflamed, we call that pleurisy. The fascial coating over
the brain is called the dura. That’s where the word epidural
comes from. The great osteopath, Dr. Robert Fulford made tremendous
strides in discovering that the fascia can become distorted, or
hold abnormal tension. Strong emotions, physical traumas,
and other insults that the body may endure can all distort and twist
the fascial tissue. The fascia then holds those energies within
itself, causing imbalance to occur in the body.
If the fascial network in the body is
distorted, will the structure of the body be pulled out of alignment?
Of course. If the fascia is distorted around the organs in
the body, will the chemical processes and reactions taking place
in those organs function as efficiently? I don’t think so. Because
of the electrical nature of fascia, fascial distortion also seems
to affect the energetic makeup of the body and electrical transmission.
In his research, Dr. Fulford found that
by using a mechanical device called a percussor, (essentially a
heavy duty percussing vibrator) he was able to instill motion into
the fascial tissues and get them to actually unwind and unravel.
The results that Dr. Fulford and others have obtained using percussors
to unwind the fascial tissue have been nothing short of miraculous.
Long-standing physical problems have immediately resolved themselves
upon percussion. It was in May of 2000 that I made what I
believe to be an enormous breakthrough in working with the fascia.
After experimenting with Dr. Fulford’s technique in various ways
I began to think that perhaps there might be a better way.
At any given time in the body, there is a certain amount of fascial
distortion. The subconscious mind, the amazing computer that
it is, is fully aware of this distortion picture, and comprehends
it in the most minute detail. As a result, the subconscious
mind also knows of a point of unraveling, or unwinding. If
this particular point is percussed at a certain precise angle for
a certain precise length of time, the entire distortion picture
in the body will begin to unwind spontaneously.
I’ve seen patients with jaw pain suddenly
have complete disappearance of their pain by percussing a spot on
the calf. I’ve seen a patient who had Sciatica and by percussing
her unraveling point, which was just over the liver, her sciatic
pain was instantly gone. An interesting thing to note about
the unraveling point is that it is very rarely found in the same
spot twice. A regular part of our treatment protocol is to
check each patient each time we see them to see if there is fascial
distortion, and if there is, we will usually find one unraveling
point. We apply a percussor to that point and through muscle
testing we can determine the precise angle and time span that we
percuss the point for that duration of time at that angle.
The fascial distortion in the body can be ‘unraveled’ completely
within 10 to 30 treatments, in most cases.
