07/01/2024
Fascinating Fascia!!
🧬 The Fascial System surrounds, infuses with, and has the potential to influence every muscle, nerve, bone, blood vessel, organ, system and cell of the body. At the same time the fascia is also connecting and protecting all of these parts.
🧬 The fascial system is a three dimensional web of connective tissue, is alive and changing according to the body’s demands. It is a network of information exchange, influencing and influenced by every cell, structure and system in the body.
🧬 In the past for many years, anatomists cut the fascia tissue off, threw it away and thought nothing of it's purpos️e 🤦
🧬 Robert Schleip has estimated that an adult’s fascia contains approximately 250 million nerve endings, similar to, or slightly more than the skin. For this reason, some researchers say that fascia should be considered a new organ, one that is specialised for communication about the body’s internal state.
🧬 Fascial tissue has 10 times as many sensory receptors as muscles. This means your senses of proprioception and kinesthesia are more related to the function of the fascia than to the muscles.
🧬 The superficial fascia contains nerves that specialise in sensing pressure, temperature and movement. Deep fascia is involved in the body’s sense of its position in space, and the sensing of pain.
🧬 Physical & emotional trauma, structural imbalances and leg length differences all create fascial strain.
Due to the continuity of the fascia, tension in one area of the body will affect the entire fascial system.
🧬 Fascia holds onto emotional memory. Our emotional holding patterns can affect our fascia. Emotions and tension cause us to hold our bodies in certain ways. This can cause a variety of fascia responses, including pain and dysfunction.
🧬 Due to fascias inseparable connections between muscles, it is responsible for our smooth movements.
We take our fascia for granted, like air and gravity, but fascia is crucial to our sensory experience of the world and is important in our body's elasticity and flexibility.
Fascia reminds us that everything is connected 💫