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Educational avenues to promote fascia dialog in medical curricula

Journal: FASEB Journal Date: 2018/04, 32(S1):Pages: 237. doi: Subito , type of study: article

Full text    (https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2018.32.1_supplement.237.2)

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article [2538]
conference abstract [120]
curriculum [289]
fascia [298]
osteopathic medicine [2016]
USA [1630]

Abstract:

The concept of fascia belongs in medical training. It is important that all physicians be introduced to the continuum of connective tissue. Fascia serves as one of the body's fundamental “connectors”. Visualizing the amazing range of fascia at the gross level, from adipose to tendons, is a good first introduction for students in dissection or prosection. Teaching the role of dense connective tissue in compartmentalizing muscles and neurovascular bundles is a wonderful way to familiarize students with pattern recognition in gross anatomy. Without teaching fascia we might lose the opportunity to discuss planes and clefts for surgical access, muscle group actions and pathologies such as compartment syndrome. Fascia also serves as a means of providing students with a contextual environment for discussing the intricacies of signal transduction pathways and biochemical cycles. Without the extracellular matrix and the addition of cells to form fascia we lose the scaffolding for our physiological switchboard-operators critical in the day to day monitoring of homeostasis. This presentation will refer to the courses taught at Michigan State University School of Osteopathic Medicine as examples of approaches to demonstrate the significance of fascia in medicine. As long as one of the physician's goals remains to help their patients return to a state of homeostasis and well-being, fascia will have a place in medical curricula.


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