What is Facia? By Mrs.Denise Brockman CCC-SLP
I like to believe our clinic has a unique way of working with our clients.
When a client comes to our clinic for a speech and feeding evaluation, we look at the whole body. You may ask: Why would someone working with the mouth and all its parts need to look at the entire body? Below is a brief explanation of why we do just this. Everything in the body is truly connected and impacts each and every other part of the body.
What is Facia?
We are all like spiderman, a web without a weaver.
This is a diagram of just the fascia of the body when every other part is removed.
What is fascia? Medical scholars are still learning about what fascia is and how it impacts our bodies. It is known, fascia is a type of connective tissue that plays a vital role in the structure and function of your body. It is seen as a thin, flexible web or sheet that wraps around your muscles, organs, and even bones. Its connectivity helps hold everything in place, providing support and allowing for smooth movement.
Fascia has multiple functions. Fascia allows your muscles to glide smoothly over each other during movement. It also helps with posture and stability, ensuring that everything stays aligned and functions properly. Additionally, fascia contains nerves and blood vessels, playing a role in communication within the body.
Fascia, has no beginning or end. It connects every muscle, organ, bone, cell, blood vessel, and nerve to
Fascia is ONE system, a continuous mesh without beginning and end, that maintains and establishes interconnection, communication and interaction between different parts of the body
The fascia is the elastic, continous network in the body that extends from the surface of the skin down to each cell and connects to the cell nucleus via the cytoskeleton.
The fascia is the largest organ, it accounts for more than a third of the ‘musculoskeletal system’ and more correct would be the ‘fasciomusculoskeletal system’. Also pain receptors as well as other nerve receptors are found in the fascia,
To quote Jean Claude Guimberteau:
“We thought fascia was nothing, but now we know that it is everything”
“A web without a weaver”
To learn more about what fascia is go to: https://fasciaguide.com/fascia-guide/what-is-fascia-and-in-what-way-does-fascia-change-the-whole-way-of-looking-at-the-body/ or click the button above.
STAY TUNED: Next blog will look at types of tethered oral tissue, including lingual, or tongue ties, and why we also look at the role fascia plays. Check out our Instagram Post as well to keep up with our latest post and clinic updates.
