FASCIA STUCTURE and COMMUNICATION

Dense connective tissue sheets, known as fascia, play an important role as communication pathways.

Fascia is usually viewed as transmitting information concerning mechanical tension and structural stress to help regulate posture and movement. This historic view of the fascia is now changing. 

The eastern European researcher Szent-Gyorgyi was the first to show that the human body acts as a semiconductor for bioelectricity by transferring information along chains of protein molecules in the fascia.

This means that extremely low amperage signals are transmitted rapidly along the fascia which interconnects all parts of the body. The communication of superficial and deep fascia with visceral fascia may explain in part some of acupunctures effect on visceral function. 

Superficial fascia its subcutaneous presence is what primarily determines the shape of a body.  It serves as a passageway for lymph, nerve and blood vessels, it also:

• ·        surrounds organs and glands
• ·        surrounds neurovascular bundles
• ·        fills otherwise unoccupied space

Deep fascia surrounds individual muscles, and this dense fibrous connective tissue, shown to contractual properties, divides groups of muscles into compartments and envelops other tissue, such as:

• ·        bone (periosteum and endosteum);
• ·        cartilage (perichondrium), 
• ·        blood vessels (tunica externa)
• ·        muscles (epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium) 
• ·        nerves (epineurium, perineurium, and endoneurium)

Visceral fascia encapsulates the organs and suspends the organs within their cavities and wraps them in double layers of membranous connective tissue. 

• ·        brain, meninges 
• ·        heart. pericardia 
• ·        lungs, pleura 
• ·        abdomen, peritonea 

Ultrasound and pulsed voltage can send recognizable signals along the fascia network and also stimulates its repair.