Biography

David Lesondak, BCSI, ATSI, FST, VMT is an Allied Health Member in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

He serves as the Senior Structural Integrator and Fascia Specialist at UPMC’s Center for Integrative Medicine.

He is a Board Certified Structural Integrator, Anatomy Trains Structural Integrator,  Frederick Stretch Therapist, Fascial Fitness Trainer, and Visceral Manipulation.

David is the author of the international best seller Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, now in its 2nd edition. His follow up book, Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications was nominated for a 2021 British Medical Association award. He has also contributed to the 2nd Edition of Fascia: The Tensional Network of the Human Body, the 2nd edition of Metabolic Therapies In Orthopedics, and the 4th edition of Joe Muscolino’s Kinesiology.

David sits on the Executive Committee of The International Consortium on Manual Therapies.

He hosts the podcast Body Talk with David Lesondak which has listeners in 95 countries.