Fascia in Sport and Movement, Second Edition 2/e

Robert Schleip MA, PhD, Director, Fascia Research Project, Ulm University, Germany; Research Director, European Rolfing Association; Certified Rolfing Instructor and Feldenkrais teacher; Author and co-editor of several books and numerous research articles. For his discovery of active contractile properties in fascial tissues he was awarded the prestigious Vladimir Janda Award for Musculoskeletal Medicine. He was co-initiator and organiser of the first Fascia Research Congress held in Boston, USA in 2007. Jan Wilke, Leader of the Fascia in Motion research group, Frankfurt University, Germany; Member of the American College of Sports Medicine; Conditioning coach who has worked with high-level athletes, including the former world No 1 tennis player, Angelique Kerber; Visiting Fellow to Amsterdam University (Netherlands) and Liverpool University (UK). His chapter on Myofascial Chains, published in Gray's Anatomy, represents one of the first anatomical atlas contributions explicitly focusing on fascia and movement. Assistant Editor: Amanda Baker