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Myofascial tissue illustrated as a school of fish. A therapist working with myofascial tissue may feel several of the motor units responding to the touch. If the therapist then responds supportively to their new behaviour, the working hand will feel other fish joining this release, and so on. Photo (c) Schleip.
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... hands - whether slightly more vertical/horizontal, more distal/proximal, or more medial/lateral, etc. -at which the local tissue relaxation response spreads out most readily toward a larger, more spacious tis- sue response. The analogy of a school of fish can be employed to foster the related empathic palpatory sensitivity of the therapist (Fig. ...
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... The consequence is that the loose connective tissue will act like glue instead of oil, making adjacent structures stick to each other -all the way up to densification. Furthermore, the fibroblast will turn into a myofibroblast and have a contractile force in the fascia -when affected by the sympathetic nervous system [14,15]. Back to my children and adolescents that are feeling stiff. ...
... Another interesting observation regarding the loose connective tissue is that it contains a lot of interoceptors [14,15]. Interoceptors are part of our sensory system that gives us the opportunity to feel our selves. ...
