Fascia

Fascia is a broad term for the extracellular matrix of fibers, "glue" and water surrounding all your cells, and wrapping like plastic wrap around muscle fibers and muscles, organs, bones, blood vessels and nerves -- and finally as a second skin around your entire body.

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

Fascia is not just a passive wrapping material, but a live, biological fabric, which directs the traffic of forces around the body, and responds and remodels itself as forces change.

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

See here for the full interview with Tom Myers: Fascia, Yoga and the Medicine of the Future

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

The Fascia Research Congress 2012 will be held in Vancouver in March.

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

"Fascia is like the Cinderella tissues of the body," says Tom Myers, a leading thinker in integrative anatomy and author of Anatomy Trains.

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

In 2007, fascial researchers and practitioners banded together to initiate the biennial Fascia Research Congress, where researchers and health practitioners can share new discoveries.

Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Staying Fit: Yoga, Rolfing and the Elusive Cinderella Tissues Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2012

Fascia might be a physical expression of what the Chinese callmeridians, often described as energy channels.

Lee Schneider: Acupuncture: What Is it and Why Does it Work? Lee Schneider 2010

~ The Fascia and Muscle Link -- "Those aches and pains, that annoying inflexibility, that injury that flares up whenever you try to deadlift a number that's higher than your IQ — all of it could be the result of tight or inflamed fascia."

Speedlinking 11/20/07 William Harryman 2007

Fascia: a transverse band or broad line; it is common when it crosses both wings or wing covers.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

The Superficial Fascia of the neck is a thin lamina investing the Platysma, and is hardly demonstrable as a separate membrane.

IV. Myology. 5. The Fasciæ and Muscles of the Anterolateral Region of the Neck. a. The Superficial Cervical Muscle 1918