Myofascia is currently the hottest topic in somatics. It is the packing material, the bubble wrap of the body, surrounding muscle, organ, bones and securing their positions. It also carries the interstitial fluids, and has a critical influence on the immune and hormonal systems. So, in order to be effective, all manual body work must create change in the myofascia, for myofascia is central to any lasting therapeutic intervention. The great value of The Endless Web, a book twenty years in the making, is that it provides the information necessary to work with myofascia, and is the only body work book to treat the myofascial system as an integral system of the body in its own terms.

Myofascia is currently the hottest topic in somatics. It is the packing material, the bubble wrap of the body, surrounding muscle, organ, bones and securing their positions. It also carries the interstitial fluids, and has a critical influence on the immune and hormonal systems. So, in order to be effective, all manual body work must create change in the myofascia, for myofascia is central to any lasting therapeutic intervention. The great value of The Endless Web, a book twenty years in the making, is that it provides the information necessary to work with myofascia, and is the only body work book to treat the myofascial system as an integral system of the body in its own terms.

1998-12-25 Great view of connective tissue as a physical structure

Before I read this book I had never really considered the functioning of connective tissue as a "web-like" structure within which bone and muscle articulate. The authors contend, starting with embrionic anatomy and onward, that the c.t. forms a bed within which cells differentiate. From this view point of c.t. being a primary base for physical form, we are shown how all parts of the web are connected, and create "bands" that ideally are nether too tight or too loose. I didn't know much about Rolfing either, but apparently this bodywork deals specificly with c.t. Good book, great publishing company.