Newly identified telocytes, which help repair tissue, may respond to manual therapies, suggesting another mechanism for therapeutic touch.
The mechanotransduction features of !broblasts are well established, with the potential for different degrees, durations frequency and direction of biomechanical loading (as in myofascial release) and unloading (as in counterstrain), having been shown, in in-vitro studies, to have predictable effects on tissue remodelling and inflammatory processes (as examples) (Zein-Hamoud and Standley, 2015). Mechanosensitivity has now also been identi!ed as a feature of telocytes - a highly versatile, newly identi!ed, different category of connective tissue cell, that is also active in repair and regeneration, recently described and characterized by Popescu et al. (2011), in Bucharest, Romania. (Cretoiu, 2016). The question therefore arises as to how, and to what degree, appropriately applied biomechanical load, associated with the therapeutic use of movement and manual treatment, may be capable of positively in"uencing these connective tissue cells in their known homeostatic roles?
The first episode of the English podcast “The Fascia Guide”. The Fascia Guide is a podcast about the living body, about new research and a new perspective on health, pain and what…
The episode was first published on the Swedish podcast Fasciaguiden on June 4, 2025. In this unique episode, we meet Professor Gerald Pollack — one of the world’s most influential…