In recent years the importance of fascia has been greatly rediscovered. Therapists with
standard anatomical education that work with patients have observed and demonstrated the
benefit of comprehending and retaining knowledge of the connective fascial network. They
accentuate that a greater emphasis be placed on fascia and its functions during teaching and
training. Several medical professionals including medical doctors assorted therapists and
other medical and paramedical personnel have validated that fasciae greatly influence the human
body in various ways. Research has underlined the aforementioned fact. This book is intended as
an aid for practitioners and aimed at anatomically skilled readers. It presents detailed
dissections of fascial systems using soft life-like fixed tissue. Through the dissections
presented here the editor Hanno Steinke wants to evoke an impression of the properties of
fasciae to the readers. Steinke's biomechanical research on ligaments and aponeuroses combined
with his experience in dissection and teaching resulted in presentations of the fascial
systems illustrating the anatomical relations at first glance. This book also contains
reproductions of thin plastinated body slices produced by Steinke in which the basic
component of fascia the collagens has been vividly stained. The photographer Anna Katharina
Rowedder is experienced in depicting the three-dimensional anatomy and has been enlisted by
the Institute of Anatomy Leipzig for capturing the images in this book. The impeccable layout
adequately compliments the rationale of the presented Atlas of Human Fascial Topography. This
atlas will intersect the anatomy of fasciae with the known academic topographic anatomy.
