this contact form How Rolfing Is different From Deep Tissue Massage
Having been a Licensed Massage Therapist for over 12 years and now a Certified Rolfer™, I can say from touch that the disagreement between the two manual therapies is striking. Yes, they have similarities such as having the quality to loosen deeper, tighter tissues, sacrifice stress and promote leisure and well being. However, Rolfing® Structural Integration can be defined as a systematic approach that attempts to restore equilibrium and alignment to the whole body for long chronic pain relief. Deep Tissue Massage is different from Rolfing in that it tends to focus on techniques for each personel muscle strain, it is temporary relief, and does not address or publish the ideas wide payment patterns, or the root cause of your pain, dis-function, or "stress".
How Rolfing Is different From Deep Tissue Massage
The Therapeutic Process
A thorough Deep Tissue massage session is usually a one hour, full body treatment. The results are immediate, and there is not a required definite amount of sessions. The amount of sessions recommended truly depends on the wants/needs of the client. The strategy of therapeutic process is thought about by the client's reports of symptoms of pain or stress.
Rolfing therapy requires a definite amount of sessions to work the whole body. Rehabilitation consists of ten 60-90 minute sessions, spaced one to three weeks apart, depending on the client's needs. Each session strategically builds upon the other, and the results are cumulative even after the Ten Series process has ended. After a complete series of Rolfing Structural Integration, some clients return, after a waiting period of three to six months, for tune-up sessions that help to mouth the benefits of the body being good balanced and alleviating pain from emerging deeper issues.
Goals
What distinguishes Rolfing Structural Integration from Deep Tissue massage is not necessarily the medium in which we work, but the goal of our work - which is to reshape and reorganize the human structure. Using clearly defined ideas in a systematic and consistent manner, a Rolfer manipulates tissue in order to lessen the effects of the constant pull of gravity. In Deep Tissue massages, tight tissue and toxins are released locally, on a table, often with heavy, direct, stagnant pressure. The benefits are increased blood and oxygen flow, resulting in tissue heal and pain management. In Rolfing, systemic connective tissue patterns are lightly lengthened and loosened slowly-layer by layer, separating the layers that adhere to muscles that have been pulled out of position by strain or injury. Rolfing therapy and education is also received in sitting and upright movement, which in terms help improve posture, flexibility, neural programming, self-awareness, coordination, and athletic performance. Since bodily problems are truly the symptoms of chronic postural restrictions, compensations, and habitual patterns, clients can see long term improvement from injuries, surgeries, neck pain, back pain, and other assorted disorders with Rolfing.
Movement Education
Rolfing is not just a therapy involving direct manipulation of soft tissue. Integrating the newly changed structures into a functional, involving holistic body is a unique, indirect and educational aspect of the work. Deep Tissue Massage often does not contain movement education, such as working with the client in motion, let alone off the table. Benefits of integrating postural and anatomical cues with the client off the table, in gravity, can help the client bring the touch of their Rolfing sessions into their daily lives either at the office, with their favorite musical instrument, or in their current sport, resulting in improvement in performance, posture, durability with less opportunity of injury due to improper use of their bodies.
In summary, Deep Tissue massage can be therapeutic, relaxing, short in commitment and help aid in blood flow and localized muscle recovery, but it does not address the body's wide alignment, movement, nor does it have a recipe to address structural and habitual compensations. Rolfing Structural Integration is a therapy quite different and unique in its process of evaluating the whole body, its anatomical segments, and integrating the improved relationships into bodily equilibrium with the gravitational field. Certified Rolfers are also postural educators, imparting insights to clients to increase their awareness and insight of their bodies, for improved posture, flexibility, performance, aid in injuries and furnish long chronic pain relief. If your body feels stuck, you've tried assorted forms of health care, stretching, etc. And are still experiencing chronic pain, or if you'd like to improve your game, or win the war against gravity, Rolfing is right for you. Try a session today!
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