Fascia/Fibromyalgia Flashcards
What is fascia? Describe its activity, function, and primary origin.
Definition: Diffuse, irregular fibrous CT holding all tissues together
- Metabolically active -
- Innervated and vascularized
- Has contractile ability
- Critical to wound healing/repair
- Mesodermal origins
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) What is its location?
Deep to epidermis/dermis
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) Origin?
Somatic mesoderm
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) Constructed of what?
Loose/dense irregular CT w/ variable fat contect
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) Function?
Facilitates movement/immune surveillance, insulate, store fat
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) What muscles insert into it?
Facial muscles
Pannicular Fascia (Hypodermis) Name in the abdomen? Another name for it elsewhere?
Camper’s Fascia, superficial fascia
Investing Fascia
Two other names?
Axial/appendicular fascia, Deep Fascia
Investing fascia
Where does it fuse? What does it surround?
Fuses to panniculus peripherally extending out from the body having surrounded epaxial (dorsal deep spinal muscles) and hypaxial muscles (all other muscles)
Investing Fascia
Surrounds what structures?
Entire muscle fiber bundle (Epimysium) and intermuscular septa, Bones (periosteum), Tendons (peritendon), Sheaths of neurovascular bundles (e.g. axillary sheath)
Epaxial muscles groups are innervated by what nerve bundle?
Dorsal root peripheral nerve
Investing fascia are connected to which layers of fascia surrounding muscle?
All of them
Epi, peri, endomysium
What attaches the investing fascia to the periosteum?
Sharpey’s fibers
What four muscle’s fascia composes the thoracocolumbnar fascia?
Gluteus maximus
Gluteus medius
External oblique
Latissimus dorsi
What is a myofascial meridian?
e.g. Superficial back line
Single line of fascia connected from the toes to the eyebrows.
Meningeal fascia surrounds what?
CNS
Meningeal fascia is composed of what layers?
Dura and leptomeninges (arachnoid, pia mater)