Rolfing® - Structural Integration    "The Architecture of Healing"

Michael Laird McIver, Certified Advanced Rolfer

Rolfing News

Articles featuring Rolfing and Rolfers have appeared in a variety of journals including:
medical, health and fitness, science, sports, psychotherapeutic, and general publications. 
Go to the Rolf Institute website to see a listing of many of these articles:
 
http://www.rolf.org/press/printcoverage.htm
A listing of research about Rolfing can be found at:
http://rolf.org/about/research.htm

Some articles, presentations and conferences about Rolfing:

Total Body Magazine
"Dancing with Gravity"
Total Body magazine published an article, “Dancing With Gravity: How Rolfing Helps With Your Body’s Structure” about Certified Rolfer Micheal McIver, written by Nancy Wocszk.
January, 2008.
http://www.totalbodymag.com/TB%20Web/January2008Issue.pdf

First International Research Congress
Harvard Medical School, Conference Center
Basic science and implications for conventional and complimentary health care.
The Fascia Research Congress
October 4-5, 2007
http://fascia2007.com


Donald Ingber, MD, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Harvard Medical School, research associate in surgery and pathology at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and member of the Center for Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published an article in Scientific American,
"
The Architecture of Life," about tensegrity as applied to living beings. “Tensegrity is the exhibited strength that results ‘when push and pull have a win-win relationship with each other’."
(Wilkipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity)


Medical Hypotheses
Volume 65, Issue 2
Active Fascial Contractility: Fascia May Be Able To Contract In A Smooth Muscle-Like Manner And Thereby Influence Musculoskeletal Dynamics, by R. Schleip, W. Klingler and F. Lehmann-Horn, 2005, Pages 273-277.


Connecting Tissue and Medicine
Conference

Rolfing lecture presentations given by Thomas Findley, MD., Rolf Institute Research Chair, and Robert Schleip, Rolf Institute faculty member, at the Orange County VA Medical Center, New Jersey; August 12, 2004.


 

"Two Hands"
2007 Academy Award Nomination:
Documentary Film

by Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
The Academy Awards has nominated a documentary film, "Two Hands" about concert pianist Leon Fleisher. The film speaks about Fleisher's experience with Rolfing® structural integration and Advanced Rolfing Instructor, Tessy Brungardt. "When pianist Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand in 1965, he began a decades-long struggle to find a cure for his mysterious ailment while reshaping his career to accommodate his loss...In the late seventies and early eighties, Fleisher dove headfirst into the prospect of recovering his right hand, with a series of unsuccessful therapies that included biofeedback, acupuncture, and surgery; he fully succeeded by the late nineties, with an unusual therapy system called "Rolfing." -New York Times
http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards



Andrew Weil, M.D.
"Condition Care Guide--Asthma"
“Good Morning From Dr. Weil.com” An on-line daily newsletter published a health news brief June 25, 2004--“Tip: Is Your Posture Bad? Today’s Tip-Rolfing."
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/ART00306




Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Journal
Improvement In Balance With Structural Integration-- Rolfing: A Controlled Case Series In Persons With Myofascial Pain, Thomas W. Findley, MD, Ph.D. (VA Med. Ctr, East Orange, NJ); Karen Quigley, Ph.D.; Miriam Maney, MA; Hans Chaudhry, Ph.D.; Ismailu Agbaje, MD, Ph.D., October 2004, Poster 147.


5th Interdisciplinary World Congress
on Low Back & Pelvic Pain

Melbourne, Australia
Rolfing lecture presentation given by Robert Schleip, Ph.D., Rolf Institute faculty member; Nov. 2004.


Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Clinics of North America Journal

Rolfing, by Tracey Jones, MD, Dec 2004.



Michael Laird McIver
Basic and Advanced Rolfer
3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 796
Houston, Texas 77098
713-528-9700