Muscle, fascia and organ adhessions from infection= pain

I had horrible adhesions internally long after surgery. My internal organs adhered to each other. I would bend over and I could not straighten up sometimes. It hurt.

I had a friend that suggested cottage cheese with flax oil. I ate that for about a month and all be darn..... no more adhesions.

artermix- I'll goggle Sue Hitzmanns book. Great to know this.

"All the exercises requires the individual to take charge to know their own body in dept" - Nothing like learning muscles that you cant spell! But , yes, you become the one to fix this.

It even twisted my spine. But I also had all over muscle spasims while trying to sleep some time after my initial lyme symptoms surfaced 25 years ago. I continued athletic training back then I made it worse. Years of this then created muscle imbalance. I use a thin heal lift to help this.

I've done all sorts of customized specific PT / strenght training for certain areas, but the adhessions stayed.

The only thing so far that works for me to physically break down my adhessions, and then rebuild the muscle around it after and real-life test a lot to see results a few days after. One area at a time.

Wish I knew about this years ago (pre internet) - dont think anyone did though.

PeteZa-

Well I cant stand cottage cheese, but I will try anything to speed this up.

How much of this and flax oil did you consume each day?

Know that flax can interfere with thyroid function for some people. I was using it years ago, and then when my thyroid went down, I found that each time I took it, my thyroid would swell up.

I've got some internal adhesions, and I would agree with PeteZa - they are miserable!

But I do have to say that it's now your fault, Astroman, that I'm now doing this adhesion work like you are talking about almost daily (I don't if there is too much pain, or the muscles are simply too tight that day) - you never mentioned that it's almost addictive!! Once I started and it produced good results, now I can't NOT do it (again, unless I'm having too much pain already).

The area from just above where a bra strap rides on a woman, all the way up to the base of my skull has always been so tight and always pulling the discs out of place that I was always in a lot of pain and the muscles were always very tight. My Chiro even told me 1 1/2 years ago that until I can find a way to release those muscles, he didn't think it was wise for him to continue to work on me much as it never lasted more than a few days.

It took a while to start to see positive results, but once I did, now I can't stop! I'm down to the deepest levels in between my shoulders now - and although they are sore, the rest of my upper back and neck are much improved!

So thank you for continuing to post about this!

I just KNEW there had to be some exercise that would also help!! Thanks for the suggestion of the deltoid flys! I'll be starting those tomorrow!!

So, if you release the front of the neck, that will help with the back of the neck as well? There's that one group of muscles that kind of wrap around the neck. If not, what do you do for the back of your neck, if you have issues there as well? I have a lot of trouble at the base of my neck and at the base of my skull - that very top disc is usually out for me - and is more than a tad sore!

But again - I had not idea how "addictive" this was going to be! LOL! So I'm trying to be careful how much I do, as toxins and bacteria are also stored in those sore muscles.

At this point, I'm still working with rounded wall corners, and tennis balls! LOL! I don't know if I'm ready for those smaller pointy things! LOL! I was pretty sore the the other night from just working with the tennis ball, but with plenty of pressure. I've needed to use ice and heat in the days following - but I can sure feel a less tension!!!

Well this is Active Release Technique for the side of your neck:

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfX1FB4Pa0w

Its the same thing I described for the front of your neck, but opposite. You can do that for back of neck also. But those muscles are stronger, so instead of fingers I use my Theracane to "anchor " the muscles prior to movement. I will also just "grind away" at the base of neck muscles with the small knobs on the theracane.

Treating the spine muscles between the blades (previous comment) will also help the back of your neck, since they are connected.

Base of skull: move head back, insert finger pressure in muscle at base, move head forward, hold at end a few seconds, repeat.. If this cause a back of head head ache, then find that post I made of releasing head muscles.

I used tennis ball 6 months before no more progression was made, then I stepped it up. I'm VERY aggressive now, tennis ball is to soft for aggressive work. But you have to start slow.

Quite often treating the opposite muscle of whats tight will loosen where you feel tight. Thats called refered pain. Hamstring stiff (?)back of thigh, but cant loosen it- treat the front quads, it might be those causing tension in the back.

Moving around treating/following the moving tension is an example of the "peeling onion" theory. The complete body feels better with even tension, (even if its tight). So as you loosen one area, you will be drawn to whats the next tightest on your body - as that will now bother you. This gets better in time. This is more apparent the tighter and more areas that are affected- so not as obvious with everyone.

I saved about $1000 this year doing this on my own. Several times a day now. My left hip joint is feeling a lot better by treating the whole area around it. With even tension, the joint is not being pulled on as much, and feels better. So the issue was not from the joint, but muscles/fascia/tendons around it. Now if it will only stay that way after biking.

This is a lot of work, but does have results. I will have to read that book mentioned up there a few comments away. Very little written info on this stuff.

When the muscle is sore and beat up from this (even black/blue) that is the time for static stretching holds- so it will heal the correct length and not shortened. Youve heard of Drs re-braking a broke bone that is not healing correct, this is partially the same, but its muscles instead. There is a term for this (I forget) but pro trainers have used this "method". I do this since I had a lot of small injuries that did not heal right with lyme (I'm not normal!). They were not that serious and would have healed right in non-lymies.