Função tônica – orientação pela gravidade como o fundamento para a integração estrutural
Função tônica – orientação pela gravidade como o fundamento para a integração estrutural Texto: Kevin Frank Tradução: Fábio Sayão Função tônica estrutura Função tônica é o nome para um modelo de integração estrutural desenvolvido pelo professor de dança, pesquisadorrolfista, Hubert Godard. Função tônica conecta a integração estrutural com a pesquisa científica atualos estudos históricos sobre […]
Structural Integration: Origins and Development
Ida Pauline Rolf, PhD (1896–1979) in 1924. Photograph courtesy of Rockefeller Archive Center. Introduction Structural Integration (SI) is a system of manual therapy and sensorimotor education that purports to improve human biomechanical functioning as a whole rather than to treat particular symptoms. This article briefly reviews its origin and development; the theory, clinical methods, […]
Structural Integration, an Alternative Method of Manual Therapy and Sensorimotor Education
Objectives: The objectives of this report are to review the clinical practice of Structural Integration (SI), an alternative method of soft-tissue manipulation and sensorimotor education, and to summarize the evidence to date for mechanism and clinical efficacy. Methods: The author’s personal knowledge of SI literature, theory, and practice was supplemented by a data- base search, […]
Structural Integration as an Adjunct to Outpatient Rehabilitation for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain
Structural Integration (SI) is an alternative method of manipulation and movement education. To obtain preliminary data on feasibility, effectiveness, and adverse events (AE), 46 outpatients from Boston area with chronic nonspecific low back pain analyzed by Wilcoxon rank sum, = 23?26 mm in SI + OR Neither the proportions of participants with nor the seriousness […]
Grounding Structural Concepts in Physical Reality
Ida Rolf consistently stressed the importance of „gravity, an unexplored factor in a more human use of human beings“. Examining this contention more specifically and concretely immediately leads to realizing that gravity as a physical force permanently interacts with other forces. These are normal force which acts from the ground up on the body and […]
Investigação das relações entre postura corporal e funções orais
FONTE: https://rolfing.com.br/2017/03/09/investigacao-das-relacoes-entre-postura-corporal-e-funcoes-orais/ Estou fazendo um balanço de dois anos do curso de fonoaudiologiarealizei um trabalho de iniciação científica nesse ano de 2014, com o objetivo de investigar se há relações entre postura corporalfunções oraisquais são elas. Levantei então uma série de artigos, teses, monografias, que em sua maioria relacionavam respiraçãomastigação com a constituição craniofacial. Isso […]
The Garden
Once upon a tine, when the science and art of gardening was not yet well established among men, there was a master gardener. In addition to knowing all the qualities of plants, their nutritious, medicinal and aesthetic values, he had been granted a know ledge of the Herb of Longevity, and he lived for many […]
Crior and Collapse – Part I: How We React to Trauma
All sentient beings that I have observed react to trauma in specific, predictable patterns: to the extent they are able, they withdraw; to the extent they are unable to withdraw, they collapse. Poke an amoeba, an elephant or a human and it will immediately pull away; poke it hard enough and it will break down. […]
Life Is Motion
I reaffirm: Life is Motion. Even within our “solid, stable, and passively supported biomechanical network” are elastic responses to pulse, respiration, gravity, ambulation, and cranial rhythmic impulse. Wheeler and I both acknowledge the existence of palpable cranial motion in the adult human. We disagree as to the role our sutures play in it, as well […]
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 […]