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A Brief Summary of the Facial System

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"You have a body and you are working with it." - Thomas Myers.  "Movement is food, movement is medicine." - Thomas Myers "Has anyone taught you how to use a chair?" - Thomas Myers   What is the Fascial System? The “Rules to the Game” developed by Tom Myers help maintain professional consistency as we discover and present new myofascial lines. In simple terms, the rules claim that an “active myofascial meridian must proceed in a consistent direction and depth via direct fibrous connections capable of force transmission." In more details they state:  1. Myofascial Meridians must proceed in a fairly consistent direction, without jumping levels, or crossing over intervening planes of fascia.  2. Myofascial Meridians must enmesh themselves into the inner osteoarticular wrapping (i.e. the muscle’s epimysium continued with the bone’s periosteum).  3. Myofascial Meridians may join and diverge like switches at one junction, multiple junctions, or a roundh...