Fascia: Real Tissue, Real Promise — But You're Changing Your Nervous System, Not 'Breaking Up' Fascia

Summary

Fascia is a genuinely real, **densely-innervated, mechanically-active** tissue with promising research fronts (low-back-pain "gliding," hyaluronan densification) — but the field is unusually contaminated by sell-side conflicts, and its central overclaim is the mechanism: foam rolling, stretching and bodywork reliably improve **short-term mobility and recovery, mostly by changing neural tone and pain perception, not by "breaking up," "melting," or restructuring fascia.**