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Fascia has become a massive buzz-word in the fitness industry, with people developing routines, devices, and treatments to work this specific tissue with the hopes that it will provide a benefit to their training plans, whether that means increasing muscle size, strength, suppleness, or speed. This has occurred relatively rapidly in terms of how quickly things are adopted in fitness, with foam rollers only becoming popular within the last 20 years, and only becoming ubiquitous in fitness facilities in the last 5. Very little research has been done on fascia, especially compared to other tissues and structures of the body, and as a result, there’s a lot of misinformation about the tissue and how to get the best results from working it. Most of the fitness communities information comes from physical therapists, chiropractors, and manual therapists, whereas very little comes from dedicated fitness professionals. The history of fascia in medicine and fitness is incredibly diminutive. During Rennaissance medicine, fascia was considered functionally useless, essentially a scaffolding supportive tissue to hold up organs, blood vessels and nerves. It was routinely cut out and discarded to showcase the more important tissues, like organs, muscles, and bones. Most anatomical illustrations of the time, specifically from Vesalius, showed bodies completely void of fascial tissue.Much of the reasoning for this is that fascia would degrade quickly with cadaver studies, and would be very difficult to study compared to other larger structures. With the advent of microscopes, and later scanning electron microscopes, which could offer a more 3D view of the tissues, fascia became somewhat more interesting.
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Dean Somerset – Foam Rolling 101

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