Fascia May Be a Key to Better Health
New York Times
“…fascia is alive with nerve endings. This means it can be a source of pain. The longer it is damaged or inflamed, the more sensitive it becomes. When you’re sedentary for a long time, fascia can shorten, become overly rigid and congeal into place, forming adhesions that limit mobility…inactivity can also lead fascia to reshape itself. If you spend most days hunched over a computer, the fascia surrounding your neck and shoulder muscles may change so that your posture becomes curved. Fascia can also become damaged from repetitive movements, chronic stress, injury or surgery — becoming inflamed, overly rigid or stuck together. And it stiffens with age. Fascia that is too short, stiff or sticky in one part of the body can lead to pain and dysfunction elsewhere, by pinching or pulling in the wrong direction. The body can also compensate by changing the way it moves, causing other issues.”
On Being podcast with trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk
"Really feeling your body move, and the life inside of yourself, is critical....what’s been most helpful for me has been Rolfing."
"I had asthma as a kid. I was very sickly as a kid, because I was part of the group in the Netherlands — I mean, in the final year of the war in the Netherlands, during which I was born, about 100,000 kids died from starvation, and I was a very sickly kid. And I think I carried it in my body for a long time. And Rolfing helped me to overcome that, actually... my body became flexible and multipotential again.
And for my patients, I always recommend that they see somebody who helps them to really feel their body, experience their body, open up to their bodies."
Fascia Tissue Is Crucial to Preventing Pain—Here’s How to Find Relief
Prevention Magazine
This article addresses:
What is fascia?
What does fascia do?
How fascia affects different types of pain.
Prevention and how to relieve fascia pain.
How to find a fascia-focused practitioner.
Rolf Institute article and local news report about one of my clients.
https://wlky.com/article/lily-moore-basketball-scholarship-wrist-injury-louisville/40760917
Research about Rolfing
Rolf Research Foundation’s website at https://rolfresearchfoundation.org/
DIRI Research page https://rolf.org/research.php.
Research about Somatic Experiencing
https://traumahealing.org/research/
Change the Body, Grow the Self
Article by SE faculty Dave Berger about the importance of bodywork in trauma healing.
Applied Force: Does Rolfing Work – and How Much Does It Hurt?
Article from Climbing Magazine about Rolfing.