John Sharkey: Do 3D plastinated fascia specimens (from the Fascial Net Plastination Project or FNPP) enrich understanding of anatomy and human movement?
Clinical Anatomist John Sharkey invites you to view bespoke images of Fascia specimens and models that have emerged from the Fascial Net Plastination Project or FNPP. John Sharkey invites you to express your thoughts, suggestions and ideas on how such specimens may be put to best educational use and you can suggest possible future fascia…
Andrzej Pilat: Fascia Continuity – evidence from unembalmed dissections
In anatomical research, using a topographical approach performed on embalmed cadavers, the concept of “fascia” relates to some anatomical structures such as the tensor fasciae latae, the palmar fascia and the thoracolumbar fascia. It suggests a series of unrelated elements instead of a unique and continuous configuration that links the body structure. Such an approach…
How do you see your body?
Not that long ago many yoga classes were very focused on achieving and holding a posture; nowadays they may very well concentrate more on developing our somatic awareness as we are encouraged to unfold, unfurl and unspiral our limbs, and to be aware of the effect on the whole body of one small movement. This change…
How do you see your body?
by Jan Trewartha Not that long ago many yoga classes were very focused on achieving and holding a posture; nowadays they may very well concentrate more on developing our somatic awareness as we are encouraged to unfold, unfurl and unspiral our limbs, and to be aware of the effect on the whole body of one…
Anatomies
It’s all in the perception! Even though this may come as a bit of a shock, it is important to realize that none of the ways anatomy is-or-was taught to you and I – by our teachers, textbooks, and even the latest and whizz-bangiest virtual anatomy atlases – actually tells the full truth about the…