Semi-Permanent Fascial Sheath Length Change
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Sustained stretching over time can make the connective sheaths that encase muscle — plus tendons, ligaments, fascia, and scar tissue — undergo a semi-permanent change in length.
Detail
With increased stretch over a period of time, the fascial sheaths encasing the muscles may undergo a semi-permanent change in length. These sheaths include the epimysium, endomysium, and perimysium (the connective layers shown in muscle structure; see skeletal-muscle-structure). Additional tissues that adapt to the stretch are the tendons, ligaments, fascia, and scar tissue.
This is the second of the three adaptations listed under what-happens-when-you-stretch. Static stretching, held long enough, is the technique that permits this semi-permanent length change (static-stretching).
Key facts
- Sustained stretching over time can produce a semi-permanent length change in fascial sheaths.
- Sheaths involved: epimysium, endomysium, perimysium.
- Other adapting tissues: tendons, ligaments, fascia, scar tissue.
Connections
- what-happens-when-you-stretch — parent concept (adaptation 2 of 3).
- skeletal-muscle-structure — defines epimysium, perimysium, endomysium.
- static-stretching — permits the semi-permanent change in length.
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