Prof. Dr. Carla Stecco is an Orthopedic Surgeon, Professor of Human Anatomy and Movement Sciences at the University of Padova. Founder Member of the Fascial Manipulation Association and of the Fascial Research Society. Member of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, of the Association Francaise des Morphologistes and of ISMuLT. Scientific activity devoted to the study of the anatomy of the human fasciae from amacroscopical, histological and physiopathological point of view. She personally made a lot of cadaver dissections for research. From 2000 she organises and personally holds theoretical-practical courses about the Fascial Manipulation technique both in Italy and in other countries. Author of more than 200 in extenso papers about the fascial anatomy, 150 indexed in Pubmed. Author of two books about the Fascial Manipulation (Piccin ed), translated in English, German, Spanish, Corean and Japanese, and of some chapters about the fascial anatomy or the Fascial Manipulation Technique. Author of the “Functional atlas of human fasciae” (December 2014, Elsevier ed.).

Carla collaborates with the University Paris Descartes (Prof. Delmas), the University of São Paulo (Prof. Imamura), the University of Ulm (Dr. Schleip), the University of Medicine of New Jersey (Prof. Findley) and Touro University of New York  (Prof. Stern). 
She is a member of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology since 2007 and of the French Society of Morphologie since 2008. She is a founder of the Fascial Research Society and the Fascial Manipulation Association. Member of ISMULT (Italian Muscle-Ligament-Tendon Society) since 2014. He is on the Editorial Board of Surgical Radiological Anatomy and the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.