Sheila, thanks for your question on cellular consciousness from a fascial perspective.
As you know much of what we learned as therapists to be proven as fact has been turned upside down by the “new science”.
I would like to share my view gleaned from years of experience and intuitive guidance that is now being verified by new scientific discoveries.
The fluid component of fascia (the ground substance) is the environment of every cell of our body. New research has now clearly demonstrated that there is a micro-fascial system within every cell of our body. The fascial system is a fiber-optic system with fluid surrounding and within the hollow core of the micro-tubules transmitting vibrating messages of light, sound pressure and motion instantaneously to the trillions of cells that comprise our mind/body.
As an experienced therapist, Sheila, would you share what you were taught in school about the fascial system versus what you have come to know with your Myofascial Release experience?
Then I will share the new information on cellular shape and it’s important effect upon the bio-chemistry and hormonal flow of our body.
Thanks,
John
John F. Barnes, P.T., LMT
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Sheila Walker // Feb 3rd 2008 at 7:27 am
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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Bob Mollica // Apr 4th 2008 at 9:45 am
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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