{"id":211,"date":"2012-02-24T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-05-08T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:27:06","slug":"passive-strength-part-2-what-is-connective-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Passive strength (part 2): What is connective tissue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">Last time, I talked about good technique, the kind where you can be simultaneously strong and relaxed (or better put, <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">effortlessly strong<\/span><\/em>), and how this comes about through engaging the passive strength of connective tissue.\u00a0 Connective tissue is a term which actually refers to lots of different structures within the body. However, all these structures act together to form the structural framework, to which the \u201cother bits\u201d hang on.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">Some parts of this structural framework involve connections between components which are close together.\u00a0 For example <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">tendons<\/span><\/em> join muscle to bone, and <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">ligaments<\/span><\/em> join neighbouring bones together (they also hold your internal organs in place within your body).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_210\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/connective-tissue.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210  \" title=\"connective tissue\" src=\"http:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/connective-tissue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/connective-tissue.jpg 599w, https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/connective-tissue-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many separate muscles covered in fascia, or a single sheet of fascia with many groups of muscle fibres embedded within?<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">Other parts of this framework connect across big distances, for example <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">fascia<\/span><\/em>, which envelops each muscle, and joins it to its neighbours.\u00a0 When most people see the picture above, they focus on the many, separate muscles (which appear red).\u00a0 However, there is another way of interpreting the picture, which is to see a single, continuous head-to-toe bodysuit of fascia, with muscle fibres embedded within.\u00a0 This bodysuit is translucent, appearing white where it is thick, and as a sheen over areas where the embedded muscle fibres are densely packed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">There are many other examples of connective tissue, but the key idea is that it is <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">continuous<\/span><\/em> and goes <em><span style=\"font-family: ArialMT, sans-serif;\">everywhere<\/span><\/em>. \u00a0This means that connective tissue allows things which happen in one part of your body to influence many other areas of your body, over both short and long distances. \u00a0As we&#8217;ll see next time, this can be both good and bad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, I talked about good technique, the kind where you can be simultaneously strong and relaxed (or better put, effortlessly strong), and how this comes about through engaging the passive strength of connective tissue.\u00a0 Connective tissue is a term &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yantheosteopath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}