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Healthy Fascia Provides Protection: Coping with Injurious Falls
Healthy Fascia Provides Protection Fascia, the body’s connective tissue network, plays a crucial role in protection, supporting agile movements, and providing resilience and cushioning to bodily structures. Healthy fascia is key to maintaining fluidity and elasticity in movements, while its unique properties, like crimping and ground substance composition, contribute significantly to its protective functions. Healthy…
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The Sensory Power of Fascia: A Paradigm Shift in Healthcare
The Sensory Power of Fascia In recent years, there has been a remarkable shift in our understanding of the human body’s sensory system, particularly regarding the fascia. Once considered primarily a structural support system, fascia is now recognized as our richest sensory structure. The sensory power of fascia surpasses even our visual system in terms…
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Caring for Our Body’s Internal Environment: The Fascia
Considering Our Internal Environment We know that our physical environment at home and at work can profoundly affect our ability to function well. Many of us spend a lot of time and money to create environments that make us comfortable and happy. Occupational therapy professionals specialize in helping clients set up their environment to support…
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What is a retinaculum? How Our Richest Sensory Structure Keeps Us Safe.
Hey Google…. What is a retinaculum? A retinaculum refers to any region on the body in which tendon groups from different muscles pass under one connective tissue band. These connective tissue bands act like stabilizers for tendons, helping to keep them in place. While this is true and exactly what I learned in occupational therapy…
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The Busy Little Fibroblasts: How Fascia is Formed
“Stop making that face or it will freeze like that!“ I don’t know if your grandma ever said that to you, but mine did. I knew she was just trying to scare me, but she was actually kind of right! What are Fibroblasts? Fibroblasts, the most abundant cells in the fascial system, play a crucial…