Terminology
This alternative medicine emphasizes physical manipulation of the body’s muscle tissue and bones and serves as the roots of myofascial massage.
What is osteopathy?
This person developed a connective tissue massage, known as Bindgewebsmassage, in the 1920s.
Who is Elizabethe Dicke?
This substance lubricates and allows for cellular diffusion.
What is ground substance or the matrix?
This describes the two types of fascia.
This technique addresses superficial fascia in the layers of the skin.
What is skin rolling?
This term, coined by a doctor of osteopathy in 1960s, describes evaluating and resolving fascial restrictions in the body.
What is myofascial release?
This doctor coined the first fascial treatment terminology in the 1960s.
Who is Dr. Robert Ward?
This is the primary structure of connective tissue.
What is collagen?
This is the primary purpose of elastin fibers.
What is elasticity?
This technique was developed by James Cyriax and is intended to treat adhesions, address scar tissue, and prevent formation of new lesions.
This describes a structure that maintains integrity by continuously adjusting tension and compression in response to stimuli.
What is tensegrity?
This physical therapist developed myofascial massage and taught classes beginning in the 1980s.
Who is John Barnes?
This primary cell of connective tissue migrates to any place in the body and produces the specific connective tissue required to heal or repair local tissue.
What fibroblasts?
This is the primary function of collagen fibers in fascia.
This technique uses vertical pressure through muscle tissue, increasing gently as the fascia opens.
What is deep myofascial release?
Also accepted: excursion, fascial glide.
This describes the ability of a substance to soften as a result of warmth, pressure, and manipulation and to harden in the absence of the same.
This practitioner studied under Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, developing a system of myofascial treatment known as Anatomy Trains.
Who is Tom Meyers?
This cell of immune response secretes histamines and heparin.
What are mast cells?
This terminology refers to the fascia specifically related to muscle tissue.
What is myofascia?
This technique involves holding the limb out to the end point and then applying gentle movement to facilitate fascial release.
What is traction?
This describes the characteristic of a material to create and conduct electrical current under pressure or stress.
What is piezoelectricity?
This physician and surgeon founded osteopathic medicine, which led to myofascial treatment.
Who is Andrew Taylor Still?
This cell of connective tissue is responsible for phagocytosing damaged cells, foreign matter, and invading microorganisms.
What is macrophages?
This is the number of pounds per square inch that fascia can withstand.
What is 2,000lbs?
This technique involves one hand or forearm holding the muscle taut and the other gliding across the tissue as it releases.
What is pin-and-stretch?