<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.runnersworld.com/sites/runnersworld.com/files/styles/article_main_image_2200px/public/imap_injurychart.jpg?itok=fSyyEOSr" alt="" title="injury chart imap" /> UNDERSTANDING YOUR FASCIA WHAT IS FASCIA? Under your skin, encasing your body and webbing its way through your insides like spider webs, is fascia. Fascia is made up primarily of densely packed collagen fibers that create a full body system of sheets, chords and bags that wrap, divide and permeate every one of your muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organs. Every bit of you is encased in it. You're protected by fascia, connected by fascia and kept in taut human shape by fascia. Fascia is a major player in every movement you make and every injury you've ever had, but until five years ago nobody paid it any attention. And now they're making up for lost time. WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ...