Fascial Release?

What is Fascia and why does it need releasing?
Linda: "Fascia is a connective tissue that is found throughout the body. It is a very thin membrane that surrounds and separates the muscles into bundles and muscle groups."

"The relationship of muscle to fascia could be considered similar to something inside a container. Let's use an analogy of water inside a balloon or glass. Both the balloon and water have the ability to move and change shapes, but the balloon can contain the water thereby dictates the shape of the water. If the balloon becomes rigid like a glass then no matter how much you stir the water, once you stop stirring, the water returns to the shape of its rigid glass container. By releasing the tension in the fascia, and returning it to the texture of the balloon, it allows the muscle to have greater freedom of motion with less stress and tension and therefore less discomfort."

What is ITM?

Question:  What is Integrated Therapeutic Massage?
Linda:  "It is a combination of all the different healing modalities that I have come into contact with throughout my years of practice. I choose to call it Integrated Therapeutic Massage because it is an integration of so many styles, techniques and philosophies that one cannot distinguish where one ends and the other begins."

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog. My name is Linda Becker and I am a licensed massage therapist. My hope is to use this site to highlight some of the answers I've offered to clients through the years. Hints about how to make some little changes in their daily activities that will impact the general comfort of their body mechanics.

There are many websites and books out there, but here we can do a question and answer...besides my just rambling on or pulling out questions from past clients  : o))