The world of fascial research is continually flowing and changing, a bit like fascia itself. In doing so it is challenging previously held ideas about the nature of fascia and how this relates to chronic pain. Thixotropy can't explain it all One concept that no longer...
Background The fascia research team at the University of Padua in Italy led by Dr Carola Stecco are at the cutting edge of anatomical understanding of the intricacies of the fascial system In the body. Dr Stecco, who once described her initial research as being locked...
How inflammation in fascia contributes to your pain Pain is a necessary and natural response to something potentially damaging. The problems arise when the pain response gets corrupted and turns into an unwanted chronic situation. For many of us our pain first happens...
Fascia has long been the forgotten tissue in the body, discarded by medical students as the 'white stuff' so they can get to the more interesting structures underneath such as muscles and bones. This disregard for fascia has arisen from a lack of understanding of the...
I recently joined 800 other therapists and scientific researchers from universities and medical schools around the world for the third triennial Fascia Congress in Vancouver, Canada 28-30 March 2012. The purpose of the congress was to enable the new generation of...
For hundreds of years anatomists and artists have dissected dead bodies to gain a better understanding of how living ones work. In this 21st century the opportunity to study dead bodies is usually reserved for the medical researchers, but individuals are free to leave...
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