Invented at The Fascia Institute · Performed only by Dr. Courseault
A full-body view of the tissue that holds you together.
Fascial Mapping is a head-to-toe ultrasound assessment of over 100 anatomical points across your fascial network, scored on a 488-point system — invented by Dr. Jacques Courseault and offered only at The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center®. Every mapping produces a comprehensive, scored report you can carry forward.
What your Fascial Mapping report looks like.
Real depth. Real grading. Real recommendations. Take a look at a sample report before you book.
What Fascial Mapping is.
Fascia is the connective-tissue web that runs through every region of your body — wrapping muscles, organs, nerves, and joints, and connecting them into a single integrated system. When fascia is healthy, you do not feel it. When it is restricted, scarred, or behaving abnormally, it can produce pain that travels, pain that does not match imaging, and pain that resists rehabilitation.
Fascial Mapping is a full-body, ultrasound-based assessment of that network — invented at The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center®, refined across thousands of patient visits, and performed personally by Dr. Courseault. Rather than imaging a single painful site, he systematically reads fascial restriction, dysfunction, and tissue behavior across the entire body and grades it into a single, comparable, comprehensive report.
Fascial Mapping ultrasound image
What your Fascial Mapping report contains.
Every Fascial Mapping produces a comprehensive written report — built to be carried forward, shared with your other providers, and compared to your future mappings as your tissue changes. Five elements anchor the report:
488-Point Scoring System
Every one of the 100+ anatomical points assessed is graded on a four-grade scale, generating a 488-point fascial organization score that rolls up into a single performance percentage. You see exactly where your tissue is healthy, where it is restricted, and how it compares region by region.
Four-Chain Architecture
Findings are organized into Anterior Upper, Anterior Lower, Posterior Upper, and Posterior Lower chains — the way force actually moves through your body — so you understand the system, not just isolated muscles.
Performance Classification
Your final score lands in a color-coded tier — the same kind of objective benchmark elite performance teams use to clear athletes for high-load training.
Asymmetry Index
Side-to-side and front-to-back imbalances are quantified against a 15% significance threshold — catching compensation patterns before they become injuries.
Functional Impact Translation
Every restriction is connected to what it means for your life: how it affects sprint mechanics, overhead reach, deceleration, fatigue accumulation, or daily mobility. No jargon-only findings.
Multi-Modal Treatment Plan
You leave with a sequenced treatment plan covering hydrofascial release, TECAR, shockwave, red light, PEMF, and daily mobility — built around what your specific report shows and delivered through our Fascia Performance Program.
Reports are comparable across visits. When you return, the numbers move. You see exactly how much your tissue has changed.
Why ultrasound — and why whole-body.
Most pain pathways in the fascia do not announce themselves on standard MRI. They are dynamic — visible only when the tissue is loaded, palpated, and read in real time. Ultrasound is uniquely suited to that work: it captures glide, restriction, and tissue behavior as it is happening, with the precision needed to read the layers individually.
But spot ultrasound — looking at one painful region — only answers part of the question. Fascia behaves as a network. A restriction in one place often expresses itself somewhere else. A pelvis can drive a shoulder; a foot can drive a neck. Until you see the full network, you are reading a chapter of a longer story.
Whole-body Fascial Mapping is what closes that gap. It is the difference between treating where it hurts and understanding where the problem actually lives.
One report. Three audiences. Real value for each.
Quantify durability. Track preseason readiness.
Identify the exact tissues limiting explosive output — and the exact protocols to address them. The same depth of diagnostic used by professional players, available season-round. Used on athletes including Jameis Winston, NFL quarterback.
Stop guessing why pain keeps coming back.
Get an objective score, a clear explanation of how restrictions affect your daily life, and a treatment plan that actually targets the cause — not just the symptom.
A diagnostic layer that augments — not replaces — your workup.
Detailed grading, asymmetry analysis, and treatment protocols you can integrate into your patient’s care plan. Reports written in clinical language with patient-friendly summaries on top — and easy to share back to you.
Why Dr. Courseault built it.
Fascial Mapping did not begin as a marketing offering. It began as a clinical answer to a clinical problem. Over years of treating patients whose pain refused to behave the way standard imaging predicted, Dr. Courseault recognized that the missing information was almost always the same: the fascial network had never been read as a whole.
He developed a systematic protocol for reading it — region by region, layer by layer, dynamic and static — and refined it across thousands of patient visits at our New Orleans flagship. What emerged is a method that exists nowhere else: a full-body fascial assessment with the depth of a research protocol and the practicality of a clinical visit. It is now offered at The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center® of Los Angeles.
Who Fascial Mapping is for.
Fascial Mapping is offered as an optional, advanced diagnostic. Most Fascia Medicine cases are evaluated, diagnosed, and treated successfully through Dr. Courseault’s standard physical exam and case-specific ultrasound. Mapping exists for two specific kinds of patients.
The patient whose body has not made sense to anyone yet.
Multi-region pain. Hypermobility. Slow-healing injuries. Cases with normal imaging and abnormal symptoms. Patients who have already done the standard workups and are still searching for what is actually going on.
- Pain that has resisted prior workups
- Multiple body regions involved
- Hypermobility spectrum disorders & EDS
- Chronic injuries that won’t fully heal
- Cases where the source isn’t obvious
The patient who wants to know their fascial network.
Not every reason to map your fascia is a problem. Some patients come to Fascial Mapping out of curiosity or commitment — a desire to understand the tissue that holds them together at a level no one has ever shown them.
- High-functioning bodies who want a baseline
- Athletes preparing for a season or event
- Patients invested in long-term body health
- Anyone who wants the most thorough soft-tissue picture available
“After a full Fascial Mapping, Dr. Courseault identified areas and asked if I had a past injury — and yes, I certainly did. He released areas of adhesions using his groundbreaking techniques and I now have better mobility and function.”
— James V.
Your Fascial Mapping visit, end to end.
Mapping appointments are scheduled as an extended in-person visit in our Beverly Hills office on one of Dr. Courseault’s procedure days. The visit is designed so that, in most cases, you walk out the same day with a complete report, recommendations, and initial treatment.
What Fascial Mapping is not.
To set expectations honestly:
Frequently asked.
No. Most Fascia Medicine cases are evaluated, diagnosed, and treated through a standard physical exam and case-specific ultrasound. Fascial Mapping is an optional, advanced diagnostic — recommended for complex cases or for patients who want a comprehensive view of their fascial network.
A regular ultrasound looks at one region — the painful shoulder, the strained calf. Fascial Mapping is a head-to-toe protocol of 100+ anatomical points, scored on a 488-point system across all four fascial chains. It connects findings into a single map and comprehensive report, so you understand how your network is functioning together rather than how one part is misbehaving alone.
Often, yes — particularly when the source of pain is fascial. Fascia is largely invisible to MRI, and many patients arrive having been told their imaging is “normal” while their bodies still hurt. Mapping is built specifically to surface the layer those workups cannot.
In most cases, yes. The visit is structured so that consultation, mapping, report review, recommendations, and initial treatment can all happen in a single appointment. When findings warrant more involved or staged treatment, we schedule it deliberately so the work gets the time it deserves.
Dr. Courseault personally — every image, every region, every visit. There is no outside reader and no handoff to a sonographer. The method was invented by him, and the method is performed by him.
Nowhere. Fascial Mapping® was invented by Dr. Jacques Courseault and is currently performed only at The Fascia Institute and Treatment Center® — at our flagship clinic in New Orleans and at our Los Angeles practice in Beverly Hills.
Yes. Reports are written in clinical language with patient-friendly summaries on top, and are designed to be shared directly with your other providers to coordinate seamless, informed care.
That is the point. Every Fascial Mapping is comparable to your previous mappings. As your tissue changes, your scores move — your fascial organization percentage, your tier, your asymmetry index. It is a quantified record of progress, not a “feels better” check-in.
Ready to see your fascial network?
Fascial Mapping appointments are scheduled around Dr. Courseault’s procedure days in Beverly Hills. Take a look at a sample report — or request your appointment now.
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