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Back Pain, Part 1 – Understanding the problem

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s inevitable. Like death and taxes. Back pain.
Second to colds, the most likely reason you’ll visit a healthcare provider will be back pain. Fifty percent of Americans report back pain each year.
Are you in pain right now? Is your movement limited? Are you reducing your activities because of the pain or the fear [...]

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Tags: acute · chronic · pain · self-care

Rolfing For Health

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The word is getting out on Rolfing being a beauty treatment as well as a therapy. A post on The Beauty Site explains the beauty benefits of Rolfing. More people are realizing that improving your health and your structure does make you more attractive. Being healthy always looks good.

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Tags: self-care

Can You Share Your Cellulite with Me?

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It seems researchers discovered that subcutaneous fat might be a good thing. “Even more surprising, it wasn’t that abdominal fat was exerting negative effects, but that subcutaneous fat was producing a good effect, ” Professor Ronald Khan.
As a Rolfer, I am in the process on conducting a pilot study on reducing cellulite for women. I [...]

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Tags: integration · research · self-care · stress

The Tao of Exercise and Self-Care

January 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

This post is an article that was published in the Rolf Institute’s journal by Gael Ohlgren, a Rolfer and her teaching partner Robert Litman about the body, exercise, breathing and staying young. They discuss Continuum, a body and movement therapy which is the a beautiful compliment to Rolfing with its teaching the body about deep [...]

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Tags: adjunct therapies · chronic · integration · rest · self-care · stress