Shearing vs. Gliding: Learn Integral Anatomy with Gil Hedley 

The hockey metaphor can be expanded: growing up in Montreal, we always had a rink in the back yard. But some days it was just too cold for the gliding layer of liquid water to form under our skates or the puck. Skating felt like walking on concrete, and the puck would not glide at all. Kind of an adhesion through dehydration. My body feels like that sometimes (but less often now.) Thank you for your wonderful teaching.

This is fundamental concepts and best explanation I ever received! Thanks Gill

Wonderful explanation as always Gill😊

"Warps" and "hockey puck"-perfect word choices, once again, to illustrate the complex framework of anatomy. Thank you.

I am reminded of a 'Live with Gil' that you had on your site with Leslie Kaminoff. It was great! I believe that he was going to address his personal battle with Covid -but there were so many great questions that came in from your members that we never got to that subject. Your description of the lungs with the serous fluid that help the 'gliding' made me recall all the articles that were published during the pandemic. There will be so much that will be discovered about Covid…but with this RU-vid episode, I can see the relevancy to how the adhesions interfered with the lungs being able to in their healthy pattern? What say you, Gil? I hope you schedule Leslie on, again-all your guest speakers are well versed in their subjects!

Fantastic explanation, the Canadian in me appreciated the hockey puck analogy. :-) I look forward to your talk in Vancouver, BC. Thanks from a new fan.

Amazing as always and a highlight of the day! Looking forward to experiencing this via Elizabeth Larkham’s ‘Fascia in Motion’ repertoire on the reformer. Thank you.

Brilliant info as usual, thank you.

Great video. I love this explanation!

Lovely descriptions again Gil. I thought we might be listening to application of techniques and shearing (painful and applied with more effort} versus gliding (working with the body, easier, connected to the clients tissue).

Love this topic! Can you talk about mechanisms of how adhesions can form and how they can be broken up or rehydrated? For example, chronic muscle spasms caused by nerve compression can lead to dehydration , atrophy, and fascial adhesions. Conversely, shearing fascia mechanically with massage or something like the Corgeous Ball stimulates fasciacytes to produce hyaluronic acid. This allows fascia to rehydrate and restore lubricity between layers.

Thank you Gil!

Great explanation Gil! I shared on my FB page! This is so exciting and exactly what I needed to watch! Thank you!

Vocabulary for meditation: During shear how the fluid and nervous systems respond. What the response is when the shear is reversed. The multiple shears around compression and expansion. I use a lot of vibration to activate the lymphatic valves think of the different effects of when the tissue is under shear or gliding.

On reflecting about lack of daily movement, ageing and elderly people (my mother currently) it is interesting to contemplate the muscle tissues and viscera becoming increasingly dehydrated and bunged up or gluey. With someone nearing end of life, the body tissues atrophy and get cord like and stiff. The limbs can twist into a protective cocooning shape and twitch involuntarily. Witnessing all of this and the discomfort in the viscera in someone who is bed-bound, I have emphasised movement in any small way possible. And of course increasing hydration, which is a big problem with the elderly. I have watched your "Fuzz" video years ago, so I can see and feel how the tissues are becoming more leathery in the very elderly and unhealthy body. As a CST, I am interested in learning more about the formation of adhesions - post surgical healing, or due to general inactivity, or very elderly condition.

Really fantastic explanation Gil. I get a sense now of the way things move relative to surrounding or adjacent tissues and how there is a difference between the muscles tissues that shear differentially, versus the visceral and surrounding areas that have a gliding motion. Just about to do further training in Fascial Unwinding the viscera and this is super helpful. Shared it with my instructors.

In neurodynamics, I know the nerve gliders, and tensioners. Gliding is with serous fluid I understand from your video. But I think the peripheral nerve is connected through perifascia and not serous fluid, thereby I think it is not right to call it sliding, but shearing of the peripheral nerves. Maybe you can help me to understand this beter.

if you were my teacher i'd be full focus and never fall asleep 😂

What's the difference between the perifascial membrane and a "septa"?

I am so in love with you, Gil! Don't worry girlfriend, you are safe (sorry I forgot your name!) I keep thinking to myself.... if only I had Gil teach all of my classes when I was in grade school, I'd be a Rhode Scholar today! hahaha... seriously,...I always know I am going to learn something interesting when you put up a new video! I love the examples you use... it is so close to home for me as I can relate to both of those terms. I know there is a modality out there that works with the viscera... I forget what it is now, but I was curious as to what sort of work would one do to help correct this? Can those breaks in the membranes be repaired? P. s. I am an easy rider as I am approaching the end of my career.

I’m working for children with severe handicaps, they can’t move their body’s very well. Shearing and Gliding are both a significant chronic problem there…