Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body: The science and clinical applications in manual and movement therapy

by Robert Schleip (Editor), Peter Huijing (Editor), Thomas W. Findley (Editor)

This book is the product of an important collaboration between clinicians of the manual therapies and scientists in several disciplines that grew out of the three recent International Fascia Research Congresses (Boston, Amsterdam, and Vancouver). The book editors, Thomas Findley MD PhD, Robert Schleip PhD, Peter Huijing PhD and Leon Chaitow DO, were major organizers of these congresses and used their extensive experience to select chapters and contributors for this book. This volume therefore brings together contributors from diverse backgrounds who share the desire to bridge the gap between theory and practice in our current knowledge of the fascia and goes beyond the 2007, 2009 and 2012 congresses to define the state-of-the-art, from both the clinical and scientific perspective. Prepared by over 100 specialists and researchers from throughout the world, The Tensional Network of the Human Body will be ideal for all professionals who have an interest in fascia and human movement - physiotherapists, osteopathic physicians, osteopaths, chiropractors, structural integration practitioners, manual therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, yoga or Pilates instructors, exercise scientists and personal trainers - as well as physicians involved with musculoskeletal medicine, pain management and rehabilitation, and basic scientists working in the field.

Genres: Health

568 pages, Paperback

Published April 25, 2012

Reviews

[Flan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although some of this material has already been replaced with more up-to-date information, it is still an excellent reference for the study of fascia. This is a part of the body that was ignored for centuries in western medicine. The American Anatomists went so far as to cut it out of the body before they started to draw to get this useless tissue out of the way of what needed to be studied. This is the beginning of the acknowledgement that fascia, rather than useless tissue is the substructure of the body. Most organs and systems are laid out in the growing fetal tissue in fascia first, then filled in with the tissue that becomes organ, muscle, ligament, tendon. This is not a book to read front to back, but a reference to use again and again.