I’ve been helping clients with Myofascial release and trigger point treatment for a while!
However I am starting to understand more and more what the connection is, how it all comes together and der fore how I can be of better help!
Jim has been using me to help with his flexibility for a while now.
We’ve been working a lot around his knee joint and connecting muscle to regain flexibility and strength after a knee replacement !
Jim is a runner and extremely fit, but has bad posture!
Lately I’ve noticed his posture getting worse!
Head extremely protruded towards the front, shoulders shrug up and caving in to the front, lower back very arched ….
While lying on his back his chin is facing up, which is an indication of very tight neck muscles as well.
I started to release some of his pectorial tightness by compressing on the tight fascia at the pectorial / shoulder attachement while rotating his arm ( positioned into 90 degrees) up and down…
I also worked on the connection of his sternoclydomastoid ( collar bone and head)!
Which were very much important points to work
on, but when I started compressing the medial quad attachment we’ve noticed a big release….
Jim told me that he immediately was breathing better and deeper!!!
So I’ve come to the conclusion that because of years of compensating for his bad knee, Jim’s kinetic chain has changed and catered to that compensation!
This made the anterior fascia so tight that quad and hip flexor (also extremely tight) pulls on his pelvis, rotating his pelvis to the front and causing extrem lordosis of his lower back, keeping all fascia tight including abdominal, pectorial, deltoid , and interfering with his lung capacity!

Constantly over stretching posterior fascia like hamstring, gluteus, quatrateus lumborum, latismus, trapezius muscles….
His tightness on his scaleens and sternoclydomastoid
has in parts to do with his tight intracostal muscles, which are responsible for breathing.
Those muscles lift your rip cage with every breath, and when tight , our neck muscles will take over!!!
Plan of action is to:
A.) strengthen back muscles, hams, trapz
B.) stretching front muscles chest, quads, hip flexors
C.) changing workout routine until posture changes and continuing to work on finding better balance 🙂

Watch your posture and changes of posture!
Try to adjust right away before more severe issues show up!
Our connective tissue is articulate, which means it is communicating ….
We have to teach our nervouse system to give the right signals to make it work in synergy!

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