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Old 05-25-2013, 02:07 PM   #9
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Re: Fascia and the story about Fuzz

The video has more to do with pathological "stickiness" between sheets of connective tissue than it has to do with elasticity or tensile strength along the length of those sheets.

So, it doesn't have much to do with IS in my opinion.

But it is nice to be in a world where the idea that connective tissue is actively changing in response to behavior is taking hold. This video talks about the "fuzz" stuff as well as lots of other current ideas in connective tissue research-- it's a great overview. (It shows some promising live imaging techniques.) But it also touches on what I and others consider another red herring for IS discussion, the Schleip discovery of fascia contracting over a timescale of minues and hours in response to hormones.

So, there is a lot of stuff coming out that does not happen to be IS-oriented¸ because things like pathology are more interesting to lots of people, and because there is so many different things going on in connective tissue.
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