Thawing Frozen Shoulder
Debbie had originally come to me with some knee and hip problems that she had been experiencing while hiking. Her knee and hips were now feeling fine, she told me, but she had a new problem. A fall off her bicycle resulted in a diagnosis of “shoulder encapsulitis,” and now, after six months of rest, […]
My Favorite Practice-Building Secret
Introduction In my opinion, developing your craft is your very best form of Practice Building. The more skilled you are, the more clients refer others. So committing to lifelong learning is primary. But, until you have a self-sustaining practice (and in many environments, this may never be possible), what other ways are there to build […]
What is Rolf Movement® Integration?
Rolf Movement Integration addresses parts of the Rolfing® Structural Integration (SI) process that don?t automatically improve through application of fascial touch. Fascial mobilization is a central feature of the Rolfing tradition. Because fascial work can so dramatically shift human function, the ?movement part? of the work is often less understood and appreciated. Movement intervention can […]
Connecting Tissue and Medicine
The Myth of the “Pinched Nerve”
According to data published by the renowned Emnid Institute, two thirds of all German citizens complain of recurring pain in their locomotor system, 61 per cent are impaired in their daily activities by it, and every third day of work disability is caused by back pain. Yet 85 per cent of these chronic back patients […]
Beyond the Recipe:
We often hear it said that Rolfing is a process – not an event. Orientation to process is perhaps a hallmark of “holistic” practice. But there are t degrees of holism. Rolfing by the Recipe is holistic in the sense that considers the structural context of local symptoms and addresses the entire body; and goes […]
Internal/External:
This year is the 59th anniversary year of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in England. I happened to hear some of her Golden jubilee address on television, and I was struck by one thing she said: that the English are a practical race, not given to theory. W.H. Auden called Britain the Empiric Isles, and there certainly […]
Fibromyalgia
Sandy Collins There is quite a lot of thought around fibromyalgia being trauma related. I would suggest the possibility of working with the “trauma” model – Peter Levine’s Waking the Tiger. Also I think a good acupuncturist might be able to help systemically. Bill Morrow I am in the same office with other practitioners, an […]
Cervical Compression
Sandy Collins I have a client, a flight nurse, who lifted a 250 lb. man on a litter into a helicopter. She has seen a neurosurgeon and had an MRI with a C5-C6 compression diagnosis. She has had severe left shoulder pain extending from about C3 to her left wrist, including the scapula, and has […]
Therapy Balls and Rolfing – Reprint
In 1997 I presented a program at the Roll Institute’s Annual Meeting demonstrating how I use therapy balls in my work. Al that time I learned that many Rolfers have at least one large therapy ball in their office. However, many people said they didn’t know how to incorporate balls into their sessions. Introducing therapy […]