Functional Atlas of the Human Fascial System

By far , the best book on fascia ever written! The pictures are high definition taken from fresh untreated cadavers! It’s a dream book for anyone interested in anatomy studies and fascia! It also makes a great gift for health professionals. This book is A MUST HAVE for all Bodyworkers, movement and manual therapists👍👍👍

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Dr Stecco's atlas shows us, through numerous high-quality color photographs of fresh unembalmed subjects, the myofascial relationships that previously had to be inferred from multiple sources. Focusing on the applications to clinical practice, this book will become an essential reference for therapists, and part of the curriculum for many manual therapy training programs, including ours.

This is an excellent new text which shows physical and neurological relationships in the human moment system and fundamentally changes the way we understand and evaluate movement and pain. We have know for some time that the assessment of structure alone (general orthopedics) does not correlate well to pain or function. That has lead some to assume the causes were due to psychosocial factors. Others assume the problems without a clear structural cause is "brain pain" with potentially little relationship to the periphery. This work makes it clear that we need to take a new look at how we assess the physical body and integrate that with the new information from studies of the brain.

My wife is enjoying the book.

I’ll just go ahead and say this should be required reading for and student of human movement. Worth every virtual page it takes up.

Fabulous. A major and much needed step forward in scholarly description of the human fascial system. So beautifully written and presented that it is a delight to read, and is likely to make lots of sense to a wide variety of readers (academic and non-academic).

Great book, very in depth

Sensacional

Dieses Buh zeigt wie wichtig Faszien sind und welche Rolle sie im Körper übernehmen. Der Mediziner sei es der Physiotherapeut, der Osteopath oder der Rolfer bekommt hier einen visuellen Einblick in das Innere des Körpers und speziell wie und wo die Faszien sich auf den Muskeln und Organen bewegen. Auch bei einer Op kann man den Einshnitt besser überlegt ansetzen...Ein Muss Buch !!!

Excellent information, in depth as you would expect from an atlas

La force de ce livre est dans le nombre de photos de l'intérieur de notre corps humain, commentées avec soin par une spécialiste des fascias. Ce livre est cher, mais je voulais voir de telles photos et j'en ai eu pour mon investissement ! On rentre littéralement dans le corps humain en de très nombreux endroits, et on nous explique comment se situer, quoi voir. Je conseille à tous ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur notre corps !

Incisive, essential - highest recommendation! Dr. Carla Stecco has produced an elegant, illuminating, clinically oriented Atlas which I believe should be an essential companion to any classical anatomy atlas (eg: Gray/Netter, etc) in medical/healthcare education. (I also highly recommend Luigi Stecco’s “Physiology of the Muscular Fascia,” 2016) This atlas is groundbreaking, in my opinion, as we cannot fully understand anatomy and physiology, in health nor in disease, without the context of the fascial “system” - fascia not only “knits” everything together structurally, but research supports its role as a functional “system” - adaptive and essential in ways we are only beginning to understand (autonomic, myoskeletal, neurohormonal, immune, lymphatic processes, to name a few). Dr. Stecco’s atlas is concise, but contains an abundance of information and insight into the evolving understanding of human fascia, with reverence for the wisdom and work of the anatomists and teachers throughout history who laid the foundation for her work. I am very compelled by the vision of Dr. JC Guimberteau and others in the world of fascia research, that there are “no layers,” the tissue is “constitutive” - I see this continuity and complexity, though I am still early in my study of fascia/re-learning anatomy and physiology in this context - that said, Dr. Stecco et al’s detailed gross and histological examination and characterization of the fascial anatomy has been an essential bridge between what I learned in classical anatomy/medical school and what I call “anatomy 2.0” (fascia research) continues to reveal, providing a terrific framework for a fellow physician to understand the critical nature of fascia(e) - in my opinion. Absolutely terrific atlas! (The nomenclature, like fascia itself, seems to need continual “adaptation” as the research shows us more about this constitutive, complex, essential web…this is why I use quotation marks for “system” or “fascia(e)”)