Unlock Your Fascia to Go From Stiff to Swift in Menopause with Nicole Armbrust (Episode 206)

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt stiff and stuck like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz after being left out in the rain; have tight, sore knots that restrict your mobility, or have battled issues like frozen shoulder, this show is for you. We’re learning all about fascia–the unsung connective tissue that holds our muscles in place, facilitates healthy, dynamic movement, and transfers energy throughout the body. When it gets stuck–which it's more likely to do during peri and postmenopause–we do, too. This week’s guest, performance physical therapist Nicole Armbrust, guides us through a special presentation on fascial health and mobility so we can feel and play our best, injury and pain free for life. (As a bonus, Nicole gives a visual presentation, which you can watch on our Feisty Menopause YouTube channel.)

Nicole Armbrust is a performance physical therapist with 24 years of experience, a masters runner with 17 Boston Marathon finishes, and a UESCA certified running coach. She also has completed a Fellowship in Applied Functional Science (FAFS) through the Gray Institute. While years of clinical practice and patient care gave her vast experience, Nicole is pivoting her business/expertise away from “traditional PT” and into coaching, courses, and speaking engagements using a hybrid model of in-person and online offerings. You can find her on www.jumpstartrunning.com and Instagram under the same name.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.2	Hey, strong feisty women.
0:33.8	So, if you've ever felt stiff and stuck, a bit like the tin man of the Wizard of Oz after being left out in the rain, or have had tight sore knots that restrict your mobility or have battled issues like frozen shoulder, this show is for you.
0:50.3	We talk a lot about mobility here on hit play not not pause, because as estrogen walks out the door,
0:57.3	our musculoskeletal system can really take a hit, becoming weaker, more inflamed, prone to injury.
1:03.8	But what's often left out of this conversation is our fascia.
1:08.9	That thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood
1:14.4	vessel, bone, nerve fiber, and muscle in your body in place. Scientists used to think this stuff
1:20.7	was just inert. Medical students would literally toss it in the trash. But now we know it's way
1:27.3	more than just structural webbing. The fascia has
1:31.1	nerves that make it almost as sensitive as your skin, and when you're stressed, it tightens up.
1:37.2	Fascia also gets drier and tighter and stickier over time and with menopause, which can limit
1:43.2	your mobility and lead to painful knots
1:45.6	and poor movement patterns that open the door for pain and injury.
1:50.4	So this week, sit back because I have a mini masterclass, if you will, on mobility and
1:58.1	myofascial, and that's the fascia that surrounds the muscle, health and training.
2:03.0	Our instructor for this one is Nicole Armbrust, who is a performance physical therapist with 24
2:09.2	years of experience, a master's runner and certified running coach with 17 Boston Marathon
2:15.3	finishes under her belt, and a graduate of the fellowship in
2:19.1	Applied Functional Science Program through the Gray Institute.
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