Skin, fascia and scars

Usually, articles in scientific journals are pretty dry. However, I ran across one about fascia and scars that had rather poetic phrasing. Here are a few of my favorite quotations from Skin, fascias and scars: symptoms and systemic connections by Bordoni and Zanier.

The skin surface is a means to communicate with the nervous system, to understand it, and to give therapeutic information.

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The fascia is the philosophy of the body, meaning each body region is connected to another, whereas osteopathy is the philosophy of medicine: the entire human body must work in harmony.

They also say what Ida Rolf did, but more technically, that everything is connected and where the pain is may not be where the problem is.

When there is a fascial injury, there is a fascial dysfunction. A physiological alteration in any part of the body will affect, as a result, everything that is covered by the connective sheet: the symptom will arise in the area concerned with the alteration or, in contrast, in a distal area, when this is not capable of adapting to the new stressor.

The article also talks about other concepts that are part of of the thinking around Structural Integration, such as the theory that skin and fascia have an impact on emotions and viscera (internal organs). I am glad to learn about some of the examples in this article that support what my experience has been with clients in SI sessions.