FAST Wellness Soft Tissue Center

Let’s wish one of our own a very Happy Birthday!!! Mindi Deschenes, here’s to another year of wisdom and happiness!! Enjoy your day!! 🎁🎈🎂🎉

One of our beautiful clients uses singing baths as an addition to mental healing and meditation to help manage her daily stress. Now she’s hosting this wonderful singing bath in a salt cave in an effort to help others.

Please Join Me for a Singing Bowl Sound Bath
When: September 13, 2026 @ 4:00 pm for approximately 1 hour
Where: Salt Cave at Eforea Spa at Embassy Suites
Brooks City Base 7610 South New Braunfels 78235

Cost: $40 Cash Only
RSVP: [email protected]
Notes: Seating is limited to 10 Zero Gravity Chairs, additional room in the salt cave for yoga mats. Temp is kept at 68 degrees, please dress accordingly. Blankets available


PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE YOU FEEL WOULD ENJOY

Patient had multiple surgeries due to childhood accident. Skin grafts were needed last October to be able to replace knee in April ‘26.
Dolphin Neurostim, Human TECAR, cupping, and our hands-on FAST technique are being used to treat the scar tissue adherence that restricts proper knee flexion - all WITHOUT INCREASING PAIN to the patient!!
Video shows result of 3 TECAR sessions over 2 months. Patient is making a wonderful recovery and adds more ROM/flexion with each appointment while remaining passive on the table (no “cranking”)! Ortho and PT are astonished by the quick results!
FAST results are our specialty!!!
First 3 photos are BEFORE Tecar treatments.

SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE ranges from $150-$200, but we offer it for $75 to treat a single area.
Here at FAST Wellness Soft Tissue Center, we strive to advance our knowledge with material that will help our clients with pain, scar tissue, tears, sprains, surgeries, and life’s soft tissue injuries. We are constantly learning and understanding the complexity of our Fascia, and we are excited to introduce the newest form of Thermogenesis technology in the Human Tecar.

Tecar Therapy (Transference Energy Capacitive and Resistive) is a non-invasive treatment that uses RadioFrequency (RF) energy to stimulate tissue from the inside out. By generating deep heat, it increases blood flow, reduces muscle spasms, and accelerates natural healing and tissue repair.
How It Works: The therapy operates through two main modes to target different layers of the body: Capacitive Mode: Targets superficial tissues like skin and muscles to improve circulation and reduce tension.Resistive Mode: Focuses on deeper structures such as tendons, joints, and deep spinal muscles to stimulate tissue repair and reduce chronic inflammation. Key BenefitsFaster Recovery: Increases oxygen and nutrition uptake to revitalize tissue.Comfortable: Treatments feel similar to a deep massage with a pleasant, warm sensation. Pain Relief: Alleviates pain by reducing inflammation and promoting the release of endorphins.

This particular client tore his Supraspinatus tendon, 70%, and instead of surgery he and his physician have decided to do a steroid injection and Physical Therapy. Meanwhile, I continue to treat his muscle and tendon area with both the Dolphin Neurostimulator and vacuum cupping. Within two strokes along his Supraspinatus muscle, he lit up like a Christmas tree!! PT starts in August.

Mindi Deschenes LMT has immediate openings this week of April 7-10. Enjoy 10% off of your session + our amazing modality- TECAR!!. The suggested TECAR price is ($150-200) per session. This add-on will be $62.50 ---this week only!! 😲😲😲🤩🎉💆‍♀️
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Fascia can be a robust, yet confusing subject! Here's a great read to better understand what we do!

I once heard a doctor refer to fascia as nothing more than packing peanuts, a kind of filler material with little significance beyond holding things in place. For a long time, that belief shaped how fascia was taught and understood. It was treated as background material, passive and forgettable. Yet science, when given the chance to look closely, has a way of revealing quiet miracles hiding in plain sight.

As imaging technology improved and researchers began to study fascia in greater detail, an entirely different picture emerged. Through the work of scientists such as Robert Schleip, Carla Stecco, Helene Langevin, and others, fascia revealed itself not as inert wrapping, but as living, responsive tissue deeply integrated with the nervous system. Under the microscope, fascia appeared less like packing material and more like a finely tuned communication network. In some regions, it was found to be even more richly innervated than the muscle itself, filled with sensory nerve endings constantly reporting back to the brain.

Rather than sitting neatly around muscles, fascia behaves more like a three-dimensional spiderweb or a continuous fabric woven throughout the body. Tug on one corner, and the tension is felt elsewhere. Stretch one area and the entire system responds. Fascia blends into muscle fibers, connects across joints, and wraps organs, transmitting force, sensation, and information in every direction. It senses pressure, stretch, and movement the way a musical instrument senses vibration, responding instantly to changes in tone and tension.

This understanding transformed how we view the mind–body connection. Fascia does not simply move the body; it informs it. When emotional stress or trauma occurs, fascia adapts alongside the nervous system. Like a seatbelt locking during sudden braking, it tightens to protect. Like fabric repeatedly folded the same way, it begins to hold familiar creases. These changes are intelligent, protective responses shaped by survival, even when they persist long after the original danger has passed.

Research helped clarify why this happens. Helene Langevin demonstrated that fascia responds to mechanical input and hydration, showing that gentle, sustained touch can influence its structure, much like warm wax can then be reshaped. Carla Stecco’s anatomical mapping revealed the continuity and precision of fascial planes, helping us understand why pain often follows predictable pathways rather than remaining in a single isolated spot. Robert Schleip’s work highlighted fascia’s role as a sensory organ, deeply involved in proprioception and autonomic regulation, explaining why changes in fascia can influence how safe, grounded, or connected a person feels.

Within the Body Artisan approach, this science feels less mechanical and more poetic. Working with fascia is like learning the language of a living landscape. Touch becomes a conversation rather than a command. Pressure is an invitation, not a demand. When safety is present, fascia responds the way frozen ground responds to spring, slowly thawing, rehydrating, and allowing movement where there was once rigidity. Breath deepens, awareness settles, and patterns that felt permanent begin to loosen.

Seeing fascia for what it truly is invites both humility and wonder. The body is not a machine padded with filler. It is a living system of extraordinary intelligence, where structure, sensation, and emotion are woven together like threads in a tapestry. Fascia is one of the primary fibers holding that tapestry intact, carrying both strength and memory.

When we honor this, healing shifts from fixing something broken to supporting something profoundly wise. Given the right conditions, the body does not need to be forced to change. It already knows how to soften, adapt, and return toward balance. Our role is to listen, to support, and to trust the design that has been there all along.

Here's a great write up explaining trigger points and how fascia care can help!

Today I want to bring you into the quiet interior world of the body, a place where science and sensation coexist, and where even the smallest structures hold stories. Before we explore the deeper art of myofascial trigger point therapy in my next post, I want to lay a foundation that feels both beautiful and true.

Many bodyworkers were never entirely taught the science behind trigger points, and many clients know them only as “knots.” But the truth is far more elegant, far more human, and far more poetic than that. When we understand them correctly, the body's whole landscape begins to make sense.

Inside every muscle are tiny contractile threads called sarcomeres. I often imagine them as thousands of delicate accordion folds lined up end to end, expanding and contracting in a rhythm that mirrors breath. In a healthy state, these folds open and close with ease, like the petals of a flower responding to light. But life doesn’t always keep its softness. A moment of stress, a pattern of overuse, a season of guarding, or the quiet residue of something emotionally overwhelming can cause a cluster of these little folds to clamp down and refuse to release. They hold tight, far tighter than the body ever intended. This is the beginning of a trigger point, a small place in the body's fabric where movement stops, and holding begins.

When these sarcomeres remain contracted, blood flow cannot fully enter the area. The tissue becomes a tiny pocket of drought. The body calls this ischemia, but you can imagine it as a river narrowing until only a trickle can pass through. Without fresh blood, oxygen cannot arrive, nourishment cannot circulate, and the natural byproducts of muscle activity begin to collect instead of being washed away.

These metabolites, harmless in motion, become irritating when trapped. They gather like stagnant water behind a dam, slowly altering the tissue's chemistry until the nerves around them begin to react. This is why a trigger point aches, burns, radiates, or surprises us with sharpness. It is not just tension; it is nature trying to move again.

Fascia, the body’s great communicator, becomes part of this story too. Because fascia is one continuous web, a single small obstruction can create distant echoes. A trigger point in the neck might send pain into the jaw or temple. A trigger point in the glute might imitate sciatica. A point in the diaphragm might reshape breath and ripple into the lower back. These are not accidents. These are the fascial lines speaking their language, sending signals through the body’s interconnected map. What happens in one place is felt everywhere.

And hidden beneath all of this is something more subtle, something more tender. Trigger points often form not only from physical strain but also from emotional tightening. The jaw clenches around unspoken words. The diaphragm holds back tears. The belly tightens around fear. The hips brace for imagined impact. Over time, these emotional reflexes crystallize into physical ones. The body remembers its history in the places where it stops moving.

This is why understanding trigger points is so important. They are not random knots; they are small dams in a river that longs to flow. When we release a trigger point, we are not just softening tension; we are restoring circulation to a starved pocket of tissue. We are dissolving chemical stagnation. We are freeing a section of fascia so the whole body can move with more grace. We are interrupting a protective pattern the nervous system has been holding onto, sometimes for years.

In the next post, we will step into the artistry of how I approach myofascial trigger point work, the breaking of the dam, and the waves of release that can change an entire region of the body. For now, let this be your gateway.

Trigger points are small, but the story they tell is vast. And once you understand them, you begin to understand the deep intelligence of the body that carries them.

It is with a heavy heart that I share some personal news. After much thought, I've made the difficult decision to step away from my work at FAST Wellness, at least for now. This profession has been such a blessing in my life, and I have truly loved every moment of working with each of you, helping provide the relief and care you deserve.

Unfortunately, due to ongoing lower back issues, I need to take time to focus on healing myself and preserving my own quality of life. My last day with FAST Wellness will be October 9th. Until then, I will be available on a limited basis if you would like to schedule a final session with me. More than anything, I would love the chance to say see you later, not goodbye.

I cannot express enough gratitude for the opportunity to work alongside such an amazing team of women, especially my dear friend and mentor, Mindi. Please know that I am leaving you in excellent hands with Mindi and Belnn , who will continue to provide the same outstanding care and compassion you've come to expect.

This is not easy for me, because I truly love what I do and the relationships I've built at FAST Wellness. I hope this is not a permanent goodbye, but rather just a pause while I take the necessary steps to heal.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to be a part of your wellness journey.

With love and gratitude,

Brandee Gurnot