CONNECTIVE TISSUE & FASCIA
CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
As the term suggests, it is a tissue that connects cells to one another. Two things play an important role in this:
Fibers are found in tendons and ligaments in particular. These are extremely resilient to tension and more or less elastic depending on the fiber type. They provide stability in the body.
Sie werden von den „Faserzellen“ den sogenannten Fibroblasten gebildet.
The ground substance consists of freely floating sugar-protein compounds, so-called proteoglycans or proteoglycan aggregates, i.e. a long chain of these.
They are negatively charged and can bind large amounts of water via hydrogen bonds. They are, so to speak, the oil in the engine and ensure low frictional resistance when different structures slide against one another.
They are made from a type of cell that has only recently been discovered by Dr. Carla Stecco the fascial cell or fasciacytes formed.
FASCIA
Der Begriff ist heutzutage in aller Munde. Viele Reden darüber, aber jemand weiß, was es wirklich ist.
Fascia describe a complex interconnected networkthat spins out of the connective tissue fibers. For example, if you were to remove all tissue, i.e. blood vessels, muscles, bones, skin, nerves, from the body, you could still recognize every structure of the body through the fascial system. After all, each cell is connected to another via the connective tissue. This system is more pronounced in places where large forces are at work. The example is easy to see looking at band structures, such as the ligaments of the ankle. But also so-called tendon sheeths belong to the fascia.
NEW PERSPECTIVES
In order to understand what this fascial system is, we have to say goodbye to some assumptions.
- We Are Our Body
Not: We have a body, but: We are our body. And physically and emotionally. These things are inextricably linked.
We need to get rid of the idea of seeing the body as one and the mind, our consciousness, as another. - The anatomy, as we thought, doesn't exist
Anatomy relies on dissecting dead tissue and conceptualizing it for students. So what is in the textbooks is always what the anatomist leaves behind. What was cut is obviously not worth mentioning and therefore doesn't exist.
Anatomy in a living individual is different than dead. It must be viewed in context and in its function and not in its structure.
EXKURS
French hand surgeon Jean-Claude Guimberteau was the first to depict this complex network using a hand tendon sheath. He noticed that what he saw did not correspond in the slightest to how anatomy books depict tendon sheaths.
When he zoomed in close enough, he saw many millions of small dynamic bubbles that formed and disappeared with movement. He named his discovery that Multimicrovacuolar Collagen Dynamic Absorption System , so it's MCDAS.
OPERATIONEN
If this complex network is destroyed, for example by a surgical intervention, the function at this point is permanently impaired. The scientist Sergio Gracovetski explained at a fascia congress in Montreal: „If the fascia is damaged, it can not be rehabilitated“. What he means by this is that the resulting scar tissue cannot take over the function of the MCDAS. Therefore, surgical interventions should be reduced to a necessary minimum.
Aufgabe der kräftigen Faszien ist es vor allem Kräfte aufzunehmen und verteilen. They serve, in contrast to the bones, which are a pressure element in the body tension element.
Tendon sheaths in contrast have the task of reducing friction when different tissues ohne Kontinuitätsverlust, möglichst reibungsarm, without loss of continuity..
Das Zusammenspiel von Druck- und Spannungselementen hatte Richard Buckminster Fuller unter dem Begriff „Tensegrity“ beschrieben.
MYSTIRIOUS WORLD UNDER THE SKIN
If you would like to learn more about the system that has fundamentally changed our understanding of the functions of our body in recent years, then this report will certainly be of interest to you. Then you will understand why movement must always be an essential part of therapy if there is to be a positive result at the end.
FASZIENTRAINING
Fascia can of course be trained, whether you need a "Black Roll" for this, there are fairly clear statements from research. Above all, aktivity is the central figure here.
When it comes to fascia training, it is important to know exactly what you want to train, because different parts (depending on their molecular composition) require different stimuli.
In principle, however, it can be said that fascia training is almost always a very dynamic training one.
Parameter
short-term high-dose loads
Regeneration approx. 48 hours
OFFER MANY VARIATIONS
Changes morphologically detectable after about 12 weeks
Elastic, springy movements: playful variations with a high level of awareness
Full Range Of Motion Training (FROMT)
You can find out what this can look like in practice in my practice
