The human body is the source of many mysteries, and a great deal of pseudoscience, quackery and outright fraud. Fields like reflexology and homeopathy have withered under science’s spotlight glare and acupuncture, once hailed as a whole new medical discipline, clings on the borderland of semi-respectability. But occasionally interesting ideas do break through into the mainstream, and medicine is now taking an interest in the little-known structure known as the fascia.
From the Latin for ‘band’, fascia are bands or sheets of connective tissue that enclose, stabilise and separate muscles and other internal organs. In the past, medicine has
