Q&A with Tom: TMJ and Myofascial Influence

Dear Mr. Myers, I‘m writing a publication about TMD (temporomandibular joint disorders, also called TMJ) and body posture. A part of my descriptions treated osteopathy and myofascial systems I‘m looking for information about TMD. I have purchased your book, but there is no information about this anatomy part in it. There is a myofascial influence?… Read more

New Scientific Evidence for the Anatomy Trains

While at Robert Schleip’s Fascia Summer School – held in Leipzig this year – I was very pleased to have a talk with Dr Jan Wilke on his research review into the myofascial continuities.  Here is a new article he gave me about the specific Lateral Line connection between the so-called ilio-TIBIAL tract and the… Read more

Fascia Summer School

You cannot see his face but that’s the inimitable Willem Fourie of Capetown holding a tensegrity model in which one of the struts (upper left) has been replaced by a set of smaller tensegrities (mimicking Stecco’s ‘densification’), and one of the tension struts (lower right) replaced by another set of microtensegrities (mimicking fibrosis). You can… Read more

Does Posture Change Your Hormones? The Cuddy Story

The Cuddy effect – that holding a power pose (or its opposite) affects hormone levels and thus social engagement, often within minutes, instilling you with confidence (a la ‘fake it til you make it’ or ‘whistle a happy tune’) – has been an article of faith with bodyworkers since her TED talk first appeared. There… Read more