First I will tell you what the Myofascia is...
Fascia is a thin, almost translucent film that wraps around muscle
tissue. It is the tissue that holds all the other parts together. It gives shape to and supports all of the body's musculature.
You
can see myofascia if you cut up a fresh chicken. It is the thin, sticky, somewhat filmy material that wraps around the muscle
tissue. It wraps around muscle fibers, bundles of fibers, and the muscles themselves, and then goes on to form tendons and
ligaments.
For people with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and/or myofascial pain syndrome (MPS), the myofascia takes on
a new importance. Tightening and thickening of the myofascia occurs in many cases of FMS and/or MPS. If both of these conditions
are present, this tightening causes more than double the trouble.
When the myofascial tissues become thickened and
lose their elasticity, the neurotransmitter's ability to send and receive messages between the mind and body is damaged, and
the communication between the mind and body is damaged. Myofascia, then, may well be the key to what goes wrong in FMS&MPS
Complex.
In the myofascia there is a material called ground substance. This material can exist in a solid, semisolid,
or fluid state. When ground substance changes from a liquid to a gel, the myofascia tightens, and it is difficult to get it
to reverse to a liquid state again without intervention.
With MPS you have trigger points. I will go more into trigger
points on my
Symptoms of MPS page.
