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Fascia
Fibrocollagenous CT, its morphology shaped by tensional loading. Fascia
surrounds and interpenetrates all other soft-tissues, bones, nerves, circulatory
vessels and organs. In its various forms, fascia serves to connect, separate and
store/provide propulsion energy. Fascia is highly innervated and therefore is
considered to play a significant role in proprioception and interoception and can
be a potential pain generating tissue. By shifting its fluid dynamics (e.g. changes
in ground substance viscosity), fascia can alter its viscoelastic properties,
rendering fascia capable of instantly changing its properties in response to
demand (e.g. mechanical strain). This feature of fascia is theorized to be the
mechanism by which some of the tissue changes felt during and after manual
therapy occurs (e.g. softening, improved pliability and mobility).