Here’s a good article in the New York Times
about what high heel shoes do to women. Every woman given a pair of these shoes should get a Rolfers business Card.
Rolfing(R) Structural Integration
Here’s a good article in the New York Times
about what high heel shoes do to women. Every woman given a pair of these shoes should get a Rolfers business Card.
If you ever had a shoulder injury you know how frustrating it can be, let alone painful. You get to the point where you can barely use the arm. That is not good.
Over the years I have over a hundred of clients with frozen shoulders or rotator cuff injuries often referred by orthopedic surgeons. For Rolfers it is one of the easiest problems to fix. Until this article in the New York Times I never heard of anyone else mention the secret to healing shoulder injuries.
The supraspinatus muscle on the back of the shoulder blade gets tight and short as it turns into scar tissue from the arm being constantly rotated out. When your elbow points behind you and not out to the side this little muscle is to blame.
Loren Fishman, a physiatrist (physical and rehabilitative medicine specialist) affiliated with New York-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital took his yoga training to create a simple stretch to release this muscle. Read the article to learn how you can heal your bad shoulder. I also suggest you read this article I wrote on shoulder problems to better understand what causes them and how Rolfing can help.
As a Rolfer clients see me often after seeing a series of physicians – still in pain. I know these docs want to help their patients. The problem is not with them, it is with our medical system. David Katz, M.D., Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center in his post claims the limits to medicine’s understanding can limit the care a patient receives.
As reported August 17th in The New York Times, a fascinating study published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology — suggests that even Lou Gehrig may not have had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Rather, it’s possible that Gehrig had progressive, neurological deterioration mimicking amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) due to head trauma (among other things, he was hit in the head by a fastball).
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Many years ago I had a women sitting in my office in tears from me telling her she wasn’t nuts. After a week of tests at the Mayo Clinic she was relegated to their psychiatrist for her chronic pain. It was ‘obvious from the tests there was nothing wrong,’ yet she was still in pain.
Medicine and their tests don’t measure soft tissue problems, pain or stress – the key areas Rolfers treat. I encourage you to not limit yourself by what medical tests say or don’t say. Listen to your body, see second options beyond physicians.
A recent article in the NEW YORK TIMES lays out some suggestions on how to get insurance companies to pay for Rolfing. Check it out.
Many years ago when I had my clinic I hired doc’s to work for me to supervise holistic treatments as well as Rolfing. I found that to work the best. Second to receiving the treatments in a physician’s office, having a doc write a script for Rolfing can give you the leverage need to persuade the insurance company.
As the article says, persistence is often the secret. Let us know of your success.
My movement work with my clients starts from a simple premise – we still have the bodies of our ancestors.
To get a sense what is best for our bodies I tell my clients to ask what an aboriginal man or woman would do. Those activities will be less likely to produce injuries and more likely to balance our bodies.
Lifehacker has a post about running like a hunter, which is a way I suggest clients approach running. This post was inspired by a New York Times article explaining how running long distances was a leap we made in our evolution.
The scientific evidence supports the notion that humans evolved to be runners. In a 2007 paper in the journal Sports Medicine, Daniel E. Lieberman, a Harvard evolutionary biologist, and Dennis M. Bramble, a biologist at the University of Utah, wrote that several characteristics unique to humans suggested endurance running played an important role in our evolution.
Most mammals can sprint faster than humans — having four legs gives them the advantage. But when it comes to long distances, humans can outrun almost any animal.
Get primitive – run smart.