Category - Tensegrity and Connective Tissue

Delves into how tensegrity principles apply to fascia’s role in structural health and movement. It discusses collagen, vitamin C, reflex integration, posture, and fascia’s impact on therapy, aiming to enhance understanding of the body’s structural and functional harmony

Structure and Function of Bone

For Manual Therapists conceptualizing bone is something of a challenge. Classical anatomy presents bone as a static, mineralized structure that treats loads as compressional, somewhat like a stack of bricks. The dynamic and self-healing...

Neck and Shoulder Issues

Four-legged animals have it easy. As they walk along, their ribs hang off of their spine like clothes on a clothesline, the weight of their torso helping to stretch out the joints and ligaments of their spines. Even our ape-like ancestors, who...

Undulation

BackgroundMoving around has always been at the top of every evolutionary “got to have” checklist. From Jellyfish to fish of all stripes, to land animals to us, improvements in locomotion confer a survival advantage. It is...

Cranial Joint Function

Eight bones together comprise our cranial vault. Often it is written in the U.S. (1) that by the age of 25 these bones have fused and that the skull has thus become in essence one large bone.  This description is thought based on early...

The Lymph System and Hanging by the Arms.

Our lymph system is a circulatory system not unlike our vascular system with one major difference, it doesn’t have a pump(heart). Lymph is also a return-only network, the vascular equivalent of veins, and uses our arteries to bring lymph...

Tensegrity

Kenneth Snelson: Tall Star, 2002 Definition: An independent structure made from discontinuous compressional members connected by tensional members. This mechanical concept was introduced by Kenneth Snelson and promoted by R. Buckminster Fuller...