Questions & answers

Short, straight answers to the most common questions about fascia.

• Where does fascia originate from?Fascia have no beginning and no ending. If you mean originate in an embryologic sense, it originate from the mesoderm, like other connective tissue, muscles, bones etc (even if som
• Where fascia is found?It is found everywhere in the body, in different shapes. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is creating an environment for the whole body systems functioning.
• Where is fascia in the body?It is found everywhere in the body, in different shapes. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is creating an environment for the whole body systems functioning.
• Where is fascia lata located?It is the deep fascia of the thigh. It is continuously connected to the other fasciae and there are no boundaries.
• Where is fascia located?It is found everywhere in the body, in different shapes. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is creating an environment for the whole body systems functioning.
• Where is fascia on foot?You have fascia of different composition in the whole foot. There are a more dense and stronger fascia, deep fascia, under the foot, this is the plantar fascia, and then at the upp
• Where is fascia transversalis?Can you mean fascia of the transversus abdominis muscle? Then it is located in the abdomen.
• Where the fascia is the thickest?It is thickest where it needs more stability, thoracolumbar fascia.
• Which is deep fascia?Deep fascia refers to all well-organized, dense, fibrous layers that interact with the muscles. Deep fasciae (plural) connect different parts of the musculoskeletal system and tran
• Which is deeper, fascia or muscle?Fascia is both more superficial and more deep than muscle. You always have a fascial layer closest to the bone tissue thus, between the deepest muscles and the bone.
• Who can fix fascia?Fascial system repair itself if you give the conditions but you may need help of a skilled fascia therapist, osteopath etc, to recreate the body balance to give the body full oppor
• Who repairs fascia?Fascial system repair itself if you give the conditions but you may need help of a skilled fascia therapist, osteopath etc, to recreate the body balance to give the body full oppor
• Who treats fascia?A skilled fascia therapist, osteopath or another therapist who focus on fascia. There are a lot of manipulation treatments which release the fascia, collagen fibers and increase th
• Why does fascia get tight?Fascia is very adaptable and remodels on account to the loads to which it is exposed. If you overload some part of the body, for too long, it have to strengthen. Then it get tighte
• Why does fascia hurt?There are a lot of nerve receptors which can signaling pain in the fascia. If the fascia gets stiff, due to injury, overwork, sedentary, lifestyle, diet and so on, the receptors ma
• Why does fascia matter?Because fascia gives structure and stability to the whole body. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is critical for transports of nutrients, waists, ions and other
• Why does fascia tighten?Fascia is very adaptable and remodels on account to the loads to which it is exposed. If you overload some part of the body, for too long, it has to strengthen. Then it gets tighte
• Why does my doctor not talk about Fascia?There is still not any new definition of “fascia” that is accepted by all researchers. Anatomists generically relate this term to sheets, sheaths and other dissectible and visible
• Why is Fascia not a well established term?Now we know that fascia is a very heterogenous and “active” tissue, unlike the widespread 20th-century characterization as a relatively undifferentiated and passive part of the bod
• Why is deep fascia absent in abdomen?There are three layers of deep fascia in the abdomen; superficial, middle and deep lamina of the deep fascia of the trunk. All the muscles have deep fascia around and inside it.
• Why is deep fascia absent in face?There are four layers of deep fascia of the face; Parotid-masseteric fascia, Pterygold fascia, Tenon’s fascia, Buccopharyngeal fascia.
• Why is fascia good?Because fascia gives structure and stability to the whole body. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is critical for transports of nutrients, waists, ions and other
• Why is fascia important?Because fascia gives structure and stability to the whole body. It surrounds and permeates every organ and cell and is critical for transports of nutrients, waists, ions and other
• Why is fascia tight?Fascia is very adaptable and remodels on account to the loads to which the tissue is exposed. If you overload some part of the body, for too long, it has to strengthen. Then it get
• Why is it important to release fascia?If it is too stiff and tight you have a higher pressure in the tissue. The flow of molecules between cells will stop and get slower, vascularisation of blood and lymph will be impe
• Why is there not more research about fascia?For the past 20 years there have been an explosion of fascia research with evolving research technologies. Fascia is a heterogenous tissue, and over the last four centuries it has
• Will fascia grow back?Yes, If you get hurt the fascial system will heal itself if you give the conditions to it.
• Will plantar fascia go away?The plantar fascia will not go away because it is important for the function of the feet and the body balance. The plantar fascia can be inflamed, called plantar fasciitis, and thi
• Will torn plantar fascia ever heel?The plantar fascia can be inflamed, called plantar fasciitis, and this is very painful. This may be caused by imbalance and compensations all the way up to the pelvis. You can trea

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