Musculoskeletal Key

1.2 Somatic fascia Frank H. Willard Global organization of fascia in the body Overview of the organization of somatic fascia in the body When we think about the somatic portion…

4.5 Fluid dynamics in fascial tissues Guido F Meert It is easy to forget that the concentration quotients of salts (NaCl, KCl, CaCl2) in interstitial fluid and in water of…

1.10 Diaphragmatic structures Serge Paoletti Introduction The diaphragm is a muscular fibrous structure between the chest and the abdomen. It separates two areas with different physiological functions: an upper area…

4.3 Extracellular matrix Frans Van den Berg As already described in Chapter 4.1, extracellular matrix consists basically of three components: connective tissue fibers (collagen and elastic fibers), the ground substance…

3.4 Anatomy Trains and force transmission Thomas Myers Introduction – extracellular matrix as metamembrane Despite humans’ biblical and Aristotelian penchant for naming parts, anatomists, however many of the bottomless barrel…

3.2 Myofascial force transmission An introduction Peter A Huijing Intramuscular substrates of myofascial force transmission Endomysia constitute tubes for each myofiber. Note, however, that endomysial walls are shared between adjacent…

2.4 Nociception The thoracolumbar fascia as a sensory organ Ulrich Hoheisel, Toru Taguchi and Siegfried Mense Introduction In the literature, the thoracolumbar fascia (TLF) is usually assumed to have a…

2.3 Interoception A new correlate for intricate connections between fascial receptors, emotion, and self recognition Robert Schleip and Heike Jäger Introduction While the sense of proprioception is fairly well known…

5.2 Dupuytren’s disease and other fibrocontractive disorders Ian L Naylor Introduction Surprisingly, 188 years after Baron Dupuytren first described this condition of the hand, many fundamental details about the disease…