The Research Committee is pursuing two projects you can help us with. The first project is to support and initiate research into the effects of Rolfing on human performance. By this we refer to peak performance, as in winning an athletic competition, setting a world record, performing a accident or other trauma to the body. While we are developing a standardized process for reporting detailed case studies, our immediate need is for examples from your work that can be used to strengthen our research proposals for scientific documentation of the effects of Rolfing. Of immediate interest to us are examples of athletes whose performance has been improved or restored by Rolfing. We can use copies of newspaper or magazine articles that document your results, as well as statements of your observations on athletes you have worked on.

The second project is a compilation of the scientific literature related to Rolfing. We already have a large collection of material that resulted from a project begun more than ten years ago by George Hall, III. A number of Rolfers have offered to help us review this material for its relevance to Rolfing, and we will be making these reviews available to you. If you have come upon articles you consider to be especially interesting, we would like to add them to our collection.

If you have material relating to human performance or interesting references to the scientific literature, we would greatly appreciate it if you would communicate them to the following member of the Research Committee:

James L. Oschman
31 Whittier Street
Dover, N.H. 03820 USA
(608)742-3789Research Committee Requests Information & Assistance