When asked to summarise and synthesise all the various bits of information flying around the Fifth International Fascial Research Congress into a bit of advice, Dr Frank Willard (from the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, by the way, over here in Berlin with us) said, simply, “Exercise.” So many of the studies show… Read more
From Tom: One of the most interesting (and unsung – it was stuck off in a corner and not publicised near enough) exhibits at the Berlin Fascia Research Congress (FRC) November 14 and 15 was the new fascial presentations from the BodyWorlds plastinarium, a few hours south of Berlin in Guben. (News flash: Anatomy Trains… Read more
Tom responds to this post: https://functionalfascia.com/anatomy-trains-fact-or-fiction/ Anatomy Trains, Fact or Fiction? I’m sorry I haven’t seen this until now, since it was posted long ago – it’s always a pleasure to enter the lists to joust with Julian. I hear a bit of Gil Hedley in this line of thinking too, another dissection artist with… Read more
OK, I’ll admit it – when I go to a baseball game – or worse, watch one on TV – I take along a chessboard for some excitement. I realise that will be anathema to most of my friends who are rabid Red Sox fans, since I live in the Northeast. But Andrew Benintendi –… Read more
Carla’s young friends, Catarina and Sheng Lei (glad to speak a little English in the midst of his sojourn in Italia), took me to a geological museum, which was rococo in the extreme ’round the assembled fossils, but I was distracted, still among the anatomists. In another life, I would play Narcissus and hoard old… Read more
Padua – setting for The Taming of the Shrewˆ – is also the crown jewel of universities, the oldest continuous institution of learning in the world, older even than Oxford. Padua’s population is one-quarter students. I was permitted to take only a few few photos inside the University of Padua and none in the… Read more
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