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
JAAP VAN DER WAL MD PhD
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’
JAAP VAN DER WAL MD PhD
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
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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
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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“
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‘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)
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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?
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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
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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 musculo- skeletal 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
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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.
Those functions on their turn are also framed in the context of ACTIONS like walking, taking something from the table, or RESPIRATION.
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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 .. ?
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‘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?
Muscle generate force and ENABLE movement.
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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
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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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ANATOMY AND ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATED IN A PLS
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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)
FASCIA AS “ORGAN” OF INNERNESS ?
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A view
AFTER
NIDATION:
DAY 6 TILL 9Syncytiotrophoblast
Cytotrophoblast 82
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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
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INNER TISSUE OR „INNEGEWEBE“
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“INNERNESS”, THE MATRIX TISSUE
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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)
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MESO IS THE „INNER“ TISSUE:
IT CREATES SPACE AND CONNECTS
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TO
PARIETO-
VISCERAL
DELAMI-
NATION
FROM DORSOVENTRAL
LAMINARITY
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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
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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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7 FASCIASOPHY? WHAT IS A / THE FASCIA?
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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