Integrative
Therapy
When people experience trauma and pain, the brain can do things we don’t understand.
Integrative
Therapy
When people experience trauma and pain, the brain can do things we don’t understand.
Manual Therapist
Structural Integration
is an integrative approach to manual and movement therapy and designed to address body – wide posture movement and persistent pain patterns due to injury, accidents, stress, tension, trauma and repetitive motion.
Manual Therapist
Structural Integration
is an integrative approach to manual and movement therapy and designed to address body – wide posture movement and persistent pain patterns due to injury, accidents, stress, tension, trauma and repetitive motion.
Structural integration – based on the pioneering work of Dr Ida Rolf – is a scientifically validated process of restructuring the body through touch and movement education. Structural Integration involves the direct manipulation of the nerves and fascia. Fascia is the main connective tissue in the body, connecting everything to everything else. Stress, trauma, and any type of repetitive movement can cause the fascia to be restricted, resulting in injuries and pain. By manipulating the fascia, you can experience immediate relief from pain, allowing for a three-dimensional change that promotes a feeling of wholeness and balance.
The fascial system covers every structure of the body, creating a structural continuity that gives form and function to every tissue and organ. The fascial system interpenetrates and surrounds all organs, muscles, bones and nerve fibers, endowing the body with a functional structure, and providing an environment that enables all body systems to operate in an integrated manner.
Who is Structural Integration for?
Anyone can benefit from Structural Integration, women, men and children alike as a solution to ease chronic pain and others hoping to improve athletic performance.
Other benefits include:
- Posture and spine health
- Pelvic pain
- Relief from TMJ and headaches
- Rehabilitation from injury, accidents and surgery
- Pre and post-natal care including c section scar therapy
- Foot pain
- Knee pain
- Increase energy
- Relieve physical and mental stress
What to expect from Structural Integration?
Resting posture and global movement patterns are assessed using gait analysis, to look at the body in motion, and how the joints and myofascial slings act to transfer force throughout the body. Maria starts by looking at the foot – its movement and its relationship to the body in gravity – then formulates a strategy. Manual therapy is then applied. Multiple hands-on neurofascial techniques are used including cranial sacral, visceral, and myofascial therapy.
During the session, patients routinely get off the table to reassess their gait and movement. The end goal is to bring all the systems working together and allow the body to find its center.
I am dealing with problems in the body where there is never just one cause. I’d like you to have more reality on the circular processes that do not act in the body, but that are the body. The body process is not linear, it is circular; always, it is circular. One thing goes awry, and its effects go on and on and on and on. A body is a web, connecting everything with everything else.
Ida P. Rolf, Ph.D.
Sharon Wheeler's
Scar Work Therapy
Integrating Scar Tissue into the fascial web
So what is Scar Work Therapy? Scar work was developed by Sharon Wheeler, a Rolfer of more than 40 years and a student of Dr Ida Rolf. Scar work uses light touch manual therapy techniques which promote improvement in scars, not just in the appearance, but also in their underlying effects on the body.
The work is rarely painful – even for new scars. The cosmetic appearance is delightful, and functional changes can be profound.
Producing scar tissue is a normal part of our body’s response to trauma. Unfortunately, scarring can lead to the development of adhesions which may restrict natural movement away from, or close to, the site of the scar. Adhesions can connect structures that should not be connected, thus restricting mobility and organ function, creating a feeling of tightness and pain.
A group of symptoms that may occur as a result of adhesions is called Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD). For more information on ARD click here.
How Scar Work can help?
As the restrictions from scar tissue and adhesions start to free up, there will be a release of tension throughout the body. Primarily, this provides pain relief as it takes the strain off the joints, helps improve posture and mobility, as well as frees up the nerves from fascial restrictions. Stimulation to the tissues is also likely to promote the blood and lymphatic supply that is essential for cell regeneration.
People who will benefit from Scar Work Therapy include those who have undergone the following:
- Women’s health issues
- Pregnancy related procedures, including C-sections and epidurals
- Cancer related treatment and procedures
- Abdominal surgery
- Knee surgery
- Hip surgery
- Anyone who has undergone any type of surgery or experienced trauma as a result of the surgery
Some people may think they do not have any scar tissue – but if you remember when you twisted your ankle that one time and it was swollen and bruised, that can also be tissue damage resulting in scar tissue.
What to expect from Scar Therapy?
Scar therapy can help with some of the pain patterns that may have developed as a result of trauma or surgery, which may be causing problems by putting strain onto surrounding tissues.
Using light touch manual therapy (including infrared light therapy and lymphatouch negative pressure), inflammation can be reduced and lost movements can be reintroduced.
The work is gentle and many different scars can be worked on – both old and new, from hip replacements to C-sections – and the skin will become smoother. This can also improve the appearance of keloids.
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Structural Integration | Scar Work Therapy
Per session
S$165 for 60mins
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If you’re looking for a different approach to manual therapy, then structural integration may be what you’re looking for.
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