Christopher Encina Certified Massage Therapist

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From Tom: It’s worth reviewing the Fascia Research Society’s definition of fascia (see below*), in these days when ‘fascia’ is being applied hither and thither ...to explain everything this side of black holes. The facts of fascia are enough, without making it more than it is. It is definitely worth leading the last two paragraphs of explanation as to why the fascial system has escaped our notice for so long. Fascia provides the context for movement, including the movements of physiology. I look forward to the ‘unified field theory’ of movement that will come out of all this study, by which I mean the linkage between cellular movement, tissue rhythms, organ motility, cell migrations in the embryo, autonomic movement such as peristalsis and blood flow, developmental movements in the babe, and adult sport, rehabilitative, and preventive movement programs. The fascial system provides the context for all these movements, but the specialisation of human knowledge has put these different movements in different halls within the university. Who is doing the overview and bringing these fields together? *The Fascia Research society's definition of fascia: WHAT IS FASCIA? Fascia is a term which continues to carry different meanings for various professions and perspectives. Based on the connecting nature of this tissue and the interdisciplinary range of related professionals working with it, the Fascia Nomenclature Committee (FNS) of the Fascia Research Society recommends the following two major usages: A fascia is a sheath, a sheet, or any other dissectible aggregations of connective tissue that forms beneath the skin to attach, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs. The fascial system consists of the three-dimensional continuum of soft, collagen containing, loose and dense fibrous connective tissues that permeate the body. It incorporates elements such as adipose tissue, adventitiae and neurovascular sheaths, aponeuroses, deep and superficial fasciae, epineurium, joint capsules, ligaments, membranes, meninges, myofascial expansions, periostea, retinacula, septa, tendons, visceral fasciae, and all the intramuscular and intermuscular connective tissues including endo-/peri-/epimysium. The fascial system surrounds, interweaves between, and interpenetrates all organs, muscles, bones and nerve fibers, endowing the body with a functional structure, and providing an environment that enables all body systems to operate in an integrated manner. There is a substantial body of research on connective tissue generally focused on specialized genetic and molecular aspects of the extracellular matrix. However, the study of fascia and its function as an organ of support has been largely neglected and overlooked for many years. Since fascia serves both global, generalized functions and local, specialized functions, it is a substrate that crosses several scientific, medical, and therapeutic disciplines, both in conventional and complementary/alternative modalities. Among the different kinds of tissues that are involved in musculoskeletal dynamics, fascia has received comparatively little scientific attention. Fascia, or dense fibrous connective tissues, nevertheless potentially plays a major and still poorly understood role in joint stability, in general movement coordination, as well as in back pain and many other pathologies. One reason why fascia has not received adequate scientific attention in the past decades is that this tissue is so pervasive and interconnected that it easily frustrates the common ambition of researchers to divide it into a discrete number of subunits, which can be classified and separately described. In anatomic displays, fascia is generally removed, so the viewer can see the organs nerves and vessels but fails to appreciate the fascia, which connects and separates these structures.