Swedish Massage therapy is the practice of soft tissue manipulation with physical, functional, and in some cases psychological intentions. The word comes from the French massage “friction of kneading”, or from Arabic, massa, meaning “to touch, feel or handle and an older etymology may even have been the Hebrew me-sakj “to anoint with oil”. Rolfing is the facilitation of a human structure that is balanced, palintonic, and free of inhibiting restrictions. The term “Rolfing” is a derivative of the last name of the founder and creator Dr. Ida P. Rolf.
Rolfing employs techniques and uses of the backs of hands, knuckles, palms, elbows, and forearms without using any messy oils.
Structurally Integrating the body includes but is not limited to, addressing and balancing tendons, ligaments, diaphragms, membranes, suspensory tissues supporting vital organs, and all fascial layers from superficial-deep. Massage involves acting on and manipulating the body with pressure done manually or with mechanical aids. Target areas may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, or organs of the gastrointestinal system. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet. There are over eighty different recognized massage modalities.
Rolfing is designed to reduce kinetic drag on the human structure created by the restrictive wrapping of connective tissue around the entire body much like a body stocking or uni-tard that rotates and counter-rotates, enveloping the entire structure in a compressive suit under the skin. Massage is designed to sooth the client and enhance the body’s health. Swedish Massage Therapy is considered to be among the most basic methods of massage and is among the first styles of massage that new masseurs study. Developed by Henry Ling in Sweden in the 1700s it was designed to allow the body to absorb more oxygen.
There are six techniques used in administering Swedish massage. Effleurage is the technique most people associate with massage in general and Swedish massage in particular. In doing effleurage, the masseuse makes use of long and sweeping strokes that cover more than just one area of the body and is in no way capable or designed to differentiate fascial layers the way lengthening does with Rolfing. Friction helps the muscles relax and is used to warm up the tissue, while Rolfing facilitates an action called fluffing to transform flat layers that counter shift segments. Petrissage is the act of kneading and squeezing the muscles of the body, it does not target or focus on any particular part of the body, while Rolfing uses an technique known as de-rotation to align specific segments superior/inferior to the segment being de-rotated. Tapottement are strokes that aim to energize the area of the body that the masseuse is treating. Traction involves pulling at the arms and legs of the client, and sometimes also the head. The act of pulling stretches the muscles of the client. Rolfing incorporates the participation of the client while on the table and will use cues that bring awareness to areas like “reaching” to engage the client in reaching with the arms, legs, head, and other segments so the action is active and not passive thus generating an integrative response. With massage the vibration technique is used to shake up the area of the client’s body that is being treating to help the client relax, but Rolfer’s facilitate what is known as “body geometry” to transforms the clients disposition about their sensations.
Swedish massage therapists help sooth and relax the client while providing more oxygen to the body by clearing and refreshing the blood circulation of the body, which aids in health and feels good. Certified Rolfing uses an initial protocol known as The Certified Rolfing Ten Series and has the ability to reduce pain and release tension in the connective and myofascial tissue of the body associated with TMJ, CTS, RLS, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica, Fascitis, Bunions, and Scoliosis. Fascial asymmetries can cause foot, leg, knee, hip, back, shoulder, neck, arm, hand, and head pain. Certified Rolfing and Rolf Movement is premium pain management utilizing Structural, Functional, and Postural Integration.
John Barton, Certified Rolfer® and Rolfing® Whitefish/Kalispell, MT
www.certifiedrolfing.com/Kalispell
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