@giller198 That's great! It's nice to hear from you. Fascial work can really change your life. It may take a long time to open up the layers of restrictions, so be patient. Ask your therapist what you can do at home to help yourself. You can progress a lot faster if you do home stretches at the places that need intervention. Remember it's a gentle easy stretch that you might have to hold for 20 minutes before it starts to release, but you'll learn what that feels like and get a lot of body awareness from it. I just swim for exercise and don't compete. I used to be a lifeguard and did synchronized swimming when I was younger. I've had some asthma/allergy breathing issues that affected me and made me work harder at breathing. I even went back to Mayo and saw a pulmonologist. I do allergy shots, including for allergies to my cats, but that wasn't enough and I didn't know it was the cause of the problems and made the phlegm stickier, so I had trouble getting rid of it. I still have my kitties, but now I sleep with a surgical procedure mask that filters out 99% of particles down to .micron just like a HEPA filter in addition to the HEPA filter I have in the room. That is helping a lot. I start using my neck muscles when I can't breathe and it just compounds the chest tightness. Since I made these changes, I breathe easier and my therapist said I have a lot less of the neck spasms that pull my first rib upward where it doesn't belong. The masks are 3M # 1820 Procedure Masks with > 99% @ 0.1 Micron particles for bacterial filtration efficiency. I think I'll make better progress now that my lungs are working better.

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