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Review
. 2019 Jul 23;11(7):e5208.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.5208.

The Fascial Breath

Bruno Bordoni  1 , Marta Simonelli  2 , Bruno Morabito  3
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The Fascial Breath

Bruno Bordoni et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

The word diaphragm comes from the Greek (διάϕραγμα), which meant something that divides, but also expressed a concept related to emotions and intellect. Breath is part of a concept of symmorphosis, that is the maximum ability to adapt to multiple functional questions in a defined biological context. The act of breathing determines and defines our holobiont: how we react and who we are. The article reviews the fascial structure that involves and forms the diaphragm muscle with the aim of changing the vision of this complex muscle: from an anatomical and mechanistic form to a fractal and asynchronous form. Another step forward for understanding the diaphragm muscle is that it is not only covered, penetrated and made up of connective tissue, but the contractile tissue itself is a fascial tissue with the same embryological derivation. All the diaphragm muscle is fascia.

Keywords: breathing; diaphragm; fascia; myofascial; osteopathic; physiotherapy.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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