The Fascial Breath

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.

Fascial Nomenclature: Update 2021, Part 1

“…The cell is able to withdraw these thin filaments through contractile forces, thanks to the type II myosin that flows on the actin; the information that returns to the cell allows the mechano-metabolic message, also through the depolymerization of microtubules and actin, to reach the cell nucleus and move chromosomes and stimulate cytokinesis [49]. Considering that the muscle fibers (smooth and striated) are interpenetrated in the different structures of the organ itself, are fused with collagen, or are adjacent to multiple structures (bone, visceral, muscular, nervous, vascular, and lymphatic), and are the same fibers which allow the distribution of the mechanical and then metabolic tension felt or created, we can consider the contractile fibers as fascia [50].…”

Phylogenetics of the Fascial System

“…In bipeds, it starts to assume an important role in support, with greater influence on cardiac performance. It also plays an important role in tensioning the pharynx and larynx, participating in events such as speech and vomiting [ 34 ]. The action of reflux control by the diaphragm is enhanced in the bipedal position.…”

“…At the horizontal level, the change in the organization of the sphenoid promotes a change in the diaphragm of the sella turcica, which represents one of the parts formed by the invagination of the meningeal dura mater, where the pituitary is located. The tentorium cerebelli represents the fourth dural organization [ 34 ]. It presents a horizontal arrangement fixing laterally on the petrous crests of the temporal, previously on the lower wings of the sphenoid, more precisely in the anterior clinoid processes.…”