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Let's learn some more about the body. THIXOTROPY - WTF? Thixotropy - when a gel gets more solid when cool, more liquid when warm. Like jam.
The GROUND SUBSTANCE in your body displays this phenomenon. Ground substance is the egg white-like goo that our connective tissues ooze out. It gets thicker when it stays in the same shape, isn't warmed, isn't stretched, gets fed junk and no water.
FASCIA has more ground substance (egg white goo where the groceries get brought into cells and the trash taken out) than any other connective tissue (cartilage, ligaments, tendons, bone, fat, blood).
Fascia is both gooey and structured. I think of it as the confluence of a net shopping bag, fishing line (incredibly strong and resilient, fibers made of collagen), and slime. It goes around and through your muscles and around your organs.
You are built not entirely unlike the protective luggage wrap.
Injury, time, postural habits, habitual movement patterns, stress, lack of movement packs the fibers more tightly together. In fact, two neighbors can and often do get sticky and become glued together. This is why you can't touch your toes if you can't touch your toes.
Killer whales in captivity show more proof: those fins have evolved to swim much deeper with less gravity. Whales in captivity tend to swim in one direction resulting in droopy fin syndrome.
Do you have droopy human syndrome? Unfortunately a standing desk won't solve everything. Before we had sitting jobs, we had standing jobs with all sorts of standing body issues. Sitting isn't killing you, staying still is killing you. MOVEMENT IS THE ANSWER.
Bodywork, physical therapy, and movement re-education like yoga, pilates, gyrotonic, and feldenkrais breaks up unhelpful bonding if you've got issues in your tissues. #loveyourfascia
