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 […]
Adult Basic Connective Tissue
FORWARD A body lacking connective tissue would be a pulsating mass of protoplasm. During man’s evolution, connective tissue provided a material for specialization of his various conceptualized systems and a connecting medium for the bio-energetic regulation of the body. As a part of the musculoskeletal system and thereby influences his energy level within this force […]
Conservative Therapy for Low Back Pain
Criteria Several authors have recently suggested criteria for critical readers or investigators to use to evaluate the validity and applicability of therapeutic trials. Following are the criteria chosen for this analysis and a brief rationale for each. Criteria for Validity 1. Randomization.-This is the best way to eliminate many of the biases that can lead […]
Liability Insurance Essential to Professional Security
As little as twenty-five years ago, malpractice suits were few and far between. In those days, when litigation was filed against a hospital, physician, nurse technician, or any of the allied health care practitioners, the suit was ordinarily the result of an extremely serious mishap, and even then only after careful and painstaking consideration. Furthermore, […]
Board of Directors Meeting
I Mission Statement (approximately one hour discussion) The Mission Statement continued as an item of discussion throughout the entire Board Meeting. The purpose of the Mission Statement is to introduce to the general public (and the membership) the contributions of the Rolf Institute and of the Rolfing technique to the health and wellbeing of the […]