Is Rolfing Just A Fad Or Does It Provide Significant Results?!
Question:
Is Rolfing Just A Fad Or Does It Provide Significant Results?
Personal and gestalt answers appreciated.
Thank you!
2 months ago
Okay people :-) I'm a bit young here...Rolfing is a faddish to me. Perhaps it was a rather derogatory choice of words. Just being a skeptic...
GESTALT: I meant the supposed collection of emotional and physical entities, which create the unified of concept of rolfing.
Answers:
Rolfing?
It is not a fad at least not anymore.
It was quite amusing in the movie "Semi Tough" back in the seventies when they rolfed Burt Reynolds which if you watch the film throws the whole Gestalt therapy thing into line with the rolfing as players seek to free themselves of trapped pains in the same manner they try and free them selves of trapped emotions. You should really watch the movie. It will make you laugh.
The arguments for rolfing are matched with the arguments it can in certain injuries create new injuries, that it is nothing more than a pain transference, a temporary fix to problem.
Patients could easily alleviate their pain with stretching exercises and nerve stimulation which follows pretty much the same gate theory of pain management but with different modes of communicating with the nervous system.
And then there is always the posibility that the injury is not just an alignment problem but actually a tear, in which case the patient will probably need surgery after the treatment. Seldom happens but it is a possibility.