Willem Kramer

For a better understanding please read “Physical Inter-Organ Connections” before reading this entry.

Either fixed and/or not fixed, all of our organs physically relate to their neighboring organs. Because they do, because they all connect and touch, they constantly exchange influence.

Without end (day and night) our muscles, bones, deep fasciae, nerves and other organs exchange mechanical force [?] and nerve impulses.

Externally and internally originating forces affecting our organs are passed to connecting organs and translated to afferent nerve impulses. Either obscure to us or noticeable, the afferent impulses are answered by efferent impulses, in turn generating obvious or subtle internally originating mechanical forces. The purpose of this continuous give and take between organs is generating motion, maintaining posture, providing joint stability, circulating blood, maintaining homeostasis, and so on.

Although the ongoing exchange pertains to all our body parts, not all of them trade the same kind of influence. Depending on which organs connect and how (fixed or not fixed), they trade only force, or trade force and nerve impulses.

Pendulum - Perpetuum Mobile

Healthy fixed-connections enable the inter-organ exchange of both force and nerve impulses. In regard to force, all organs with a fixed relationship partake in the force-shuffle. Ligaments and bones, joint capsules and ligament, bones and muscles, muscles and deep fascia; all fixed related organs exchange force. Even nerves, arteries and veins, and the organs they are bound with [?] participate in this ongoing correspondence of physical energy. Unlike all other securely anchored organs, the connecting peripheral nerves and muscles and peripheral nerves and blood vessels, exchange both force and nerve impulses [?]. The hamstring muscles and the sciatic nerve, for example, exchange both. Just like the femoral artery and the femoral nerve.

Healthy not-fixed-connections only exchange force. Unlike the fixed connections, however, they are designed to limit the inter-organ trade of shear and pull. The loose inter-organ bonds are perfectly suited to control the amount of force travelling between relating organs. The connection between the iliotibial band and the vastus lateralis muscle for example, is built to limit their correspondence. The same is true for all other not fixed bonds. The not fixed connections between organs and crossing peripheral nerves and blood vessels are designed to do the same. Also synovial joints, not fixed connections between individual bones, are assembled to control the exchange of force between relating parts.

Food for Thought:
With the previous information in mind, what happens to its fixed relations when an organ goes through a character change, for example a change in tonus, pliability, length, etc?
And, what happens to its fixed relations when an organ passes on an abnormal amount of force or an abnormal number of nerve impulses?
And finally, what happens when a not fixed connection adheres and loses its mobility or range of movement?