Fascia: Form And Function With Barry Malina, D.O.

A lecture by Barry Malina, D.O.

Dr. Malina walks through the anatomy of connective tissue, the anatomy of the nervous system, and the place where the two meet. Then he lines that anatomy up against what A.T. Still wrote more than a hundred years ago, and shows that the words are different but the meaning is the same.

What the lecture covers

• The major types of connective tissue, and why the distinctions between loose connective tissue, fascia, ligament, and tendon are partly arbitrary
• Fascia as sheets and tubes, arranged deep to superficial, and what that means when you palpate a strain pattern
• Why all connective tissue is continuous with all other connective tissue, so a local disturbance can produce a distant problem
• The interstitium as the medium of exchange, and what happens to cellular function when that exchange is blocked
• The neurofascial connection: nerves invested in connective tissue, the dura continuous with periosteum, and the extracranial fascia tied to the dura through the base of the skull
• A treatment model with the central nervous system as software, the fascia as hardware, and somatic dysfunction as a break in the communication link between them
• Finding the key lesion instead of chasing the complaint, or as Dr. Malina puts it, finding the locomotive instead of treating the caboose
• Still’s own words on fascia, read next to modern histology

Who it is for

Physicians and manual therapists who want the anatomical reasoning behind fascial work, and a more objective way to decide where to begin.

What you get

• A 40 minute streaming video of the full lecture
• The complete written transcript

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