The Body Knows

Scars come from a cut or an opening: the body sends fibers to stabilize the wound, and it keeps sending them long after. Adhesions start differently. Every structure in the body except unmyelinated nerves is wrapped in fascia, and when an organ or muscle stays in dysfunction long enough, that fascia changes from fluid to crystalline and sticks to its neighbor. In this episode I walk through both, using the kidney and the psoas as an example, and show why scars and adhesions end up doing the same three things: reducing function, slowing fluid flow, and entrapping nerves.

This episode is for education and isn't medical advice.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Coming up
0:20 The Body Knows
0:35 Welcome: scars versus adhesions
0:43 How scar tissue forms
1:51 Fascia around everything
2:18 How adhesions form
2:57 Example: the kidney and the psoas
3:22 Fluid to crystalline
3:58 Adhesions versus scars
4:55 What both of them do
5:12 Until next time

What is The Body Knows?

How does the body actually heal? Leigh Ankrum — founder of the Ankrum Institute and a teacher of whole-body manual therapy — shares short, clear conversations on what your body is telling you: fascia, the nervous system, the body's pressure systems, movement, and the deeper patterns underneath pain. If you have ever sensed there was more to your symptoms than you were told, you are in the right place. The body knows — listen in.