It has been recognized for a long time that the membranes that form the envelopes of brain, nerves, vessels, glands, visceras , and their fibres, and even the skin of the body, are in general, the production of connective tissue. However, it does not appear that any one has seen in has yet perceived that connective tissue is the general matrix of all organization, and that without this tissue no living body would be able to exist.
FASCIA: What is it, what it does, why is it important?
Is Fascia the same that connective Tissue?
All fascia is connective Tissue, but not all connective tissue is fascia. Connective tissue includes: ligaments, tendons, cartilage, joints as a generalization. Attach, enclose and separate muscles and every body's organ. In general fascia is formed by Protein and water.
fascia has collagen ( shape), elastine (felxibility), fibroblasts (shape),
What is Connective tissue: specialized organ system that permeates the whole body. Tendons, ligaments, cartilages, joints.
Fascia is the soft tissue component of the connective tissue that run through the whole body as a covering and connecting network. It gives form and structure to our body. Something called tensegrity. The tension is one of the functions of the fascia and also keep the body's integrity and shape. If we do not have fascia we would be a sac of muscles and bones.
Fascial Tissue is the biggest organ of the body ( bigger than the skin), and our most important sensory organ. It sends signals to the brain, being a very efficient communicator not only between cells but between systems and the brain. All the body movements are codetermined by fascia , if it fails, the human body losses the ability to control the movement.
Functions of the Fascia:
-Give the body tension and structure.
-Coordination
-Propioception: which is also called body's intuition and perception. Because of fascia's nerve endings that provide information about the position of the body and their movement through pressure and touch. The fascia can be seen as an extended part of the brain and the nervous system which controls movement.
Propioception: Is the space awareness that you receive as a combination of the work of ligaments, tendons, muscles, skin, cartilages.
The numbers of sensor in the fascia exceeds by many the number of sensors in muscle, therefore fascia reports information to the Central Nervous System. fascia is the biggest organ.
-provide safety and holding to the internal organs,
Hydratation : it releases water into the body due to the activation of the hyaluronic acid: Many pains in knee, shoulder and hips come from not having enough hydration because there is not enough fascia work in these areas. The more you work the fascia the more you stimulates the production of hyaluronic acid.
Working on Fascia is important: Why do you need to exercise the fascia?
- Slow down aging.
-Avoid contractures
-Avoid degeneration
-Avoid dehydration
-Avoid Body stiffness.
-To regenerate it.
-Gain- improve propioception
-To make the muscular work safer, more elegant y more precise, more versatile,
-resilience to be still
- Improve Body flexibility a
-To improve resilience and avoid risk of damage of tendons, cartilage, muscles, ligaments.
-To release elastic energy : for example when it is necessary to jump or to run and return to the original position and shape. It has also to do with the agility to respond: propioception.
-To avoid painful friction in joints: hips, cervical, knees for example.
-Increase the efficiency of muscle work.
-Increase cardiovascular resistance.
-Shortens the recovery time after muscle training.
-Increase the body physical performance in any physical practice.
-Coordination, agility, precision improves
-Posture, body shape and alignment improves. you look taller and younger the more fascia work you do.
-Sensorial pleasure, due to the liberation of energy blocks, more hydration in the body. -Endorphins release.
-If the fascia is fit enough, you have a tone body shape and elastic mobility for a longer time.
-Consistent fascia work, allows bones, muscles and tendons assemble in alignment to adapt to the movements needed or impose upon.
What keeps the body standing is the dynamic between fascia and muscles: tonicity and body wide support network.
-Shortens the recovery time, stimulates the tissues replacement.
-Make the fascia more wave, longer and more versatile. the range of motion increases.
Fascia exercise is different to the muscle one... time, style...poses or asanas.
The replacement of fascia cells is slower, but more lasting. flexibility vs resistance and muscle endurance. While training the fascia takes longer the an muscles, the effects last longer, example@ Muscle time of training comparing. The same applies after an injury: lasting extensibility of fascia after strain or injury.
-Smooth function of movement
-Youthful inner structure of the fascia. spring, jump, adaptability, run...
-Rapid regeneration of the muscle
A healthy fascia is firm and elastic ,flexible like a bamboo. It has the tensile strength of a rope which enables springy, resilient movements like a gazelle
-Avoid painful friction in joints: hips, cervical disks , knees,
-Protects muscles form injuries
-Maintain a youthful body shape and tone.
-More efficient muscle work
-Recovery times shortens
-Movement and coordination improves: propioception
-Long term protection againstinjury, pains, and disorders.
OTHERS:
Supports and regulates wat r supply, keep the inner organs protected and safely held in the body.
We are packed, wrapped.
-Musculo esketal dynamic.
-When we stimulate the fascia, it activates collagen production leading to changes in density, shape, or fibre arrangements.
-open, tall, functional and health
-Increase the range of motion
-Reacting with assertiveness.
-It can take longer to train the fascia than the muscle but the results also last longer.l
-Mood: Connecting to our emotional body, memories and old traumas and sensation. Can open and opportunity to heal
-Telocytes: Mekanosensitive cells vital for physiological processes such as: stem cells upkeep, tissue repair and immune system. They are communicators sharing information and genetic material, intercel communication f making from fascia a body-wide cellular signalling network.
-Each fibre of all muscles owns its pliability to the fascia
Propioception and interoception
interoception: hunger, heart bit, pulsations, pain....
-Working on Fascia we are tacking the meridians,. These are the conveyors of chi which is the essential human energy.
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