So last week we saw what happens at the level of the collagen in the perimysium (the deep fascial covering around the outside of muscles, encapsulating them like cling film) when we don’t move, and all at breathtaking speed! But there’s another aspect which must be taken into consideration, and that’s the reaction of hyaluronan…
To borrow from my recent presentation at the Australian Fascia Symposium, we all know we need to move, but how much is too much and how much is too little? Leon Chaitow (2012) described the basis of musculoskeletal dysfunction as either/or a combination of “overuse, misuse, disuse or abuse”, so today we’re going to focus…
We learned last week that scarring is an almost inevitable fact of life. Fortunately for many of us, the wound is superficial and as such so is the scar. But what if we have invasive surgery – for example, mastectomy with axillary webbing, or cording as it is otherwise known – a burn, a serious…
Scar tissue has long been a source of fascination to me, and to many others it seems! Often in fresh-tissue dissections, scars have captured my imagination for their capacity to influence mobility and range of motion both locally and in far remote areas, even if they look innocuous enough on the surface of the skin.…
PROPRIOCEPTION & INTEROCEPTION – Traditionally within the human experience, we’ve always referred to our having 5 senses – sight, hearing, touch (our favourite, perhaps?), taste and smell. But what if I was to tell you that the story doesn’t end there?! Proprioception has long been referred to as “our true sixth sense”, and describes “our…
FASCIA AS A COMMUNICATOR The fact that the simplest of organisms have for millennia led relatively sophisticated lives – hunting prey, reproducing and avoiding predators – without a nervous system has long been the subject of fascination. Oschman (2012) refers to fascia as a body-wide communication system, helping to fill in some of the knowledge…
FASCIA AND THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM In the current climate of a world pandemic, it’s crucial that we understand as individuals what we can do to optimize our health, whether we come into contact with COVID-19 or not. For the purposes of detoxification and optimal health, the fascia is to the lymphatics what the heart is…
Some very interesting and noteworthy points come up in this commentary.