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“Connective tissue: the forgotten player? … Skeletal muscle is invested and anchored to a number of specialised connective tissue layers organised as the endo-, peri- and epi-mysium [see Ch. 3]. These layers not only act as a conduit for blood vessels and nerves but because they become continuous with the connective tissues of the tendons and other

The fascia is essentially made up of collagen and elastin fibres bound together to form a variety of tissues.

It literally joins every single part of us together, from the finest level of detail within us, between the cells, to the outermost layer of the skin in which we are wrapped. In some places it is so fine it cannot be seen by the naked eye, while in others it forms thick, layered sheets making up a named entity such as the thoracolumbar fascia, whic

‘soft tissue component of the connective tissue system that permeates the human body’. One could also describe these as fibrous collagenous tissues which are part of a bodywide tensional force transmission system.”

Furthermore, the muscles are not connected to the bones other than via this fascial interface. It contains them, integrates and interconnects them all, as well as distinguishing them from each other.

Every single muscle fibril, group of fibrils forming fibres, group of fibres forming bundles, group of fibre bundles forming the muscle belly and continuously extending beyond the muscle belly to form the tendinous part of the muscle is fascia. Fascia is what holds a group of muscles together, what attaches them through cross-links, as a group or i

The fascia, in this instance, acts something like moss, holding bound water in and to the tissues.

The implications of this continuity of tissue were that the separately named muscle-to-tendon, bony periosteum, ligament and joint capsule together formed one continuous architecture. It was thickened, vascularised, innervated and invested with different qualities at different points of connection and disconnection. Nevertheless, the tissue in, aro

How did we come to consider the parts of the body as anything other than entirely continuous? They are united by the fabric and forms of the axial (except girdles and limbs) and appendicular (girdles and limbs) skeleton, wrapping them in the continuous matrix of tissues and continuously wrapped in periost: the fascia around all the bones. In the em