Anatomy Trains
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"Something is moving." - Einstein, in answer to a query as to whether there was anything he knew for sure.

Fresh Tissue Dissection

Here are some pictures from the cadaver dissection in May 2007 in Denver, CO with Todd Garcia and the Laboratories for Anatomical Enlightenment. These pictures and other videos will be included in the next edition of the Dissection DVD.

Meanwhile, here are some of the gruesome but enlightening pictures from this exciting dissection.



Unembalmed fascia is like "Slime" or silly putty. Here you see the fascia of the infraspinatus being held up by a hemostat.



Here is the superficial back arm line, partially dissected so that you can see the interosseous membrane of the arm underneath the extensor muscles.



Here is the first view of the Superficial Back Arm Line dissected out as a whole - trapezius on the right, extensors on the left. Notice the hole where we could not get the deltoid up off the acromion process.



Here's the Superficial Front Line from pubic bone to the neck, with the lacy fascia across the chest - not a very good confirmation of the Anatomy Trains theory. There is nothing so sad as the destruction of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact! The SCM's are at the top.



A flashlight inside the ribs - see how thin the intercostals are?



The shoulder - again fresh tissue, unembalmed - flayed out so we can see the splenio-rhombo-serratus muscle - a Spiral line special - on the left. The latissimus and pectoralis are on top, and levator scapulae off to the left.



Our new line! The Ipsilateral Functional Line - the picture's not good, but that's the latissimus at the bottom, leading into the external oblique in the middle, and over the ASIS to the sartorius that goes down to the inside of the knee.



The new thing is 'fascial foam' - tune into the vacuole system. See all the little bubbles in the fascia?



We took microscopic pictures of the fresh tissue fascia and we were impressed with all the vacuole (bubbles, foam) within nearly every piece of tissue we looked at - even the most fibrous.
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