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Originally Posted by abaya
Once again, thanks much. I'll take all this info to the PT next week (I just made an appointment for Monday, hooray!).
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I'll be interested to hear what you learn from that appointment; please post back.
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But man, a couple of YEARS for the primary injury to heal?... wow. I've been trying to keep moving, walking, even running while I've had this back pain, keeping up some of my normal lifestyle (I'm not an athlete, just trying to stay in shape and do some 5K/10K runs) but now I'm wondering if I should even be doing that. I love hiking, but when I'm climbing stairs, I get that splinting feeling again (assuming that's the issue here)... so I wonder if I'll have to give it up for a while.  Is there any way of finding out what the primary injury is, if not through massage then perhaps with an MRI?... or is that unnecessary. Does massage (and/or PT) help to prevent the adhesions?
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I can't say how long an injury takes to heal; reinjuring it is certainly a possibility.
Cross Fiber Friction is a technique where you deeply rub against the direction of the muscle fibers, which spreads the fibers apart and may cause the adhesions (aka scar tissue) to break. Then you make sure to use the muscles so that the new scar tissue that is created is "mobile", it doesn't interfere as much with the proper motion of the muscle.