Fascia is layers of connective tissue throughout your entire body that help stabilize your joints and muscles. 

Fascia is most easily understood when we break it down into three general categories – and, as you’ll see, it’s found everywhere in your body:

1. Superficial fascia. This layer is right under your skin.
2. Deep fascia. This layer is the dense connective tissue that forms a stocking around the muscles and tendons beneath the superficial fascia. Your deep fascia covers bones, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels.
3. Visceral fascia. The layer goes around certain organs that settle into your body’s open spaces, including the lungs, heart, and stomach.

Essentially, the fascial network is responsible for tension integrity. When it’s too tight in one area or another, you’ll experience discomfort. When it’s too loose, you’ll feel instability. If you experience uncomfortable joints, tight muscles, or your body feels limited while performing normal activities, this could indicate that your fascia is out of balance. Scheduling a session with a QUALIFIED FASCIAL STRETCH PROFESSIONAL at StretchFit Life can truly change how you feel in your body!

Fascial Stretch Therapy (FST) is a complete, full-body functional mobility restoration system that was created in 1995 by Ann and Chris Frederick of the Stretch To Win Institute in Chandler, Arizona. FST providers are trained in assisted stretching, mobilization, and corrective movement training. FST was designed to retrain and rebalance the fascial network to bring comfort to movement in every day life, as well as to enhance the body’s natural ability to heal itself and recover.

Using FST, StretchFit Life offers our clients a revolutionary path to pain management, movement re-education and wellness.

Not at all. Regardless of whether you consider yourself athletic or sedentary, the technique is designed to be pain-free for everyone.

FST targets the fascial networks throughout your body, first by adding manual traction to decompress the joints, then moving slowly to allow the fascia to release and lengthen.

We use only our hands and bodies in a variety of ways to slowly assist the targeted joint(s) in comfortably releasing.

No. Myofascial Release therapy calls for sustained pressure on a specific muscle, which can sometimes be painful. FST is painless.

Yes! FST can improve your range of motion and flexibility and reduce the risk of injury.

You needn’t be an athlete to feel the benefits of FST. If your joints and muscles ache and you want to feel better, give us a call!

Wear clothing designed for working out that allows for maximum flexibility. In addition, we ask both men and women to wear undergarments.

To determine both quick fixes and long-term needs, we’ll discuss your current concerns, as well as the day-to-day demands you place on your body. We recommend a 60-minute session for your first appointment, to allow us the time needed for this evaluation.

Certification in Fascial Stretch Therapy is exclusively provided by the Stretch To Win Institute in Chandler, Arizona. Three levels of training and certification are available:

LEVEL 1 Practitioners will evaluate your tissue mobility and identify areas of your body that are out of balance, then provide a stretch session that’s suitable for most people with common imbalances.
LEVEL 2 Practitioners can, if needed, stretch deeper into your joint capsules using more sophisticated patterns and corrective techniques of FST spirals and diagonals.
LEVEL 3 Specialists offer an advanced assessment and soft tissue treatment techniques that simultaneously integrate the upper and lower body in creative ways that individualize your session. Level 3 specialists are part of an elite group of fascial stretch practitioners throughout the world, and Tracy is only one of four in Massachusetts!

Per the State of Massachusetts, effective February 15, 2022:
A fully vaccinated individual should wear a mask indoors if you have a weakened immune system, or if you are at increased risk for severe disease because of your age or an underlying medical condition, or if someone in your household has a weakened immune system, is at increased risk for severe disease or is unvaccinated.

We will continue to leave a minimum of 30 minutes between each appointment to ensure that there is little or no contact with others during your time here. During this in-between time, we clean all contact surfaces using hospital-grade sanitizers and disinfectants. We also purify the air via a HEPA filtration system, and cross-ventilate our studio between appointments.