Your Fascia: Understanding the Bands That Bind Us Together

The Fascia Research Society explains it like this, “Fascia is the most pervasive, but perhaps least understood network of the human body. No longer considered the ‘scraps’ of cadaver dissections, fascia has now attracted the attention of scientists and clinicians alike.”

Fascia is a web of connective tissue formed in bands that wraps around all the internal parts of the body from head to toe and fuses it all together.  It allows the muscles to move freely alongside other structures and reduces friction.

It can be found immediately beneath the skin, around muscles, groups of muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels, organs and cells. Fascia is everywhere.  Biologically, it’s what holds us together.  Like a snug pair of pantyhose (as if there is any other kind), fasciae are the bands that bind us.