Integração Estrutural – Parte I
Resumo: A integração estrutural do corpo humano na gravidade coloca em execução mudanças no homem como um todo – sua psicologia, seu metabolismo, seus padrões de ação. Este artigoo artigo seguinte exploram modelos teóricos que fundamentam estas mudançascomunicam os resultados de projetos de pesquisa que validam a técnica. Quando o corpo físico encontra-se em […]
Integração de Segmentos Corpóreos na Dor Músculo-Esquelética – Parte II
PARTE II O SISTEMA MIOFASCIAL INTEGRA O CORPO O corpo é uma unidade composta por vários segmentos móveis(eg: pé,pelve, tórax, cabeça). O sistema de fáscias do corpo une um segmento corporal ao outro. Além disso, esse sistema fascial transmite esforços mecânicos entre os diferentes segmentos, como vimos acima. Assim, o movimento entre dois segmentos afeta […]
A Lógica Funcional da Receita
Com este trabalho, a autora deseja homenagear o gênio de Ida P. Rolfagradecer a Vivian JayeJane Harrington, que plantaram as sementes da curiosidade pessoal da autora sobre o movimentoque, juntamente com Pedro Prado, aguçaram sua visão do Rolfing. Ela também deseja agradecer a comunidade brasileira de rolfistas, cujos membros contribuíram generosamente para o desenvolvimento da […]
Fascia
Fascia is the name for any of a wide variety of connective tissues. It develops from the mesoderm and is distributed extensively throughout the body, providing a kind of “packing” for muscles, bones and vessels. The two kinds of fascia that most concern the Structural Integration practitioner are superficial fascia and deep fascia which are […]
Fascia Is Able to Contract in a Smooth-Muscle-Like Manner and Thereby Influence Musculoskeletal Mechanics
SUMMARY With immunohistological analysis we demonstrate the presence of myofibroblasts in normal human fasciae, particularly the fascia lata, plantar fascia, and the lumbar fascia. Density was found to be highest in the lumbar fascia and seems to be positively related to physical activity. For in vitro contraction tests we suspended strips of lumbar fascia from […]
Principles of Treatment in Practice
In the curricula of most forms of manual ‘therapy training, the discussion of therapeutic setting (or therapeutic environment) is usually regarded as of secondary importance, and this is in marked contrast to training in psychotherapy. This disregard of therapeutic setting does not reflect the challenges that confront manual therapists in their day-to-day practice. From a […]
Rolfing and the Conquest of the Ground
PERSISTENT METAPHORS Despite the conceptual advances in the second half of the twentieth century that have encouraged us to re-examine old metaphors of the body as a machine, the “machine” metaphor is still deep-rooted in our daily lives and our literature. We talk of being geared tip – our joints being well lubricated, our […]
A Motive for Rolfing, A Motive for Writing
This is a paper I have wanted to write for years, yet, because of the difficulty of its underlying premise, it is one I have hesitated to present. Those familiar with my work know of my enduring love for somatic metaphor, particularly musical metaphor. Most who have taken the time to consider my diverse articles […]
Distinctions in Structural Integration
What follows is a statement of my own opinions. I do not claim to know everything on the subject, or to know all the history. I am not a researcher. I look for things that distinguish; that are clear; that are dependable; and that seem true to the best of my knowing, so far, about […]
Hypertonicity and Compression of the Lumbars
A: The cause of hypertonicity and compression typically comes from poor sitting and habitual dysfunctional movement. The crux issue is not allowing the core to move in contralateral motion while walking, sitting (even sitting should allow contralateral motion), running, or any form exercising. Contralateral motion through our core space – which includes the spine – […]