Traditional anatomical education focuses on the structural and mechanical understanding of individualized human structures, such as muscles, ligaments, nerves, and organs. While anatomy textbooks list that we have roughly six-hundred muscles, it is more accurate to say that we have one muscle and six-hundred pockets of fascial webbing. Fascia is a densely woven system in the body, resembling a spider’s web, that covers every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ. It should be noted that these fascial coverings are not separate entities. They are part of one continuous structure that wraps us from head to toe without interruption. In this way, you can see that each part of the body is connected to every other part by the fascia, like a gigantic spider’s web. However, this limited description of fascia only encapsulates its function from a morphological tissue and structure perspective. In 2007 at the International Fascia Research Congress, Robert Schleip and Thomas Findley proposed a much mor…
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