David Lesondak

About the Author

David Lesondak, BCSI, ATSI, FST, FFT, VMT is an Allied Health Member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) where he serves as the Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Specialist at UPMC’s Center for Integrative Medicine. David is the author of the international best seller Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters which has been translated into eleven languages and is now in its second edition. His follow up book, Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications was nominated for the 2021 British Medical Association award for Best Textbook. David has contributed chapters to the 2nd Edition of Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body and the 2nd edition of Metabolic Therapies In Orthopedics. He has also contributed to the 4th edition of Joe Muscolino’s Kinesiology. His podcast, Body Talk with David Lesondak, is listened to in 42 countries and in 2022 made the Top 10%  Most Shared on Spotify. David has been an invited speaker and workshop facilitator to such diverse groups as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop on Myofascial Pain, the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine, the LA Clippers, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Australian, British, and Polish Fascia Symposiums, the World Fascia Congress, the International Fascia Research Congress, the Anatomy Trains Master Class Series, the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and many others.