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WHAT IS FASCIA?

Simply put, fascia is the cling-wrap that holds everything together. Made up of sticky, fibrous, and wet proteins (mainly collagen and elastin), it is responsible for our movement, stability, and plays an integral role in injury and dysfunction recovery.

 

 1.    Fascia is Everywhere!

Surrounding each muscle, binding muscles to each other, joining muscle and skin, creating connections in seemingly separate body regions

Fascia is the “skeleton” the connects your whole musculoskeletal system.

 2.    There are 3 layers

–       Superficial (blends with the dermis - which is a deep layer of skin)

–       Deep (covers muscles, bones nerves and blood vessels)

–       Visceral (wraps the organs with layers of connective e tissue)

​3.    Is fascia the richest sensory organ in the body?

We have ten times more proprioceptors (the feelers that communicate with our brain) in fascia than we do in muscle?

Research shows that our fascial network may even rival the retina (in our eye), which insofar has been considered our richest sensory organ!

When our fascia is sticky we not only are more prone to injury, but our body awareness becomes limited.