Colleagues from dance and Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) share memories of Don Van Vleet, Rolfer and dancer.

ABSTRACT Many people may not immediately associate dance with sports, yet a dancer is without doubt a high-functioning athlete. In this column, our Sports Editor Russell Stolzoff interviews Rob McWilliams about his professional dance career and his current work as a Rolfer and Rolf Movement practitioner.

The most incredible and powerful asset you own is your mind. With this magnificent organ, you can heal yourself and others physically, attract wealth and prosperity, smooth troubled relationships?and that?s just for starters!Byron Gentry, D.C.(1)Byron Gentry, D.C. was born in 1913. His childhood affliction with polio only seemed to give him more determination to improve his own condition and that of others. He became a very successful chiropractor based in Oklahoma City, and first met Ida Rolf at a training she gave in Dallas in 1954. Gentry and Rolf became good friends and colleagues.Gentry is credited with influencing Rolfing regarding the use of focused intention. He published Miracles of the Mind: How to use The Power of Your Mind for Healing and Prosperity in 1998, a book written with his wife Mary Gentry about his life and healing work and especially about his developed use of mental projection. In it, he offers instruction in the use of these techniques, including ?The Tool,? a method of using mental projection and physical actions to assess and re-balance the electromagnetic polarities and static charge buildups that may cause pain and dysfunction. Gentry died in 2001 after a lifetime of healing and learning.Dan Gentry (pictured with his stepfather and wife, Theresa) is Byron Gentry?s stepson. This interview is the result of a set of written questions given by Robert McWilliams to Dan, and their subsequent ?massaging? of the answers. Robert works in Dan?s Rolfing practice during regular forays to Oklahoma City.

Authors’ note: This article stemmed from an informal phone conversation about the advanced training, which took on slightly more of a mantle of formality, if not perfect syntax, in an interview, later. McWilliams went on to attend the 2010 advanced training with Sally Klemm, Gael Ohlgren, and Lael Keen in Kona, Hawai’i.

*Introduction* – In this article, I describe hallux rigidus and functional hallux limitus from a clinical perspective, as well as from my own experience with the condition, and my recent surgery and postoperative regimen for recovery. My wish is to educate practitioners so that they can potentially recognize budding symptoms in clients and address underlying conditions and causes, perhaps preventing the full onset of this debilitating condition. – * Pre-surgery Notes* From Figures 1a and 1b, the boney deformity and limit to my left foot’s range of motion (ROM) are apparent. The bunion (hallux valgus) is sizeable on the right foot (Figure 1a), but it gives me no pain in any direction of motion. On the left foot, Figure 1b shows that I was unable to hinge in big-toe extension at my first metatarsal-phalangeal (MTP) joint on that side. X-rays revealed it to be a hallux rigidus condition, an obstruction in the joint caused by spur growth limiting toe extension. Note that the shape of the bone spur reaches upwards, not sideways like the bunion on the right foot. This is one of the key identifiers of the condition, as well as ROM testing showing the restrictedness in extension, as in my case.