Category: Research

Intermediate stratum

Intermediate strata is the arthroscopic surgeons’ term for ‘loose fascia’. Add this to Thies’ interstitium, Hedley’s peri-fascial membranes, Guimberteau’s Multimicrovacuolar Collagen Absorbing System, Borden’s Rapidly-Adap[ting Internal Network, or my Biomehcanical Auto-Regulatory System, Or go with the traditional: intermuscular fascia, areolar, adipose, subcutaneous, hypodermis – so very many words for different areas within our singular ‘biome’ of… Read more

Acupuncture Meridians and the Anatomy Trains

Out on the road again this autumn, I have been asked by many people about the relationship between the acupuncture meridians and the ‘myofascial meridians’ of Anatomy Trains.     Let me begin by saying that I myself know almost nothing about acupuncture, the meridians, or Asian medicine in general. I built / discovered / mapped… Read more

The Memory Palace of Bones: Review from Tom Myers

As a writer who happens also to be an anatomist, I am absurdly eager to recommend The Memory Palace of Bones, from our friends at Handspring.  This is the most poetic journey through our innerness since Deane Juhan surprised us all with the soaring and elegant Job’s Body (wow, nearly five decades ago).  Like Deane, David Lauterstein and Jeff Rockwell… Read more

How the brain ‘does’ perception – by Tom Myers

Fascia is the envelope that the message of consciousness arrives in. As we watch neurology advance to its next digitally-powered chapter, fascia and consciousness snuggle ever closer to each other. Neurology’s previous chapter – the one that I grew up on, exemplified in Skinner’s behaviourism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism) – was based on the idea of ˆtabula raaa’ .  With us since Aristotle,… Read more

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