1:07 - 2:56 - Intro & What You will hear on this Podcast
- Niek Wulkea Intro
- What Google will give You about Fascia
- What You will hear on this Podcast, Theory to influence Practice
- 6 Foundational Principles
2:57 - 9:02 - Principle #1 Foreshadowing
- House Analogy of Fascia
- Exterior Wall = Skin, Superficial Fasica, Interior Wall = Bones, Muscles, Organs, Cupbards = Departments of the Organ, Bowls & Plates = Fascia that wraps Cells, Contents of Bowls & Plates = Cellular Fascia (Cytoskeleton), Air = Fascia that is inside the nucleus of the Cell
- Fascia can mechanically turn Genes ON or OFF
- Fibers connect everything in the house, the house is actually a mess to move around in.
- Fascia is fibrous networks in gelatinous mixture
- Analogy of Fascia Ends
- Compositions & density of Gel & Fibers can change
- Fascia is the Housing & the Internal Support Structure
9:03 - 13:50 - Principle #1: Fascia is the Housing & the Internal Support Structure & Principle #2: Fascial Adaptation is a response to the most frequently used Pattern
- Moving in Your House Analogy
- Fascial Efficiency in the Fibers
- Collapsing out of position is doing something, You are never doing nothing.
- Why You walk a certain way (it’s not just from Your Parents)
- Why creating change in Your Fascia can be difficult or easy.
- Why babies are so pliable.
- Fascia provides a window of opportunity to change that is always open.
- Fibers are always being degraded or built up again.
13:51 - 20:04 - How the most frequently used patterns can drive unhealthy fascia
- What Fibroblast do
- Thomas Myers Fibroblast reference video
- Fibroblasts recreate Your Body
- Healthy vs. Unhealthy Fascia
- Drivers of Unhealthy Fascia; Joints out of IAOR, Chronic Tension, Instability under abrupt & acute load
- Energy Leaks, Energy Transfer in Movement
- What Energy Leaks is coming from
- An Energy leak is a re-direction of Energy
20:05 - 22:14 - Fibroblasts Overview
- Fibroblasts are mesenchymal
- Fibroblasts can receive biochemical and mechanical messages
- They are primarily known to create and change fibrous composition; may not be primary job.
22:15 - 26:29 - Fibroblast Properties and Function; why Youu need to pay attention to the direction You are going
- Fibroblasts have ability to build themselves on demand; driven by high need of structural re-organization.
- What is de-differentiation? How it’s different from stem cell differentiation.
- Community Building Analogy
- Other cells can be “reverse-engineered” to become Fibroblasts
- Fascia Principles Review
26:30 -29:38 - Principle #3 You need to Move
- Whether You’re moving or not externally, You are always moving internally
- Micro-movements are always happening, gravity example
- Everything has to move on the inside to optimize function on the outside
- The focus is to facilitate internal movement
- The Movement needs to be pulsing & rhythmic
- Rhythm drives the symmetry in Fascia at the cellular level.
- Rhythmicity drives self-organization, releae control to prevent being spread too thin.
29:39 - 34:59 Quality of Movement & Movement Sensitivity
- Practical Tip #1: If movement desensitized, any movemnt is good
- You can maintain Internal Movement while being externally still.
- Level Up #1: The purpose of External Fascial Movement is to create an expansive movement library.
- Level Up #2: Tackle the Rate Limiting Step, internal intuitive road map
- Good external movement maintains balanced internal movement, good internal movement drives balanced external movement.
- The importance of Biological Design
- Movement should revolve arund moving towards Biological Design
35:00 - 36:04 - Dancers and their ability to Move well + Close-Out
- They have consistently moved towards Biologically Design
- The rate at which they can move towards Biological Design is fast
- They don’t have structural hardware to get over.
RESOURCES
De-Differentiation Photo
Thomas Myers Fibroblast Slug Video - Google Presentation
Shape & Structure (Icosahedron)Blog Post - niekwulkeahealth.com
Fibrocytes as a Fibroblast Pre-cursor Research Study
