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Named after its founder, Dr. Ida P. Rolf, Rolfing® Structural Integration is a form of bodywork that reorganizes the connective tissues, called fascia, that permeate the entire body.
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More than 30 percent of adults in the U.S. are living with chronic or severe pain. If you’re part of that statistic, you know how devastating living with severe or daily pain can be.
Rolfing Structural Integration strives to align and balance the body’s components until the entire system is a smoothly functioning coordinated whole.
In 1920, Ida Pauline Rolf received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
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Bodywork and manual therapy are general terms that refer to body manipulation therapies used for relaxation and pain relief. Massage is a well-known form of manual therapy.
If you want to improve your health, treat it like school. Changes made in a hurry won’t last.