@migizii Ah yes, those famous Minnesota winters... and snow season has already begun. When I had spine surgery in Rochester 3 years ago, we waited an extra day before driving back home because of some snow. There are some books and videos about self treatment on the MFR website that might help, but that won't take the place of working with a therapist. In case a travel option would work for you, John Barnes has clinics in Sedona and Pennsylvania and you can go there for a week of some intensive treatments, kind of working on it all at once. I've never done that, and my insurance wouldn't cover something like that, but it is an option if you can afford it. Even doing Yoga is fascial stretching.

I've been doing MFR for several years and have gotten pretty good at inventing ways to stretch my problem areas and listening to my body, and it complements what my therapist is doing. I have small balls that I can lay on, and a question mark shaped massage thing that has rubber knobs on the end that are great to push and pull on the skin to get a shearing action for fascial stretching. I used that and kept working on a tight spot she had started worked on, and got a breakthrough and significant improvement in that spot just last week. I bought that tool at a discount store ( 5 Below ). It sounds like you live in a remote and beautiful area of the country. When I was growing up, we had a canoe that was built in Bimidji.