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FASCIASOPHY

- PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF AN

ORGAN OF INNERNESS

WARNINGTHIS LECTURE IS ABOUT THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

NOT ABOUT RESEARCH, RESULTS OR PRACTICE

JAAP VAN DER WAL MD PhD

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS

as to

FASCIA AS ORGAN OR SYSTEM?

WARNINGTHIS LECTURE IS ABOUT THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY

NOT ABOUT RESEARCH, RESULTS OR PRACTICE


ABOUT QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERS

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MY FASCIA or My scientific journey through Fascialand


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ANATOMY (FORMS) ON THE MOVE

HOLISTORGANICIST

PHENOMENOLOGIST(morphologist)

EMBRYOLOGIST

ANATOMIST

HOLISM

and / or

DUALISM

INTREGRATIVE HOLISM

SPIRITUALISM

En-act

Imponderable

Res cogitans

Participator

MATERIALISM

Ex-act

Ponderable

Res extensa

Onlooker

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ACTION ACT

GESTURE EXPRESSION

MOTION

FORM

STRUCTURE


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ANATOMY (FORMS) ON THE MOVE

HOLISTORGANICIST

PHENOMENOLOGIST

MORPHOLOGIST

EMBRYOLOGIST

ANATOMIST

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CONNECTIVE

TISSUE IN THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

A TRANS-BORDER APPROACH OF THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF ‘PROPRIOCEPTORS’,PLACED IN THE CONTEXT OF

‘FASCIAL ANATOMY’


AMSTERDAM 2009

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL FASCIA CONGRESS

MY MAIDEN SPEECH IN THE DOMAIN OF FASCIA RESEARCH

WHYME?

CONTENT AND SECTIONS

Philosophical Introduction

Tissue, organ or system - The Body as Motion

Death of a muscle man

The holy Trinity of the locomotor apparatus †

What moves us? Locomotor Apparatus or Posturing System?

The Meso – Fascia a mesokinetic organ of innerness

ADDENDUM Triune man? - (NO) Conclusions. More questions


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ENTIRETY & ANATOMY, A CONTRADICTIO?...


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Wer will was Lebendiges erkennen und beschreiben, sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben,

dann hat er die Teile in der Hand. Fehlt, leider! nur das geistige Band.

J.W. von Goethe, Faust

Those who want to study life,

first have to throw out (think away) spirit.

Next you have the parts in your hand,

what now fails, is the context of spirit (and wholeness)

FASCIA? NEVER HEARD OF…..


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Examples of nanomaterials like

fullereen or buckyballs based upon

carbon molecules

OH, IT IS ABOUT WHAT KEEPS US TOGETHER?


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ANATOMY FOR INTEGRITY AND SYNTEGRITY

THINKERS

ANATOMY DESTRUCTS MUCH MORE THAN YOU CARE FOR


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THE ANATOMICAL MIND DESTRUCTS WHOLE,

TIME. PROCESS AND CONTINUITY IN THE LIVING.

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU THINK


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“I have spent many years studying anatomy books

and have always been struck by what was missing,

and that was always the big part. The way we study

and depict anatomy sometimes tells us more about

our history and culture than it does about our body”.

Leo Peppas - www.leopeppas.com - Embodied anatomy: Global anatomy

„PROMETHEUS UNCOVERS AND EXPOSES THE IMPORTANT THINGS“

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The

‘clean’

body

The

‘perfect’

body

‘Machine’ body

“Away with dirty lab anatomy”

Aubrey de Grey,transhumanist

THIS IS HOW THEY STILL DO ITGRAY’S ANATOMY ELSEVIER 2005, THE ANATOMICAL BASIS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE



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ANATOMY ACCORDING TO GRAY’S ANATOMY

ANATOMY ACCORDING TO NETTER


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MOTION AS INTERFACE


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MIND

MOTION

MATTER

MOTION AS INTERFACE


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MIND

MOTION

MATTER

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WHAT IS IN A NAME ?

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU THINK?

TRY THIS:

The blood? – Tissue, Organ or a (blood)

system?

Bone and bones - Skeletal system?

The fascia? - The fasciae

The muscle? – The muscles

Muscle apparatus? – Muscular system?

Musculoskeletal system?

Fascial apparatus? Fascia(l) System?

Connective tissue structures?


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A DEFINITION AS A POLITICAL COMPROMISE ?


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The preliminary "Tozzi - Guimberteau" definition of Fascia

"FASCIA is a body-wide irregular, fractal and fibrillary network, whose

ubiquitous and continuous architecture extends at all levels of

hierarchical complexity in the living organism.

This global system is self-assembling, self-adapting to and shaped by

tensional loading, chemical messages and electromagnetic forces.

It constitutes the body's primary structural framework with a potential

regulatory role at multiple levels of function."

“THE FASCIAL SYSTEM”

DAY 1 TO 3 OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENTNót ‘a cell’ of ‘zygote,

but an UN-dividedhuman body!

Nó growth but subdivisionand -organization of cells

MORULA 8 cells

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DAY 1 TO 3 OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENTNót ‘a cell’ of ‘zygote,

but an UN-dividedhuman body!

Nó growth but subdivisionand -organization of cells

MORULA 8 cells

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NOT THE CELL, BUT THE ORGANISMIS THE UNIT OF LIFE’ –

NOT THE PARTICLE BUT THE WHOLE

CELLS DO NOT DIVIDE,ORGANISMS SUBDIVIDE THEMSELVES

CELLS MULTIPLY,THE ORGANISM ORGANIZES


DAY 4 TO 6Differentiation, the basis principleof embryonic existence ?

BLASTULA (Blastocyst)COMPACTION

‘HATCHING’

Trophectoderm> Trophoblast

Inner Cell Mass> Embryoblast

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AN ORGANISM IS NOT BUILT UP FROM”PARTS, CELLS OR OTHER ANALYTIC COMPONENTS

AN ORGANISM DIFFERENTIATES IN(TO) ITS PARTS


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ENACT

MOTION

EXACT

PERFORMACT(ION)

GESTUREGEST

MOTIONPROCESS

FORM

• We are not built

up by…”

• „Anatomy

destructs more

than you like“

FORMS COMES FORTH FROM

MOTION “In the Beginning the Act“


‘DIE LEIBSCHAFFENDE SEELE’

‘Just’ a piece of glass to look

through

Or?

A lifelong performance of

clarity to look with?

‘Blood as fluid?’

The body as a process and a

performance - Gestaltung

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AN EXTRAVERT EXISTENCE .. ?

ADULT:

CENTRIFUGAL

ORIENTATION –

THE AIM IS

THE WORLD,

THE

ENVIRONMENT

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AN INTRAVERT EXISTENCE .. ?

EMBRYO:

CENTRIPETAL

ORIENTATION –

THE AIM IS THE

ORGANIZATION

OF THE BODY

ITSELF

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BLOOD? ORGAN? TISSUE? FLUID? SYSTEM?


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ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTIVE AND MUSCLE TISSUE AROUND THE

ELBOW JOINT (ARTICULATIO CUBITI)

ARCHITECTURE of connective and

muscular tissue around the elbow joint

IN PARTICULAR and around joints

IN GENERAL

The meaning (function) of this

architecture as to proprioception

(kinesthesia) nduction

FROM FACTS TO CONCEPTS - INDUCTION –

AND BACK …


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A ‘transborder’ anatomy of fascia

Connective tissue and its functional

organization in the human body

Architecture of connective tissue in the Musculoskeletal

System

Thesubstrate of

proprioceptionin joint regions

1988

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FOR FASCIAL LAYERS IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT WHERE

BUT ALSO ABOUT HOW

The distal fascia antebrachii

represents proximally a

different functional structure as

it does distally

The same is true

for fascia cruris and for …

Fascia lata with the so-called

tractus iliotibialis (which by the

way is a mechanically impossible

structure)


IN A NAME OFTEN IS INCORPORATED HOW YOU THINK ABOUT THE THING! *

Musculoskeletal system?

Ever heard of a “connective tissue skeleton”?

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ANATOMY IS NOMENCLATURE. WHAT IS IN A NAME?


IF IT IS NO LONGER ABOUT THE PARTS AND ‘WHERE’

BUT ALSO ABOUT THE WHOLE AND ‘HOW’ ….

Tensegrity, integrity is a relationship not an anatomy

We need other ‘elements’ and ‘relationships’

…….. then ARCHITECTURE is the Keyword.


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But like this!

Connective and

muscle tissue

not IN PARALLEL

(like ligaments)

but IN SERIES!

Not in this way!

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‘OLD’ SITUATION:

- Connective- and muscle tissue

organized in parallel

- ‘Ligaments’ only ‘functional’ in one

particular joint position

‘NEW’ SITUATION:

- Connective and muscular tissue

organized in series

- Ligaments are ‘functional’ in ‘’ every’

joint position

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WHAT IS IN A MAN’S MIND?

RADIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT

MADE BY SHARP DISSECTION

DRAWING OF CAPSULAR

‘LIGAMENTS’


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CONSEQUENCES

To the lateral humeral

epicondyl rdCT layers

(and cases) are

converging and inserting

… with in series

muscle fascicles of the

extensor muscles (in a

pennate configuration)THE CONCEPT OF THE LATERAL COLLATERAL FORCE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM LCFTS

ANNULAR LIGAMENTS ARE

MADE BY SHARP DISSECTION


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If you cut here, you

make an annular

ligament

‘CLEAN ANATOMY’. AWAY WITH THE ‘ENVELOP’


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‘IMPOSSIBLE ANATOMY’ (‘MUSCULOSKELETAL’)

Spatial distribution of muscle spindles

and GTOs Non-evenly distributed over the muscles

Organized according to CT (septum)–muscle– CT

(tendon)–units i.e. to ARCHITECTURE = FORCE

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MECHANORECEPTORS ‘KNOW

NOTHING ABOUT’….

…. muscles

…. neither of ligaments …. nor capsules ..

they only ‘know’ about reacting to deformation in their deformable environment

“This means that in vivo the peri-articular connective tissue (which not necessarily has to be iuxta-articular) may be stressed or loaded by replacement of skeletal parts guided by the tension (or changes in that) of the muscular tissue inserting to it” (Van Mameren)

FASCIAL ARCHITECTURE IS INSTRUMENTAL IN PROPRIOCEPTION

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THERE ARE NO PROPRIOCEPTORS

Mechanoreceptors do not need to be classified

anatomically as to proprioception (in particular not as

‘joint receptors’ vs. ‘muscle receptors’)

Besides physiological parameters it is the context that

determines whether a certain mechanoreceptor is

activated or not.

And that context is architectural

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The CT architecture is instrumental in the

process of proprioception

NOT ONLY

WHERE

ALSO ‘HOW’



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WHICH ANATOMICAL ELEMENTS PLAY A

ROLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF FORCES

ALONG A SYNOVIAL JOINT (STABILITY)

Articulating bones en articular surfaces

Ligaments and other (collagenous)

connective tissue structures

Muscles including their connective

tissue components (tendons,

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MUSCLE MAN, A FUNCTIONAL & ANATOMICAL REALITY?

Muscle is not an functional unit: in

muscle physiology that rather is the

motor unit,

Only on the level of the ventral horn cells

in the spinal cod there is muscle

organization, already in the other ventral

horn cells there is task organization.

And the brain? “The brain knows nothing

about muscles”. In brain physiology the

‘functional unit’ rather is MOVEMENT.

Now even the anatomy is challenged


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WHAT KIND OF FORCES HAVE TO BE GUIDED /

TRANSMITTED IN SYNOVIAL JOINT?

Pressure

forces

Tension /

traction forces

2 PRESSURE FORCES via articular

surfaces and bone elements

TRACTION/TENSION FORCES

Statically via ligaments and

so on - ‘passively’

Dynamically via muscles -

‘actively’

3?

Tensegrity refers to the integrity

of structures based on a

balance between pull and

pressure, tensile and

compressive forces. The tensile

forces are guided along steel

cables. The pressure forces are

transmitted in bars of steel,

aluminum or wood.

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TENSEGRITY: IT’S ALSO ABOUT TWO


ARCHITECTURAL ‘UNITS’?

NOT: OR

But a muscle - connective

tissue -

bone - unit ……

- Call it a ’DYNAMENT’

…… with which you

may ‘construct’ every

structure in the

Locomotor System?

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ARCHITECTURAL UNITS IN THE MUSCULO-

SKELETAL SYSTEM? ‘DYNAMENTS’ ?

Not: OR

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ARCHITECTURAL ‘UNITS’?

Which means:

transmission of compression forces via bones and joint surfaces

versus

Transmission of tensile forces via muscle and connective tissueUnits of muscle AND connectivetissue (with ligaments as ‘exceptional’)

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APPRECIATION AND RECOGNITION


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Evid Based Complement Alternat Med.

2011; 2011: 260510.

Published online 2011 Apr 26.

doi: Review of Evidence Suggesting That

the Fascia Network Could Be the

Anatomical Basis for Acupoints and

Meridians in the Human Body

J.C. van der Wal used 3D reconstruction studies to reveal a continuous

connective tissue structure that runs throughout the body allowing for

dynamic connections between the fascia and musculature [26]. Van der

Wal's work was revolutionary in that it has provided a view of the fascia as an

integrated structure, rather than distinct piecemeal structures associated

with particular muscles and/or bones [26].

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Dynamic LigamentsBy Tom Myers www.anatomytrains.com

The Revolutionary Re-Vision of Jaap van der Wal

Published on http://erikdalton.com/media/published-articles/dynamic-ligaments/#comment-998

We are in the midst of a radical rethinking of how the musculoskeletal system works. It is ever more

clear that ‘the muscle’ is an outdated and un-physiological concept and that the understanding of the

fascia as a body-wide regulatory system will yield the next generation of effective hands-on interventions.

Although Jaap’s seminal paper was published for the Amsterdam conference in 2009, his original work

was published way back in the mid-’80′s. At that time, his findings were simply too radical for the prevailing

wisdom, and was given the standard scientific treatment: his work was ignored, shelved, and dismissed.

Even now, his ideas present a significant challenge to our understanding. Once grasped however, his logic

has that obvious, ‘of course it’s that way!’ Inevitability.

Getting stuck in the cul-de-sac of ‘muscle’ as a functional unit is an understandable conceptual error – it

fits our mechanistic worldview and is very convenient and logical. Just wrong. It is not an easy task for

us, with all our training, to back up and take another route. Even with my gray hair and years of trying to

think outside its box, I still think in terms of muscles. But our children, the next generation of hands-on

and movement therapists, will start out with a new unified vision, built from the kinds of ideas we are

debuting here. Hats off to Jaap van der Wal, harbinger of the future.

APPRECIATION AND RECOGNITION

http://www.anatomytrains.com/

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ACTING

MOTION

EFFECT

‘MUSCLES’LOCOMOTOR

SYSTEM

THE BRAIN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE MUSCLES

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RESPIRATORY MUSCLES DO NOT EXIST.!

MUSCLES DO NOT HAVE FUNCTIONS!!!!!!!! Muscles have

EFFECTS (and that is what they are named after).

FUNCTONS are WHAT the PLS (Posturing and Locomotion System) performs and accomplishes with the muscles, joints, and so on, in respect to locomotion and posturing.

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THE EXPERIMENT BY WICKENS

Dorsal- or palmar-

flexion in the wrist

(ventral en dorsal

flexors of the forearm)

Raising your hand

resp. laying it down on

a surface

DO WE LEARN

MOVEMENTS .. ?

DO WE LEARN

ACTIONS .. ?


‘BRAINS KNOW NOTHING ..….’

Does the ‘homunculus

motoricus’ posses

muscles?

And what about the

‘homunculus

sensoricus’?

It is not about anatomy

or muscles it is about

forces and movement

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‘THANKS TO VESALIUS’: THE ANATOMICAL

ATTITUDE VERSUS KINESIOGICAL THINKING’

Muscles are not homogenous as to distribution of

activity

Muscle is not a physiologically functional unit, that rather

is the MOTOR UNIT, in brain physiology this rather is

MOTION or MOVEMENT!

Neuromuscular compartments

Task related aspects a.o. pools of neurons. Even the

spinal cord “hardly knows about muscles”

•Because there also is:

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THE ANATOMICAL ATTITUDE VERSUS

KINESIOGICAL THINKING

The musculoskeletal system # the locomotor system which

actually is not a locomotor system but a posturing and locomotion

system (PLS).

With a musculoskeletal system in isolation one cannot move: a

PLS sensu lato includes a part of the nervous system (CNS)

Last but not least: Is the motor nerve a “moving” nerve? Are

muscles “innervated”? They MOVE!

Sensorimotor circles: Motion is adjusting and tuning of circuits


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GESTALTUNG INSTEAD OF MOTION?

The musculoskeletal system # the locomotor system which actually is not

a locomotor system but a posturing and locomotion and posture system

LPS. It is about Gestaltung.

The brain is not the nervous system of the PLS, that is the central NS of

the spinal cord and brain stem, the Reflex organization, reflected in motor

and task units and architectural muscle-CT units.

And to that metameric reflex organization belongs the motoric nerve.

Muscles are not “innervated” .

The brain tunes in with this lower level system and vice versa. “The brain

knows nothing about muscles, has other interests”.


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THE ‘ARCHITECTURE’ OF STEERING AND CONTROL IN

THE POSITION AND LOCOMOTOR APPARATUS.

A cross-border approach to the spatial organization of proprioceptors.

Kinesthesia and statesthesia in the strict sense (motion sense and

proprioception) which means: being informed about position, speed

and velocity of body parts in space.

Sense and/or sense organ. Sense is not the same as receptor.

Motion sense is not synonymous with sense in or of the locomotor

system.

A given sense needs (a) sense organ. In case of proprioception that

are the mechanoreceptors.

Again: "Sense is a process, NOT anatomy or topography".


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THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION COUL BE: WHAT MOVES US?

Who moves?

What moves me?

Muscles, nerves, cords brains?

Are your muscles CAUSING your movement?

What are your motion organs?

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POSTURING, BALANCING, NOT LOCOMOTION alone

Locomotion appears to me not be a skeleton moved by muscles

which on their turn are innervated (“moved) by a central nervous

system.

Locomotion is stature and motion, shaping your body Gestalt,

steered and controlled by a nervous system, not caused.

PLS (incl musculoskeletet system) as well as brain are necessary

but not sufficient conditions for posturing and motion.

Like your speech centers do not cause your speech. With brain,

nerves, larynx and lungs you have a speech apparatus. You speak

with it.


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STRANDBEESTEN BY THEO JANSEN

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THREE TYPES

OF MUSCLE

THREE WAYS

OF MOVING

VIBRATION RHYTHM CYCLE

Skeletal muscles

Striated M Tissue

Cardiac muscle is ‘primeval muscle’’

Muscle as connective tissue:

connecting and shaping space

Stofwechselmuskel

Glattes MG

Motion in form

(‘posturing)

Rhythmic motion

forming and flowing

Flowing motion

(waves)

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THREE TYPES

OF MUSCLE

THREE WAYS

OF CONTROLSMOOTH

HEART

STRIATED


TENSEGRETY IS ABOUT TWO


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Tensegrity, tensional integrity or

floating compression, is a

structural principle based on the

use of isolated components in

compression inside a net of

continuous tension, in such a

way that the compressed

members (usually bars or struts)

do not touch each other and the

prestressed tensioned members

(usually cables or tendons)

delineate the system spatially.

The term tensegrity was coined

by Buckminster Fuller in the

1960s as a portmanteau of

"tensional integrity". The other

denomination of tensegrity,

floating compression, was used

mainly by Kenneth Snelson.

METABOLIC FIELDS & KINETICS - ERICH BLECHSCMIDT

Dilation fields (f): In such fields, the living tissue cells become

extended and aligned in bundles (fascicles) and sheets. Such

cells develop into muscle fibers.

Retension fields (h): Inner tissue that becomes stretched and

tensed during development. Growth resistance lead to a

tensing of the tissue. The ceils in a retension field become

spindle-shaped and their nuclei ellipsoidal. Tendons,

ligaments, joint capsules are examples of such stretched

tissue

Densation fields (d) are characterized by the loss of

intercellular fluids and the resulting close packing of cells as

the tissue consolidates. All skeletonization in the embryo

arises in densation fields.


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METABOLIC FIELDS & KINETICS

according to ERICH BLECHSCMIDT

Dilation fields in thigh region of 32 mm long fetus (right thigh, lateral view).

Still-cartilaginous parts of thigh skeleton stippled.

Diverging arrows with cross-tails: piston like growth of cartilage.

White arrows: growth dilation of muscles

DILATIONSFELDER UND DYNAMENTEN

„In the human body never there are

purely mechanical procedures, (......)

probably however biomechanical

stress, thus stress effects as

achievements of living cells and cell

conglomerates. Biological

processes are always more than

purely physical procedures.

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If fascia is considered to be the “adult” appearance of the mesenchyme matrix …

If the mesenchyme matrix on its turn is the appearance of Meso, of the Inner tissue …

If the two polar tendencies i.e. the RHYTHM of connection and disconnection are also represented by the polarity of contraction and relaxation i.e. the RHYTHM of the muscular tissue”(By the way: Muscles are NOT contractile organs),

Maybe that muscle tissue and connective tissue are two of the same be it dynamically versus statically / structurally?

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WHAT IF ……. LIFE IS THE ‘IN BETWEEN’?

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Muscle man, where

is your fascia?

Tensegrity man, do

not forget your

muscle tissue!

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FASCIA MAN PLUS MUSCLE MAN

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THE OFFFICIAL QUOTE


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"The soul of man, with all the streams of pure living water, seems to dwell in the fascia of his body“

Andrew Taylor Still(In: The Philosophy and Mechanical

Principles of Osteopathy, p. 61)

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A view

AFTER

NIDATION:

DAY 6 TILL 9Syncytiotrophoblast

Cytotrophoblast 82


WHERE ACTUALLY FASCIA IS COMING FROM?

END

2ND

WEEK

Vegetative existence?No ‘inner content’ yet?A body without fascia?

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THREE REALMS, THREE GESTURES

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GERM LAYERS: IT IS ABOUT TWO

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1 + 1 = 3

EPIBLAST – ECTODERM

HYPOBLAST - ENDODERM


INNER TISSUE OR „INNEGEWEBE“

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“INNERNESS”, THE MATRIX TISSUE


2 LIMITING TISSUES AND 1 INNER TISSUE

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Erich Blechschmidt (1904-

1992) introduced the principle

of limiting tissues vs inner

tissue.

The classical triad Ectoderm,

Mesoderm and Endoderm

should be interpreted as a

twofoldness with meso(derm)’

as the ‘INNER’, the IN-

BETWEEN (not the viscera, they

represent the INSIDE)


MESO IS THE „INNER“ TISSUE:

IT CREATES SPACE AND CONNECTS

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TO

PARIETO-

VISCERAL

DELAMI-

NATION

FROM DORSOVENTRAL

LAMINARITY


EVEN BLOOD, EVEN BONE … IS MESO

TENDENCIES IN THE INNER

OR MATRIX TISSUE

• Phenomenologically two organizing

tendencies in the primordial Inner

tissue of Mesenchyme exist:

CONNECTION,

centering,

Concentration

CONNECTING & SHAPING SPACE

Decentration,

peripherizing,

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INTEGRETY SYSTEMS

• It is ‘everywhere’,

it connects

and it shapes space

• It enables motion

and it mediates

in a ‘mechanical‘ way

and in spatial

organization **

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TWO EXPONENTS OF MESO? BLOOD AND FASCIA

Fascia as a system providing a.o. the architectur e of proprioception **

The primeval dimension of the

mesenchyme as the MATRIX

tissue is CONNEC-TING and

SHAPING SPACE *

Represented by tendencies like

‘compaction’ versus ‘dilation’

(formation of body cavities).

Mesenchyme as a PRIMARY

ORGAN / TISSUE

*“Articular joints” are dynamic spaces and organs of motion


TWO EXPONENTS OF THE MESO:

BLOOD AND FASCIA

‘BLOOD’ IS AN ORGAN / SYSTEM, ‘FASCIA’ ALSO

• ‘Blood’ is here defined as the organ

of mediation

• Blood as a tissue, blood as

cardiovascular system

• Blood formation and vessel

formation always go hand in hand

• Heart, arteries&veins and

capillaries represent the threefold

organization of blood as an organ

• ‘Blood’ is the PRIMARY ORGAN

The primary aspect of blood:

capillary system

Out of that develops the heart,

‘head’ of cardiovascular system

FUNCTION:

BLOOD MEDIATES

BLOOD CONNECTS AND SHAPES

SPACE

BLOOD IS ‘EVERYWHERE AND

NOWHERE’

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THREE LEVELS IN A

TWOFOLD ORGANISATION

• Two ‘body walls’ or interactive boundaries (i.e.. ‘DERM’ !) with / against environment

– PARIETAL BODY WALL

– VISCERAL BODY WALL

• And an ‚IN BETWEEN’ as ‚INNER‘- dimension: MESO (so actually NOT a ‘-derm’!)

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• Ectoderm

– ANTIPATHY

– SEPARATING

– OPPOSING

• Meso(derm)

– EMPATHY

– INNER ROOM

– MEDIATING

• Endoderm

– SYMPATHY

– CONNECTING

– ROOTING

GERM LAYERS ARE FUNCTIONAL

PRINCIPLES, NOT ‘ANATOMY’

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“NICHT LEBEN UND TOT SIND DIE GEGENSÄTZE,

ABER GEBURT UND STERBEN. LEBEN IST EWIG“

ECKHART TOLLE

DISCONNECTING SEPARATION

SHAPING SPACE

CONNECTINGROOTINGBINDING

RHYTHM IS LIFE, IS BREATH

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LIFE IS MESO, IS THE MIDDLE




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HEADS, BRAINS, AND LIMBS

TRIUNE MAN

Image of the threefold psych-

somatic organisation of the

human being, including its

three fold relationship with

the world and environment

A morphological,

physiological, psychological

and even mental principle


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MIND

MOTION

MATTER

END

2ND MONTH

0,7 INCH

(17,5 CM)BLECHSCHMIDT

COLLECTION

The ‘law’of the

craniocaudalgradient

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THE POLARITY GRADIENT?

CRANIOCAUDALDISTOPROXIMAL

DORSOVENTRAL

…...

……...

………….

THE ‘AXIS’ OFCONSCIOUSNESS

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THE POLARITY GRADIENT?

CRANIOCAUDALDISTOPROXIMAL

DORSOVENTRAL

…...

……...

………….

THE ‘AXIS’ OFCONSCIOUSNESS

from motion ...

…… to form

from embryo ...

…… to adulthood

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CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES

OUTSIDE AND INSIDE …

Cranial and caudal

Head and limbs

Heart and capillaries

Dorsal and ventral

And so on, and so on, and so om ….

A holographic principal

AND ALWAYS THERE IS AN MESO, AND IN BETWEEN, A

“MIDDLENESS” and INNERNESS


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POLARITY THINKING: IT ALWAYS IS ABOUT THE TWO


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Cosmos and Chaos

Connecting and giving room

Contraction and relaxation

Terrestrial and Celestial forces

Centripetality and centrifugality

Center forces and periphery forces

Mind AND matter

Form AND function

fasciasophy - philosophical aspects of an organ of …

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