This is a video featuring Libby Eason, Rolf Institute faculty member and certified advanced Rolfer®.

Ein Video von smittysue auf YouTube bietet einen Blick in das Welt des Rolfing. Wer sich etwas aktuell und zwar visuell sehen wollte, sollte das Link klicken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkRGtJ3nAo

Beschreibung des Autors: Schmerzender Rücken kann nicht entzücken. In diesem Bericht wird eine schmerzfreie Behandlung, ganz ohne Chemie, gezeigt. Schmerzen einfach “weg-rolfen”.

Discussion threads at askwaltstollmd.com have some great testimonials about Rolfing.

Rolfing-COST Testimonial excerpt: “After my first Rolfing treatment, I had a wonderful night’s sleep. My hip pain level was down about 80% and I didn’t wake up every 20-60 minutes to turn over, like I normally do… I grew almost an inch in a few days, which made me only an inch shorter than I thought I was, rather than 2 inches shorter!

My second treatment was also extremely beneficial. I’ve had sore feet off and on for years and have had severe heel pain since last summer. He worked on my feet first and the relief was immediate!!”

A June 9, 1997 article in the health section of the Post-Bulletin in Rochester, MN featured the success of Rolfing as part of a wellness program at Starkey Laboratories, a private company that manufactures hearing aids. Most poignant is the story of a woman who managed to avoid surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome by undergoing a few sessions of Rolfing. » Continue reading “Rolfing lowers company’s healthcare costs”

It’s not carpal tunnel. It’s not out and out nerve damage to the radial or ulnar nerve! It’s thoracic outlet syndrome! Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: a 50 year experience at Baylor University Medical Center is an interesting survey of the center’s development of treatment of (read: surgery on) TOS. Food for your professional mind.

On Rolfing sites and in books on structural integration, you’ll find countless claims about “trauma being stored in our tissues.” For some, this can be a hard pill to swallow – it was for me – but neurobiological investigations bear out this metaphorical claim. New tools to investigate the mechanisms involved in the experience of pain are yielding some surprising (or perhaps not so surprising) insights. » Continue reading “How can trauma be stored in the body’s tissues (Part 1)?”

The Rolfing community, as well as many other complementary therapy communities, has long claimed that the health of the mind and of the body are inextricably linked. To many people raised in the western world, that has been considered a laughable and downright absurd proposition best left to the gullible and uneducated for consumption. Dualism – the idea that the mind and body are totally separate and that the body has no effect on the mind – has simply been too ingrained as a fundamental philosophical tenet for fruitful discussion to occur. But change has occurred and western medicine is now recognizing monism as a functional and useful reality.

» Continue reading “Mind-body medicine: Why is it so hard to believe?”

I have always been skeptical by nature.  I think skepticism is healthy, and that’one of the reasons I created this site is to help people skeptical about structural integration get better answers to their questions.  When I first heard about Rolfing® Structural Integration, I liked what I heard about the goals, but I couldn’t believe the expense. The price tag set alarm bells off in my head, especially with all the unsubstantiated and unprovable claims I was reading all over the internet. It sounded like extremely expensive voodoo. » Continue reading “Coming to Rolfing: Matt”

Getting Rolfed often arouses emotional responses in clients that can be mild and practically unnoticeable as well as strong and cathartic. Changes in the body, through various neurobiological mechanisms, affect the functioning of the brain, with particular effect on the regions associated with emotions and feelings. The result is that clients often report feeling happier, uplifted, and more stable. » Continue reading “What does Rolfing have to do with emotions?”

In this interview with Dr. Ginger Campbell, M.D. of the Books and Ideas blog, Germany’s first Certified Rolfer, Dr. Robert Schleip, PhD discusses the role of science in the world of complementary medicine. Topics include a German study on the efficacy of acupuncture, the dynamics of fascia in injury and healing, and the ways in which his scientific research has changed his understanding of Rolfing and other complementary therapies.

Update: The study Dr. Schleip references can be read in its entirety here. The German Acupuncture Trials pitted standard medical protocol, real acupuncture, and fake acupuncture against each other in the treatment of low-back pain. Standard medical protocol scored about a 27.4% success rate. Real acupuncture scored 47.6%. Fake acupuncture?

44.2%.