Raw Transcript: Did We Miss out 20% of our Body and Why understanding Fascia is Critical | Hyperarch Fascia Training

Okay. So, today we have a distinguished guest uh Dr. Fabina Silva. She recently was uh elevated to the position of president of Fasia Research Society which I'm a member of and I met her uh in the last uh congress meeting in Montreal. So, I'm very happy that we reconnected um two years later ahead of another uh fashion research congress meeting in Louisiana this year. Yes. Yes. And we are really happy and excited to be there because with three years we have a lot of new things to talk and discover about fascia. Right. Right. And then and then I suggest everybody who are interested in this type of new information which is the the greatest and latest science uh if you're interested in your health and your fitness and performance uh you should be attending right you should purchase a ticket and uh we're going to have the website I mean the uh information in the uh on the bottom of this so people uh who want to travel to Louisiana which which is a very very nice and warm city they never been to uh they can do so right very good so um yeah can you first uh talk about you know your research area and how did you get into you know this fascial space yeah I'm a physotherapist I live in Brazil and uh I started studying fascia when I was undergrad hat and I really like it because my background is manual therapy and after I did my master in epidemiology and I started to teach in a physio graduation school here and I was with uh students for 14 years and one of my tasks on This was to do supervision in in research. And uh one of my students she asked me well I want to study about foam roller and uh the work with runners. So we did this research and I presented this in the connect congress in Y University in 2017. Yeah, that's where Dr. Robert Schle is in. Yes, it was my first presentation about fascia and after this I started to to be at the at this field and started to uh study more and present more researches and etc. And now I'm doing my PhD and I will put together chronic pain uh fascia with stiffness and heart variability and so the autonomic nervous system fascia and chronic pain. So it's it's something that I I love and I'm always uh beside the the teaching beside teaching I'm always with patients every week because I'm a PT and I work uh with chronic issues at the most for spinal chronic issues and uh I think that is it's good to put together the research and the clinical practice And that's it. It's why I'm this field because I first because I love and on second because I'm try to navigate in between research and the clinical practice. Oh very good. Very good. The fascia is that is that uh uh network is that gel that uh integrates everything. Um yes. So, so what do what what do you say to for example the the people who don't know about fascia um and you know for example in the um the mainstream strength conditioning you look at the anatomy in the anatomy it doesn't have the fascia in there it just have the muscle attachment like what do you what do you say how do you present this information for example to a strength coach um and and the importance of the fascia in in the anatomy. Yeah. Um well, this person is missing a piece of the whole scenario, right? Because I what I try to explain is that when you look for origin and insertion or insertion from on one point of the mus muscle and the other point, what links these two points together is f FA because uh every muscle in our body have his one fascia his his own fascia like the epineial fascia. But when uh the muscles end this and at the edge of the muscle and the tendon the tendon the continuity is a myofascial expansion and through the tendon and to link with the the bone bone there is fascia too. It's my my first explanation and other thing that I try to explain is that for doing something like uh uh kick one ball or stand up or walk or etc. We we can't do this just uh firing one muscle. We need to fire one group. We need to work with the nervous system too. And so I try to explain the the concept of the myofascial chains that are groups of muscles that work together. Not just the old concept about the antagonists. Oh, this muscle do this and the other do in a opposite direction. And I try to explain that they work together. Uh when you try to strength your biceps for example, your triceps is working together and so it's really difficult to isolate muscles activity in human body in our body. So I try to explain this and um give for people this concept that fascia hold everything everything together and connected and helps the muscle to transmit part of the force that is generated inside the muscle. M so and this is important because the muscles go uh they spend a lot of energy and fast. So how you can explain that one person can walk for hours and just depending of the muscle energy. So there is another system that do like a uh like a spring that keeps the energy inside that is fascia and tendons and when we walk this system release the energy is slowly. So it's why we can maintain a lot of activities for a long time. If we depends just for the muscles we we can't do uh some tasks for a long time just depending of the energy of the muscles contraction right uh so I'm going to play a devil's advocate uh so some strength strength coach will say well the uh you know the muscle contract the fascia you know it doesn't contract so therefore it's it's the the muscle is more important. What What do you What do you say to that? Yeah, something that uh uh we learned uh like I since 2019 is that fascia contracts but fascia contracts uh with a contraction more similar to autonomic nervous system like a more similar to visceral components and circulatory system. So it's a contraction that holds everything together that uh is one part of something that we we call our postural tonus. So this contraction of fascia uh every time every second keeps us or or helps us to be against gravity. For example, it's like our postural tonus. And when the muscle generate [Music] [Music]