Daily Maestroism

DM #101

Thursday, September 1st, 2016

DM #101: Scars change EVERYTHING, people! @stopchasing pain first opened my eyes to the importance of treating scars, and then last weekend @davidnkt1951 highlighted it, circled it, underlined it, bolded it, and made sure everyone in the room realized it.
As soon as there is any kind of incision to the tissue, that tissue is changed. Yes, it will ‘heal’, but neural pathways have been altered, wires have been crossed, signals get mixed, and what once was, no longer is. Nerves use fascia as scaffolding, and when there is any sort of incision, that scaffolding gets affected. This means that the nerves and what they do, and where they go, get affected.

In DM #92 I posted that C-section scars are one of the number one overlooked and underappreciated pathologies when it comes to “core” dysfunction. After this weekend I would go so far as to say that scars are THE number one overlooked and under-appreciated pathologies when it comes to ANY movement dysfunction.
You MUST work on scars. Work to restore not only the mobility of the tissue, but also to restore appropriate recruitment of tissue, as scars greatly affect which tissues are facilitated or inhibited, and what fires in what order.
Remember that time that my ACL scar was interfering with recruitment of my anterior chain musculature? Yeah, that happened. May sound like some far out voodoo ? , but I wouldn’t lie to you. Don’t believe me? That’s good. Go look it up, tease it out, and learn it for yourself. That’s how you truly grease the groove and retain the stuff that goes into that brain of yours.

In any case, it’s all connected, folks. Make sure you work on those scars.
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