PT Codes
Frank Wu I use 97140, (Physical Manipulation), which works in Virginia. Try it, and divide it into 15-minute segments. Clay Cox Depending on the state that you practice in, you might be able to use 97140.1 bill four units at $25 per unit. In other cases, I use a combination of 99213 every month or […]
Ilium Outflare
Greg Knight Yes, the outflare you are seeing could be an inflare on the opposite side. First, I’d start by looking at the pelvis as a unit, one segment, to see if it is tilted to one side or another or twisted. Is what you are seeing perhaps not an intrasegmental problem with biomechanical components, […]
Bodyworkers, Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology?
INTRODUCTION Structural Integration practitioners aim t( affect the human body’s visible contours balance and motion dynamics. At firs glance, one of us studying Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology may seem more than a little strange. After all, we work with humans, not other large critters; and Vertebrate Paleontology, as the study of dead and extinct creatures’ […]
A Rolfer Can Tune Your Body
IDA ROLF Rolf was born in New York in 1896, and her early training was scientific. She received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia University (1920), did postdoctoral work at the Rockefeller Institute’s Department of Chemistry, and held a 12-year associate position in that institution’s Department of Organic Chemistry. During a leave of absence from […]
Saving Time, Money, and People
[:en]Welcome to the 21st century. In a matter of 50 years, this nation has gone from the industrial age, through the service age and into the information and technology age. Despite dramatic improvements in people’s lives, one thing has not changed: in the world of work, people still get injured just doing their jobs. These […]
Genetic Differences in Pain Sensitivity:
An interesting article in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (Vol. 96, #14, 7752-7755, July 6, 1999, http://intl.pnas.org/) describes the discovery of a gene (now called ‘mu gene’) which modulates the opiate receptor density of nerves in mice as well as humans. In other words: some folks have a high receptor density for […]
The Pain Barrier
I think that at the pain barrier, to improve, one proceeds to slowly process the neurological data associated with the unconsciously learned reactions to the pain. If ever too much data (pain) is presented at once, then the unconscious reactive pattern is triggered and once again reinforced. Many clients then conclude that this stuff isn’t […]
Ida Rolf on Pain
There is no painful experience apart from the motor intent to withdraw from the experience. The desire for self-preservation, inertia, resistance to change are understandable and predictable. The experience of change to the average man often manifests itself as “pain.” p. 275 ? It could hardly be expected that the profound tissue changes documented in […]
The Re-Constructive Use of Pain (reprint)
What of pain as a factor in psychological and physiological evolution? How much is known about pain, and the larger syndrome of stress to which it belongs? How does it function in the learning process, in the development of the self-concept, in inhibition, in consciousness: can it be used constructively to facilitate deep-seated personality changes? […]
Beyond Pain in Rolfing
INTRODUCTION In 1911 was part of a Rolfers’ delegation to China. I was a new Rolfer and anxious to experience the exchange between Rolfers and Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We were to learn something about Tuina (TCM Massage) and we were going to demonstrate Rolfing to the Doctors at the Guang An Men Hospital […]