New study asks: Should we replace mental health meds with exercise?
Some very interesting and noteworthy points come up in this commentary. For someone like me it’s a no-brainer! I think we ll appreciate how measured and enjoyable (for the individual)…
Fascia and the Lymphatic System
FASCIA AND THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM In the current climate of a world pandemic, it’s crucial that we understand as individuals what we can do to optimize our health, whether we…
Fascia as a Communicator
FASCIA AS A COMMUNICATOR The fact that the simplest of organisms have for millennia led relatively sophisticated lives – hunting prey, reproducing and avoiding predators – without a nervous system…
Fascia, Proprioception and Interoception
PROPRIOCEPTION & INTEROCEPTION – Traditionally within the human experience, we’ve always referred to our having 5 senses – sight, hearing, touch (our favourite, perhaps?), taste and smell. But what if…
Fascia and Scar Tissue
Scar tissue has long been a source of fascination to me, and to many others it seems! Often in fresh-tissue dissections, scars have captured my imagination for their capacity to…
Fascia and Scar Tissue, Part II
We learned last week that scarring is an almost inevitable fact of life. Fortunately for many of us, the wound is superficial and as such so is the scar. But…
Fascia and Stasis Part I
To borrow from my recent presentation at the Australian Fascia Symposium, we all know we need to move, but how much is too much and how much is too little?…
Fascia and Stasis Part II
So last week we saw what happens at the level of the collagen in the perimysium (the deep fascial covering around the outside of muscles, encapsulating them like cling film)…
Hyaluronan
So, to carry on from last week’s exploration of hyaluronan, or as it was referred to as “highly ironic acid” by Robert Stern and his associates in their 2006 paper…..…