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THE SUPERFICIAL BACK LINE We are in the midst of discussing assessment of the Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians, the longitudinal linkages of the muscles through the fascial fabric. Last installment we aired several issues from the Superficial Front Line (SFL), which runs up the ventral side of the body from the top of the toes across the belly and chest to the sides of the skull. This time we go to its complement, the Superficial Back Line (SBL), which is a coherent chain of force transmission from the underside of the toes along our entire dorsal surface—the legs, the back, and even over the head to the eyebrow ridge (Image 1A). Next time, we will examine the Lateral Lines and assess imbalances between the two largely symmetrical left and right myofascial rigging along our sides. In comparing the front (SFL, Image 1B) and back (SBL), we are comparing two lines that must and do balance each other, but which are not, like the two Lateral Lines, mirror images of each other—not structurally, not even physiologically, and certainly not in their psychobiological meaning (Image 2). A The front and back myofascial meridians counterbalance each other across the sagittal fulcrum of the spine, but are not at all mirror images of each other. The two Lateral Lines also counterbalance each other, but with the same bones and soft-tissue structures on each side of the coronal fulcrum. B tune in to your practice at ABMPtv 71