Grounded Wellness Care
Grounded Wellness Care, LLC is a Marine Corps veteran owned and operated business. I offer Fascial Counterstrain (FCS) as a health and wellness specialty service to the central Pennsylvania region to give you relief from your most complex issues of the human body. Fascial Counterstrain can have highly impactful results for people enduring symptoms and dysfunctions across every body system. We focus on putting the body in a highly specific direction of ease to remove the muscle guarding reflexes that trap your body in a pain loop. Through a careful workflow of analysis, layer by layer we find the tension that is causing dysfunction and we restore balance to the body. The process is like carefully laying strong foundation blocks for your future.
Though the concept has been around for decades starting back with Strain-Counterstrain technique of the 1990’s, it has been refined to become the life changing specialty it now is.
Fascial Counterstrain is becoming the new “go to” for health and wellness.
Gentle care, non-invasive, doesn’t require medications to be successful.
Together, we are “Finding the Cause. Restoring the Balance.”
What is Fascial Counterstrain?
Fascial Counterstrain (FCS) is a gentle, non-invasive technique that uses specific positioning of the body to decompress tension in the connective tissue called fascia. It is a multisystem evaluation and treatment method that reduces inflammation and improves circulation, signaling to the system targeted that it does not have to guard anymore and can continue it’s healing process.
It’s effective in relieving acute and chronic pain or dysfunction without the use of medication. If you are familiar with the Dr. Jones method of Strain-Counterstrain from the 1990’s, it is the continuation and development of his good work by Dr. Brian Tuckey and his colleagues (Tuckey B, 2025).
For a thorough description, case study, and videos documenting the technique, visit the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine online to read Dr. Tuckey’s ‘Fascial Counterstrain: A Methodological Advancement in Indirect Osteopathic Manipulation’.
Patients and practitioner’s may visit the official counterstrain website directly; Practitioners click HERE, Patients click HERE.
FCS does NOT replace the necessity for consulting with your physician for healthcare. FCS falls into Kelly’s scope of practice as a Licensed Massage Therapist as she is specifically positioning the soft tissue to indirectly relax fascia. Please note, she is not directly treating organs or systems of the body.
Common Conditions we help
This is not a complete list, however, for reference of how vastly this technique can be used, these are some conditions and symptoms that the technique have been known to help thus far.
-PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, “stuck in fight-or-flight” constantly
-Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Fibromyalgia
-Post-concussion syndrome, Chronic whiplash, Brain fog, migraines
-POTS, Cardiopulmonary dysfunction, dysautonomia
-TMJ (lock jaw), tension headaches, Neck pain
-Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (exception: not type 4 EDS, vasculature hypermobility involvement specifically)
-Muscle spasming, muscle guarding
-Long haul COVID, chronic bronchitis, asthma
-Cranial nerve issues, trigeminal neuralgia, vagus nerve issues
-Surgical Candidates: use FCS to give your doctor a “clean slate” to work in, smoother procedure and recovery:
Maximize oxygenated blood flow to the surgical site, decrease stagnant lymphatic fluid in the area,
minimize tissue tension and provide pliable, healthy tissue for your doctor to work with.
-Post operative edema, nerve entrapment, muscle guarding, tightness and painful scar tissue
-Seatbelt trauma, blunt force trauma, traumatic injury
-Lymphatic drainage issues, Edema
-Acid Reflux/GERD, difficulty swallowing, tongue tie
-Irritable Bowel, Gastrointestinal issues
-Men’s and Women’s health, PCOS, infertility
-Pelvic floor pain or dysfunction, Hemorrhoids
-Global chronic inflammation, Auto-immune disorders, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
-Frozen shoulder, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, tennis/golfer’s elbow, carpal tunnel
-Back pain, Sacroiliac pain, disc pain, sciatica, failed back surgery symptoms
-Peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage, numbness/tingling
-Knee pain, meniscus and ligamentous issues, bakers cysts
-plantar fasciitis, shin splints, tarsal tunnel, bunion pain
-Impaired vascular flow to bones, bone torsion, costochondritis
and many more conditions and symptoms…
References Cited: Tuckey B, Fascial Counterstrain: A Methodological Advancement in Indirect Osteopathic Manipulation, International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, 2025; 58 https://www.journalofosteopathicmedicine.com/article/S1746-0689(25)00045-8/fulltext.
5.0 stars by 34 patient reviews online
“Kelly is wonderful. She has worked wonders with my issues. After leaving from an appointment with her i feel so much better and have alot more mobility. I will be going back to her to let her keep me going strong.”
“In 4 months I’m almost at 100% mobility after a shoulder injury last February. Highly recommend!! It truly works!! Kelly is amazing, honest, and truly cares about you and what she does!”
“I highly recommend kelly. I did The fascial counterstrain and in 1 session it helped my sciatica and my panic attacks are much more mild, I definitely feel like a few more sessions and it will be barely noticeable throughout the day.”
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