Fascial Manipulation: Practical Part

Luigi Stecco, Carla Stecco; Julie Ann Day, English Edition; Robert Schleip, Forword

ISBN 10: 8829919780 / ISBN 13: 9788829919789

Published by Piccin, Padova, Italy, 2014

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Piccin, Padova, Italy. c2009, as per page 365-Printed in Italy December 2014. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light rubbing to boards. No DJ. Pictorial heavy laminate boards and spine with red and white lettering on the spine and front board. 364 pp 4to. Welcome to and exciting new field in musculoskeletal therapy; the fascinating world of fascia. The authors present a novel model concerning the contribution of fascia to neuromuscular coordination through a specific topography of centers within the fascial network (centers of coordination, centers of perception, centers of fusion).The evidence given in this book in support for this intriguing model, covers not only corroboration phylogenetic and neuromuscular details but includes thousands of hours of anatomical cadaver research.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fascial Manipulation: Practical Part
• Publisher: Piccin, Padova, Italy
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8829919780
• ISBN 13: 9788829919789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medical/Human Nature/Psychology

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Synopsis

Welcome to an exciting new field in musculoskeletal therapy: the fascinating world of fascia. Fascia forms a continuous tensional network throughout the human body, covering and connecting every single organ, every muscle, and even every nerve or tiny muscle fiber. After several decades of severe neglect, this ubiquitous tissue has transformed from the “Cinderella of orthopaedic science” into an almost super star position within medical research. Starting with the first few years of this 21st century, the number of research papers on fascia in peer-reviewed journals experienced an almost exponential increase. The 1st International Fascia Research Congress, held at the Harvard Medical School in October 2007, was celebrated with worldwide acknowledgement. Similar to the rapidly growing field of glia research in neurology, there is now a global recognition that this underestimated contextual tissue plays a much more important role in health and pathology than was estimated during previous decades. As every medical student knows and every doctor still remembers, up to now, fascia has been introduced in anatomy dissection courses as the white packing stuff that one first needs to clean off, in order “to see something”. Similarly, anatomy books have been competing with each other, in how clean and orderly they present the locomotor system, by cutting away the whitish or semi-translucent fascia as completely and skilfully as possible. While students appreciate these appealing graphic simplifications, with shiny red muscles, each attaching to specific skeletal points, frustration is certain when these simplified maps have almost nothing to do with how the real body feels and behaves, be it in medical surgery or during therapeutic palpation. To give an example: in real bodies, muscles hardly ever transmit their full force directly via tendons into the skeleton, as is usually suggested by our textbook drawings.