How Fascia Redefines Our Understanding of Acupuncture Meridians

Everything exists in what my colleague the biophysics researcher Dr. James Oschman, in his book Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, calls a living matrix—in layers of interconnectedness.

“Another and more specific aspect is the innervation and direct connection of fascia with the autonomic nervous system. It now appears that the fascial tonus might be influenced and regulated by the state of the autonomic nervous system. Plus and this aspect should have ramifications for your work - any intervention in the fascial system might have

It revolutionises our view of anatomy since modern technology reveals that fascia is not only ubiquitous (everywhere), but sensory in nature (see Ch. 9) and crucial to any part of any muscle connecting to any part of any bone in its locality (not to mention its neighbouring muscles).

Apart from anything else, scientific research is discovering new proportions and ratios for assigning senses and sensory responses to the forces that travel through our tissues in motion. The discovery that the fascia is one of the largest and richest sensory organs of the body3 has made many people start to reconsider the traditional view of how t

‘We must remember Schleip. Our fascial system is constantly rearchitecting itself and, in as little as seven months, our whole system could be completely renewed.’ The bulb brightened as I considered the consequences of this statement. Fascia is fluid. It moves and contracts. It also suffers if we let it be stagnant.