John,
I have been looking for the article on the cells function in response to abnormal tensions applied to its membranes. Is this what you are referring to?
I thank you in advance for your reply.
Bob Mollica PT

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Basically, John, we were taught the fascial system was connective tissue which functioned to support and separate other tissues in the body. “It is the layer which surrounds a muscle…” and then we went on to spend the vast majority of our academic education studying those ‘more important’ structures. There was an implied priority of significance to each system we studied… the fascial system, being mostly ignored, was assumed to be very low in relevance to influencing a state of good or poor health.

As I have experienced with Myofascial Release, unlike this view of a compartmentalized human being, our interconnecting network of fascial tissues extends far beyond the ’superficial, deep’ layering I was taught. What I have witnessed is the incredible influence of this three-dimensional, interweaving of the human being via the fascial system from the cellular level. And, how we are capable of tremendous self healing when allowed to naturally express and release restrictions within this massive, fluid superconductor of bioenergy, flowing within the fascial system… housing, forming and informing all other systems of the body.

It took me a while to fully absorb something you taught me early on in my MFR education. You said… our assumptions of the role and function of the fascial system within the human body were based on observations made when studying cadavers. In living tissue… there is a flow of bioenergy. We call this, life. In dead tissue, that flow has stopped. That changes things, doesn’t it!

Thanks John,
Sheila

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