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What is a body, really?
Many of us are surely asked often, sometimes daily, "How are you?". The answer often comes automatically without a second thought: "Fine, thanks." But what does it really mean to…
New research suggests fascia should be recognized as its own anatomical system
A new study published in the Journal of Anatomy, led by Professor Carla Stecco, proposes that fascia should be recognized as its own anatomical system. The research identifies fou…
Fascia and The Living Body
“Fascia and the Living Body” is a document about the scientific understanding of the body as a living whole.
Is the body smarter than a supercomputer?
All living beings require water, that’s something we all know. Water is so common and obvious to us that it has become uninteresting, almost too simple to study. We think we know…
Therefore, the researchers believe that the nervous system resides in Fascia
The fascial network exists in various compositions, structures, and configurations throughout the entire body and is a crucial and essential part of the body’s function…
Fascia is nothing new!
There is a lot of talk about Fascia now, but Fascia is not new. Over the past 10-20 years, Fascia research has had a huge upswing and has also become more interdisciplinary.
Guimberteau
Surgeon Jean Claude Guimberteau has spent 15 years conducting over 1,200 examinations of Fascia, which he filmed with an endoscope in vivo (in a living subject)
Fascia is the largest organ in the body
Fascia or interstitium? Two different terms for the body’s “newly discovered” largest organ.
Fascial Net Plastination Project
In January 2018, a fascinating project began: to create the world's first anatomical 3D model of the human body with a focus on fascia. The project is called the Fascial Net Plast…
Frequently Asked Questions about Fascia
90 questions and answers — written by Camilla Ranje Nordin
Fascia as a flow – a new way of explaining the body’s function
By beginning to see the body as something that is alive, and not something that is dead, we have been able to begin to notice other things.
What is fascia and in what way does fascia change the whole way of looking at the body?
Fascia is a network of connective tissue, without beginning and end, which encloses everything in the whole body, from muscles and bones, to organs and cells. But what does that m…