594: Understanding Your Fascia with David Lesondak
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Think of your muscles like ground beef, and fascia like plastic wrap that creates a scaffolding like structure in, around, and through the muscle. Fascia is one of the most abundant connective tissues in your body, and like all tissues, it’s susceptible to injury, pain, and dysfunction. Despite its prevalence, fascia research remains nascent, so it’s worthwhile for anyone interested in their body to learn more. On this week's show, you´ll meet a fascia expert who will help you better understand this essential connective tissue.
Listen and learn:
- Why delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is usually caused by pain in your fascia more than muscle pain
- How fascia is affected by compression, shearing, and stretching
- The role of hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid) in fascial health
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
David Lesondak is a Structural Integrator at UPMC's Center for Integrative Medicine. He is the author of the book, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Fasha is one of the most abundant types of connective tissues in your body. |
| 0:06.5 | If you think of your muscles like hamburger or meat and fasha being the connective tissue like plastic wrap that wraps around in and |
| 0:15.4 | through your muscles like scaffolding it gives it shape and form. |
| 0:19.6 | Faucia has lots of sensory nerves and so it's very much involved in lots of |
| 0:24.1 | different pain processes in the body and fascia can be healthy and functional and |
| 0:29.9 | very often dysfunctional and when you go to get body work done, very often manual therapists are attempting to work, |
| 0:37.4 | not just on your muscles but on your fascia as well. The combined tissues often referred to as musculofosial or myofoshel. |
| 0:46.0 | On this week's podcast, we will deep dive into this connective tissue, which will hopefully be relevant for you if you are a person who does yoga, moving, exercising, injuries, soreness, |
| 0:57.0 | any of the above. |
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| 1:43.2 | Welcome everyone, it's Lucas here. |
| 1:46.0 | Today's shows called Understanding Your Flasha, and I am joined here with David Lassondick. |
| 1:50.7 | David is a structural integrator at UPMC's Center for Integrative Medicine. |
| 1:55.0 | He wrote a book. It's called Fasha, what it is and why it matters. We'll link up to it in |
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