Final key statements

The following is a list of conclusions and reflections drawn from the exploration and observation of living matter during many hours of intratissular endoscopy. They are also the result of many years of surgical experience, clinical cases and their evolution. You will find them in the book: “Architecture of the living fascia “Handspring Publishing”.

  • The continuous, permanent link between all the components of the microvacuolar system provides the architectural organization and fibrillar framework that explains and confirms the concept of structured form.
  • One of the aims of this research is to propose a new model that describes the structural framework of the human body and the basic architecture of living matter, in other words, a new structural ontology.
  • The living matter of our bodies is a unified whole.
  • At the mesoscopic level, the first observation of note is the continuity of tissue.
  • A connective tissue network exists throughout the body, from the macroscopic to the microscopic level, providing both fibrillar and histological continuity.
  • There are numerous cell-free spaces, but they are not empty spaces.
  • The organization of the multifibrillar and multimicrovacuolar framework of connective tissue, which is found everywhere in the body, is essentially irregular and fractal.
  • There are identifiable physical links between the skin surface and the deeper structures, which permit flexibility of the skin.
  • The epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium together form one continuous structure. In contrast to the lengthened, longitudinal, and parallel aspect of the muscle cells, their architecture is neither parallel nor regular.
  • The periosteum and bone are an integral part of the bodywide fibrillar network.
  • The microcirculation is an integral component of the multifibrillar network .
  • The fibrillar network exerts an undeniable mechanical influence on the cytoskeleton within the cell.
  • Is there an underlying order within the apparent disorder of these interlacing and interweaving fibers?
  • A living form has to be structured, but it also needs to be mobile, supple, adaptable, and self-sufficient.
  • There is total continuity between the cells and the intercellular spaces of the ECM.
  • The use of the irregular polyhedron as the fundamental unit of form seems to be a necessary consequence of the basic physical forces acting on living organisms.
  • The structural components of our tissues are in a permanent state of pre-existing endogenous tension. They form part of a “pre-stressed” network.
  • Fractalization adds another dimension to the chaotic aspect of living matter. Fractal structures lack regularity, but this irregularity is neither random nor arbitrary. There is regularity within the irregularity.
  • A scar does not have any functional use. Its sole purpose is to plug the gap in the damaged tissue.
  • Connective tissue is, in fact, the constitutive tissue. It not only links the different parts together, but it is the frame in which parts are developed.
  • Fascia could be this tensional, continuous fibrillar network within the body, extending from the surface of the skin to the nucleus of the cell. This global network is mobile, adaptable, fractal, and irregular; it constitutes the basic structural architecture of the human body.
  • Deterministic chaotic behavior is one of nature’s potential dynamic capabilities. It broadens the field of possible solutions, allows them to be explored more efficiently, and permits greater complexity.