Faszien New Paths at the University of Ulm

Faszien: New Paths at the University of Ulm: From 21 to 26 March 2010, an interdisciplinary Fascia Research Course took place for the first time at the University of Ulm.

From 21 to 26 March 2010, the University of Ulm hosted for the first time an interdisciplinary "Fascia Research Course" worldwide. For six days, clinicians and researchers from a variety of disciplines had the opportunity to experience the diversity of the fascia in operations, dissection of animals and humans, lectures and workshops. Understandable that a few days after the announcement in 2009, the course was already fully booked. The participants and lecturers came from the USA, Taiwan, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Norway, Denmark, among others, and also exchanged information with each other during the week, which was part of the declared concept of the course. The whole thing was organized by the so-called "Fascia Research Project", which exists as a joint project of the Department of Anesthesia and the Institute of Physiology andto which among other things Dr. Robert Schleip, dr. Werner Klingler and dr. Belong to Adjo anger. Novel ideas and research were what shaped the picture of the event. Many therapists basically took new approaches to clinical activity.

Novel anatomy
Until now, it was the divisive and the singular, which so far predominantly represented the approach of the anatomical representation, so new ways were presented here in Ulm. The clinical anatomist Andry Vleeming, from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Rolfer and developer of the Anatomy Trains diagnostic and therapeutic model, Tomas Myers, and anatomic researcher and therapist Carla Stecco, from the University of Padua, put the connective element at the center of her anatomical designs. Myers was able to demonstrate impressively how two muscles (Serratus anterior and Mm. Rhomboideii), which according to previous knowledge attach to the scapula, still strongly adhere to each other after removal of the scapula. Vleeming demonstrated live on the specimen at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Ulm how a lateral tendon of the thigh (tensor fasciae lata) passes into the knee capsule. Carla Stecco's studies show that the outer layer of vessels (adventitia) has continuity with the superficial fascia layer.

Tensegrity and fascia
These proportions were even more impressive with the videos of the French hand surgeon dr. Claude Guimberteau. He penetrated the fascia layers of the living with an endoscope and made spectacular pictures and films. In Ulm he presented a just completed six-minute excerpt of his latest work. He pointed to the ubiquity of the water in the connective tissue structures. His photographs are reminiscent of the so-called "tensegrity" structure of the us inventor, architect, designer and philosopher Richard Buckminster Fuller. He is one of the so-called "biomorphic" architects. Biomorph means "shaped by the forces of natural life". A more well-known representative of this approach is the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who wrote his diploma thesis on the structure of a chicken bone decades ago. The physicist and movement researcher Daniéle-Claude Martin PhD taught participants how to transfer the model to the human organism, or its structures, by building models together. In the lectures the English osteopath Graham Scarr presented his tensegrity model on the human skull and possible consequences in pathology.

Models from the Fascia Research Project
The researchers of the Faszienlabor in Ulm also presented some of their work. So Dr. Adjo Zorn presents a novel gait analysis, taking into account the strong connective tissue of the back (fascia thoracolumbalis). He backed his remarks with videos of a dog who had been born and walked upright without front legs and videos of so-called "swingwalkers" from Africa. Zorn argued that our body does not consume energy through up and down and balancing, as previously claimed. But on the contrary, that the elastic movement has an energy-efficient effect on our organism, or has made this the movement so own.
Dr. In his lecture, Werner Klingler presented the effects of heat on the fasciae. In his lecture, Robert Schleip combined fascination work and research with anthropology. Interesting here is that in the body training leads the way to the fascia. The transmission through the fascia during activities such as running and swimming is no longer news there. The muscle-oriented training deviates more and more the fascia and the model of the "Long Chains" oriented training. Magazines such as "Men's Health" have taken up these ideas and are starting to implement them and bring them closer to the readers. Actually, these are gymnastic exercises from the generation of our grandparents, who are thus regained access to modern training systems.

Homeokinesia instead of homeostasis
In this diversity of ideas, concepts and research during the six days in Ulm, two decisive points were repeatedly raised:

1. Mechanical aspects of biochemistry and
2. The connection and recognition of relationships in the human organism have long been neglected.

So, finally, the common thinking model of homeostasis (self-regulation) was juxtaposed with the new concept of homeokinesis (achieving equilibrium in bodily functions through dynamic processes). For the previous concept of homeostasis is immediately disturbed by a rotation of the earth in a self-regulation of the organism. The overall novel concept of this course promises to bring movement and connection within the therapeutic community and clinicians and researchers - as well as the fascia connect our organism. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy, 05.04.2010)

Additional information:
Terra autonomica - The world of self-organized creatures
Biotensegrity by Stephen M. Levin, M.D.