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The International Fascia Research Congress (FRC) has been held in Boston, Amsterdam, and Vancouver and has built a reputation for bringing cutting-edge fascia science to the research, medical and clinical communities.

Dedicated to the newly emerging field of “Fascia Studies”, the fourth FRC will be held near Washington, DC on September 18 – 20, 2015 and continues to provide a forum for high-level fascia exploration. More than 1,000 participants from around the world are expected to attend the 2015 conference. The 2015 conference is hosted by the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation.

The upcoming Congress will include a special 1-day session on "Fascia, Acupuncture and Cancer"chaired by Helene Langevin, November 14, 2015, at a Harvard Medical School conference center in conjunction with the Society for Integrative Oncology and the Society for Acupuncture Research.

The Fascia Research Congress was created by a multidisciplinary committee of basic science researchers and practicing health care professionals whose respective fields share a common focus and interest in the human body’s soft connective tissue matrix. For the first time, the 2015 Congress will also include veterinary aspects of fascia research. An important continuing initiative of the FRC is to foster understanding and collaboration among scientists working in fascia research and the various clinical professionals who address fasciae in their work with clients and patients. The FRC provides high quality conference settings where these usually diverse groups can learn from one another, gain insights that will inform and enrich their respective pursuits, and advance scientific inquiry and applied methods.

The information developed at these conferences is made available through this ongoing website and other available media (e.g., Proceedings Books, DVD Recordings). For more information about materials from past congresses, see the chart below:

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Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

Hyatt Regency Town Center, Reston, VA

Submission Info

Authors are invited to submit abstracts presenting new research results related to research on fascia.

Scholarships will be available to graduate students with scientific abstracts accepted for the Fascia Research Congress. Graduate students enrolled in any doctoral degree granting program (MD, PhD, DO, DC, DPT, DPH, DAc, etc.) submitting abstracts will be considered for a $200 scholarship. In addition, cash prizes will be awarded by Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. Please see ourScholarships and Awards page for more information.

Abstracts selected by the Scientific Review Committee will be posted on this web site and published in the 2015 conference proceedings book.

The general categories requested for submitted abstracts are:

1. Basic science
   
   1. Anatomy of Fascia
   2. Biomechanics of Fascia
   3. Cytology / Histology of Fascia
   4. Modeling and Fascia
   5. Pathology and Fascia
   6. Biological Fluid Dynamics
   7. Fascia and Cancer
   8. Veterinary Fascia Research
2. Clinical mechanistic research, or clinical findings suggesting directions for basic research
   
   1. Fascia Assessment Modalities
      
   2. Manual and Movement Therapy directed at Fascia
   3. Tool Assisted Therapy directed at Fascia (including try needling)
   4. Fascia in Surgery and Recovery from Surgery
   5. Low Back Pain and Lumbar Fascia
   6. Fascia related research on special populations (e.g. women, persons with disabilities)
   7. Scars and Adhesions
3. Research methodology
4. New Hypotheses
5. Fascial considerations for, women, minorities and persons with disability, such as pelvic pain, keloid formation, spasticity
6. Other

Conference on Fascia, Acupuncture and Cancer at Harvard Medical School - November 14, 2015:
This is a joint meeting of the Society for Acupuncture Research, Society for Integrative Oncology and Fascia Research Society. If your abstract is accepted for the 4th International Fascia Congress in September at Washington, DC, you will have the option to have your abstract considered for this conference.

Thank you for visiting the 4th International Fascia Research Congress website. We welcome any comments, questions, or suggestions you might have. Please send us your feedback:

Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation
3980 Broadway
Suite 103, PB 156
Boulder, CO 80304
info@fasciacongress.org

Thank you for visiting the 4th International Fascia Research Congress website. We welcome any comments, questions, or suggestions you might have. Please send us your feedback:

Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation
3980 Broadway
Suite 103, PB 156
Boulder, CO 80304
info@fasciacongress.org