Fascia: The Body s Remarkable, Functional Glue

There’s a connective tissue running all throughout your body that not only holds all your muscles and organs together, but also has sensory and mechanical properties that may explain some poorly understood medical phenomena. Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-14 Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRhiLzWZDQ&vl=en http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-high-jump-(male) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/41fe/980e0b8bc21eb2fa4ac7409eacbb05468945.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289814802_Fascia_The_Tensional_Network_of_the_Human_Body_The_science_and_clinical_applications_in_manual_and_movement_therapy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360859202000670 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360859202000761 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091473/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8231161 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185528 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23873006 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_and_text-book_of_human_anatomy_(1914-)_(20351394431).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray326.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achilles-tendon.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_breast-_its_anomalies,_its_diseases,_and_their_treatment_(1917)_(14570264690).jpg