Contribuição da Integraçnao Estrutural Rolfing® para o Equilíbrio Postural, na Locomoção e na Qualidade de Vida de Adulto Portador de Paralisia Cerebral

Contribuição da Integração Estrutural Rolfing® para o Equilíbrio Postural, na Locomoçãona Qualidade de Vida de Adulto Portador de Paralisia Cerebral CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO ÍTALO BRASILEIRO CURSO DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM INTEGRAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL ROLFING® ROSÂNGELA MARIA BAÍA CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA INTEGRAÇÃO ESTRUTURALROLFING® PARA O EQUILÍBRIO POSTURAL, NA LOCOMOÇÃO E NA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE ADULTO PORTADOR DE PARALISIA CEREBRAL […]

Integração Estrutural Rolfing® e o Conceito de Experiência

Integração Estrutural Rolfing®o Conceito de Experiência A Integração Estrutural – Rolfing é um sistema de reeducação corporal e do movimento através da manipulação do tecido conjuntivo, e é também uma terapia de reeducação proprioperceptiva, que integra as estruturas humanas. Um relato muito comum entre pessoas que passam pela IE-Rolfing é que experimentam uma nova possibilidade […]

Who Moves?

  I would believe only in a God who knows how to dance Nietzsche The Enigma of Self-Moving Of all the things that inhabit this vast universe, nothing is more enigmatic than what is closest to us – our own nature. We know ourselves to be conscious beings, capable of both abstract thought and complicated […]

Third-Party Payments

Overview A “third-party payment” (TPP) is where someone/some entity, other than the client, pays for the client’s treatment. More often than not, it will be a workers’ compensation fund, the defendant’s attorney in a motor vehicle incident, or an insurance company in a personal injury case. Workers’ Compensation We will look first at workers’ compensation, […]

Thawing Frozen Shoulder

Debbie had originally come to me with some knee and hip problems that she had been experiencing while hiking. Her knee and hips were now feeling fine, she told me, but she had a new problem. A fall off her bicycle resulted in a diagnosis of “shoulder encapsulitis,” and now, after six months of rest, […]

A Rolfer’s™ Pelvic/Lumbar Joint Restriction Algorithm

For ten years prior to training in Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI), Certified Advanced Rolfer John deMahy worked as a nurse in an emergency room (ER) trauma center. This experience gave deMahy an acute understanding of how to create order in the midst of chaos. Later, as he began to study spinal mechanics through Rolfing SI, […]

The Rossiter System®

The Rossiter System® is a method for targeted relief and prevention of structural pain – i.e., pain created by overuse, injury, trauma, abuse, or stress – in which practitioners coach clients to resolve their own pain by restoring normal joint range of motion in space. The techniques employ the client’s weight-assisted, active, vectored stretching of […]

A Pained Process

“About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters: how well they understood its human position; how it takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” (W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”) In my favorite movie, Amélie, the main character’s love interest is trying to follow a […]

Pain Relief

What does pain have to do with structural integration (SI) – and why should an issue of Structural Integration: The Journal of the Rolf Institute® be devoted to pain? How is the pain theme relevant to SI in particular; i.e., can anything be said about pain here that would not be equally well said in […]