5 ST & MFR Lecture Flashcards
Soft Tissue Techniques directly applied where?
Soft tissue preparation facilitates what?
Applied to muscular and fascial structures of body
Facilitates improvement of articular motion
What is soft tissue?
What is included?
Living tissues of the body other than bone
Fascia, Muscles, Organs, Nerves, Vasculature, Lymphatic
Fascia
What is it?
Composed of?
Function?
What is it not?
Complete system with blood supply, fluid drainage, & innervations (largest organ system in body)
Composed of irregularly arranged fibrous elements of varying density
Involved in tissue protection and healing of surrounding systems
It is not Tendons, Ligaments, Aponeuroses
Fascia is Omnipresent
There is a myofascialarthroidal continuity throughout the body
Describe continuity of Fascia
Perimysium (Fascia) –> Peritendium –> Periosteum
Pannicular Fascia
Outermost layer derived from Somatic mesenchyme and surrounds entire body with exception of orifices
Outer layer is adipose & Inner layer is membranous and adherent to outer portion
Axial & Appendicular Fascia
Internal to Pannicular layer; fused to Panniculus and surrounds all muscles, periosteum of bone, and peritendon of tendons
Meningeal Fascia
Surrounds nervous system including the Dura
Visceral Fascia
Surrounds body cavities (pleural, pericardial, & peritoneum)
Fascia is Omnipotent
Contractile components
Healing components
Provides for mobility and stability of MSK system
Myofibroblasts
Macrophages, Mast Cells
Fascia is Omniscient
20% of cutaneous mechanoreceptors supplying skin have receptive fields in subcutaneous tissue (loose fascia)
75% of stretch receptor free endings for muscles and proprioception in fascia
Viscoelastic Material
Any material that deforms according to rate of loading and deformity
Stress-Strain Relationship
Stress is force that attempts to deform CT structure
Strain is percentage of deformation of CT
Hysteresis
Difference between loading and unloading characteristics represents energy that is lost in CT system; energy loss is Hysteresis
Creep
CT under sustained, constant load (below failure threshold), will elongate (deform) in response to load