Biomechanics and Structural Integration

Structural integration, or Rolfing, is an increasingly popular form of alternative medicine. It has been an accepted practice in the East for centuries, yet the medical community here in the West still does not widely accept structural integration as a viable means of improving one’s health. This is especially true with regard to individuals who are receiving home health care.

Rolfing is performed by adjusting the energy fields in an individual’s body. The fields are manipulated by an individual who is trained in structural integration. Many times, hands are never even laid upon the individual who is receiving the treatment. Often, the patient simply relaxes and allows the individual performing the task to adjust the patient’s energy fields by discovering blockages in certain energy fields, and then subsequently adjusting those energy fields in order to restore them back to unobstructed paths within and around the body. This in turn has the potential to increase the health of the patient. The results can be real. [...]

In the real world of the Economy, there is a word for maximum effort and maximum commitment, it is simply called Quality. Quality is a multi-million dollar industry, through training SQL and seminars, throughout the world. Once a company signs up for Quality trainings, it starts at the higher management staff first, and then the same management passes it on to the next level down, and so forth, all the way down the pyramid, until everyone is trained and sensitive to measuring their own error, posting it publicly in and clearly visible to everyone in the company.

These measures are taken in the larger corporations, where everybody’s errors do add up to unreasonable financial and market losses. In today’s technological environment, with the extremely fast expansion of the web, error can have dramatic effects, as newer modernly organized organizations can use this technology to become quickly market leaders and leave the traditional providers behind. [...]

I must admit that my communications have been rather inefficient with the community so far, trying to address those issues to a wide variety of professionals of Structural Integration, a majority of which are not interested by the subject, simply because they won’t purchase in the near future a computerized video system to document their practice. I am trying now to try and put this page on the searcher’s path instead, making it easier for everyone, hopefully (the process of registering keywords on the web).

However, this is no excuse to not answer the issues I address on this subject, to not read, to not show the slimmest interest. The subject is to important, and I have made enough noise, for this to not attract some attention. [...]

I was very surprised to see NO REFERENCE to Ida Rolf or wooden wine racks or Structural Integration, or Rolfing in this FREE FORUM OPEN TO ANYONE. If I searched correctly, no member (out of 40,000!) is a Roofer, or a Structural Integrator, or a school of SI. Some suppliers seem to know of Rolfing, but we shine by our absence from where things are happening.

This forum unites Schools, Faculty, Students, Ph.D.s, Masters, Publishers, Suppliers, Job searches and offers, etc. throughout the world, relating to Biomechanics, … By the way this site is a model our community could use instead of the historical divisions by schools, as it is much more efficient in researching and accessing information, and expanding everyone’s knowledge about the subject. The big areas, Posture, Gait, and Movement analysis, of the human body, but also other species. [...]

This question is going to be more and more crucial to our community. What is more important: having a computerized software design that gives us merely a clear image (such as our current systems at both the Guild and the Rolf Institute), so that both client and practitioners can self indulge in projecting what they already know about the process that is happening (self centered and subjective).

A system that lets everyone including doctors, insurances, and researchers know exactly how much change happened for all clients (objective because automatically generated, and outwards oriented, towards efficient marketing and full data disclosure). To put it bluntly, keeping the existing imaging system that merely serves our own self indulgence and egocentric view of our work is not going to open any significant door for our profession. [...]