Learning goals

Understand how fascia acts as a sensory for proprioception, 

Understand the functioning of the main four mechanoreceptor types in fasciae: Golgi-, Pacini-, Ruffini- and free nerve endings. Each with preferred location, mechanical sensitivity and expected physiological response. 

Understand how fascia acts as a sensory organ for interoception

Understand the main connections between fascial tonicity and the autonomic nervous system. 

Be able to skilffully stimulate Golgi receptors 

Be able to skilffully stimulate Ruffini receptors 

Be able to skilffully stimulate Pacini receptors 

Be able to skilffully stimulate Free Nerve Endings in the periost

Be able to include mindful micro movements of the patient during the hands-on work