WHAT IS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION?
Structural integration (also known as Rolfing®) is a manual therapy and sensorimotor education that aims to improve human biomechanical functioning as a whole instead of treating particular symptoms.
Structural Integration
All bodies assume a pattern, whether due to an injury, an accident, poor posture, a traumatic experience, or chronic pain, these experiences can have a great impact on your mind and body.
The way we exist in our space can affect who we are. These experiences can be embedded in the mind, the muscles, biological tissue, and the fascia.
WHAT IS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION FOCUSED ON?
Structural integration focuses on the fascia and myofascial chains to restore postural balance and recover ease of movement.
It is a therapy oriented to the system and not to the symptoms. This means that it works towards the integration of the whole body.
Work in the fascial system and in particular structural integration (SI) is not a job in which the client lies on the massage table and relaxes, it is a teamwork between client and therapist.
Keeping the customer moving increases the amount of new proprioceptive information that the brain is processing during the session, which improves the integration of work into its movement pattern.
When the client moves, the fascial layers and specific structures come to life under their practitioner’s hands in a way that they cannot if the client is static.
THIS IS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION ✅
- Giving information to the nervous system
- Active therapy: the client moves
- Global view of the body and its structure
- Personalized treatment
- Bringing the body and its structure to its whole potential
- Teamwork between therapist and client
- It has a beginning and an end
THIS IS NOT STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION ❌
- Kneading fabric
- Customer lies passively on the stretcher
- Local vision
- Standard protocol
- Treat only the symptoms
- Therapist works for the client
- The client becomes dependent on the treatment