In myofascial manipulation an immediate tissue release is often felt under the working hand. This amazing feature has traditionally been attributed to mechanical properties of the connective tissue. Yet studies have shown that either much stronger forces or longer durations would be required for a permanent viscoelastic deformation of fascia. Fascia nevertheless is densely innervated by mechano...

Femoral nerve palsy has been reported after percutaneous ilioinguinal field infiltration with general anaesthesia for inguinal herniorrhaphy. The mechanism whereby this could occur was studied in cadaver dissections. It was found that the plane between the transversus abdominis muscle and the transversalis fascia was continuous laterally with the tissue plane deep to the iliacus fascia, which i...

Although total mesorectal excision reduces the local recurrence rate in comparison to other surgical approaches, the occurrence of local relapse is still common, especially in cases when there is malignant infiltration of the circumferential resection margin. Mesorectal fascia is an important prognostic and diagnostic factor and it may be argued that mesorectal fascia represents the circumferen...

Abstract Introduction Tympanoplasty is the main treatment of mucosal type chronic suppurative otitis media. Objective The aim present study was to compare clinical outcomes in terms healing and audiological two groups. authors used single layer graft (perichondrium with cartilage island) one group double grafts island composite plus temporalis fascia) were second group. Methods Forty patients c...

Locomotor slings is a model which recognises that muscles and their investing fascia are frequently interconnected, with fibres blending from one muscle to the next. Groups of muscles and their fascia may be related by direct anatomical continuity, whereby a chain of muscles and their fascia are interconnected in a relatively continuous line. This chain of anatomically interconnected myofasciae...

Elastic energy returned from passive-elastic structures of the lower limb is fundamental in lowering the mechanical demand on muscles during running. The purpose of this study was to investigate the two length-modulating mechanisms of the plantar fascia, namely medial longitudinal arch compression and metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) excursion, and to determine how these mechanisms modulate stra...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to determine whether the sonographic appearance of the plantar fascia is predictive of the treatment (ie, pain) response in patients receiving supportive therapy for proximal plantar fasciitis. This study was a secondary analysis of data obtained from a randomized controlled trial of ambulatory adults, which examined the efficacy of 3 different...

UNLABELLED The ideal approach for the treatment of glottal insufficiency remains a challenge for laryngologists. AIM This experimental study assessed the histological changes and fibrosis caused by autologous fascia lata grafts into the rabbit voice muscle. STUDY DESIGN A clinical and experimental study. METHODS A 0.2 × 0.2 cm fragment of autologous fascia lata was grafted into the right ...