![]() ![]() You experience the fuzz when you reach your arms up overhead in the morning or watch your cat or dog arch its back into a yoga pose after their nap, and feel like dry elastic is shredding inside you. That’s because fascia both separates and connects the different structures of our bodies, wrapping around and through them like a giant roll of cellular saran wrap it provides stability as well as mobility and is the medium through which information, like proprioception, passes between the world outside your body and the world(s) inside your body.Īs the video shows, fascia takes on a “fuzzy” quality when it is stiff (i.e., not moving). Fascia doesn’t get the kind of attention that muscles, fat, and bones do in your typical biology courses, but without fascia, those parts of your body would be pretty useless. (And with that, go watch the video-come back when you’re ready.) In it, he describes a most special kind of connective tissue called fascia. Type “the fuzz” into a YouTube search, and you’ll come upon a video by Gil Hedley, a scientist whose interests range from theological ethics to Rolfing to-wait for it-dissections of human cadavers. ![]()
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