Working with a Valgus Leg Pattern
Ida Rolf created a system of values to determine the relative spatial order of the human body. These values give us a framework to make assessments about the body-in-gravity (by means of a projection of a conceptual grid of vertical and horizontal lines), and the interrelationships of the major segments or components of the body […]
Effects of Structural Integration on State-Trait Anxiety
Of the numerous new intervention techniques designed to improve the general well-being through postural alignment, Structural Integration has received rapid and popular acclaim. Structural Integration, or rolfing as it is popularly lagoon, is a technique for reordering the body so as to bring its major segments-head shoulder, thorax, pelvis and legs-into a finer vertical alignment. […]
Effects of Soft Tissue Mobilization (Rolfing Pelvic Lift) on Parasympathetic in Two Age Groups
Mobilization of the bony pelvis and the surrounding soft tissues has been used in medical practice since the beginning of recorded history. Ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and Greek medical accounts all describe pelvic manipulations and associated changes in breathing, arterial pulse, body temperature, and muscle tone(1). Several schools of manual therapy, including chiropractic, osteopathic, and Rolfing, […]
Shifts in Pelvic Inclination Angle and Parasympathetic Tone Produced by Rolfing Soft Tissue Manipulation
Advocates of manual therapy have largely based their methods on the traditional osteopathic premise that an integrated or balanced musculoskeletal structure will be reflected in optimal physiological function(1,2). According to A. T. Still: ?There is no real difference between structure and function: they are two sides of the same coin if structure does not tell […]
Il Rolfing ed i Suoi Aspetti Comuni Alla Dottrina Omeopatica
Omeopatia Rolfing: due discipline a confronto L’Omeopatia È la dottrina concepita dal medico Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), che intuì il principio per cui i pazienti devono essere trattati con quei rimedi che nel soggetto sano hanno prodotto sintomi simili a quelli che essi lamentano. Hahnemann definì la propria medicina ?omeopatia? contrapposta alla ?allopatia?, intendendo che ?per […]
Structural Integration
When his physical body gets into difficulties, trouble spreads to the whole man. It affects his consciousness, and he calls it stress. Many approaches, physical and psychological, have been used by men in their efforts in escape – drugs and massage among the oldest of these. What is the first requirement to relieve this stress? […]
Alongamentos Estruturais
INTRODUÇÃO Logo após minha graduação em Psicologia Clínica, em 1973, participei de um grupo de estudos com o Dr. Gaiarsa, em São Paulo, Brasil. Pela primeira vez, então, meus olhos se abriram para a importância da propriocepção na senso-percepção, na auto-imagemna auto-estima, assim como em sua aplicação no trabalho com a transformação(1). Em 1981, conclui […]
Structural Stretches – Presentation
Let me tell you the history of the project that you?re gonna see. This manual that you have in your hands actually is the result of an empirical experiment that has been going on for 16 years. When I first graduated in clinical psychology ? that was in São Paulo in 1973 ? I joined […]
The Domino Effect of Adaptive Forces
Similar to the underlying mechanics of psychology, where an unresolved issue sits at the center of a complex surrounded by a web of compensation, somatic misalignment is also surrounded by adaptive forces attempting to correct unresolved physical imbalance. Sometimes this domino-like effect doesn’t stay neatly within one anatomical system. Visceral theory simply contends the musculoskeletal […]
Continuous Tension, Discontinuous Compression
Man’s concepts of engineering and the subcategory, Bioengineering, are tooted in the Egyptian, Greek and Roman concepts of engineering and architecture, fighting the compressive forces of gravity with col umns and massive blocks of stone. It is only in recent history when we hate developed newer materials that we have recognized that tension forces can […]