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          My Structural Integration Bodywork has successfully and repeatedly fixed back pain, & even severe back tightness & other structural pain due to tightness as well.  It often improves and even "cures" sciatica.  Knee pain has been helped, and it has significantly re-lengthened chronic hamstring tightness.  It helps pain and tightness in legs, pelvis. neck, shoulders, chests, sides, bellies, arms and hands.
           It increases Athletic Performance.
           Tightness from working out, or from lack of movement, has easily been loosened, scar tissue can be broken up, and injuries in tight muscular areas can be helped to heal faster.  Injuries like pulled muscles can be prevented because the tissue is much longer again.
            This treatment works very well in conjunction with physical activity and physical therapy programs.  It has helped children as young as 5 and seniors to 91 be more physically agile. A number of  elite athletes and college coaches have been very pleased with the significant results they received.
Back Testimonials         Other Pain & Tightness Testimonials
Athletes Testimonials          Coaches Testimonials         Seniors Testimonials
Sports Medicine Benefits article -- performance improvement  &  injury support         

            It's very effective in removing stress and helps tight heads. Loosening the many bones and muscles of the head increases comfort and relaxation in the entire body.  The many pieces of the head should move, as we breathe and when we express ourselves.  But they get very tight, especially during stress.  That adversely affects the back and neck, the nervous system, the ability to breathe deeply, all the internal organs, our emotional capacity, and our abilities to think clearly and process large amounts of information.
           Months and years of accumulated stress are removed at the same time that tightness all over the body is re-lengthened.  Built-up emotional charge in the tissues, from stress, gets erased, too.
           Faces look more open, less stressed, and even younger.  Eyes get more relaxed.  Neck strain is reduced.
           The body is literally "reformed" and "cleaned up," and its tissue quality and metabolism is healthier.  So it works a lot better physically & is more stress resistant as well.
            This has helped many people express themselves more openly and more confidently.  And their minds were calmer and clearer.
Stress & Mental Performance Testimonials
Health Practitioner Testimonials  -  MD, DC, Nurse. PhD, Massage
Psychological & Stress Removal Benefits -How Improving the Structure improves the Mind
Creating Higher Functioning Body-Minds   -   Big 16 page article

            In this method, we aren't directly fixing pains in the way medical doctors do.  We are simply, but very sophisticatedly, re-lengthening and re-organizing the body's fascial, soft connective tissue system.  The method is a series of inter-connected hands-on sessions,
            We are creating better overall structural alignment. The relationship of muscles and bones is put back toward where it's designed to be anatomically.  That even removes the tight muscular pulls from one part of the body to another.  Problems disappear that were the result of the old restricted form.
             In this new condition, people's psychological well being and mental performance has increased along with their physical improvements.  Awareness, centeredness, and both mental and creative focus have all improved.  Performing artists, and other people, have expressed their feelings and intentions better, and more articulately.

            Many people's shapes change.  They're straighter,  Many notice they're a little taller and shoulders may not be so rounded.  Body proportions get better so some people actually look thinner.  And a number of women's legs look nicer.

            Results are exceptionally long lasting, or even permanent, and much greater re-lengthening results are created in much less time than with massage, acupuncture, trigger point therapy, and reflexology.
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            The greater length and better overall alignment has regularly improved Chiropractic results and has increased the benefits from Orthopedics and Osteopathy.
            Excess curves of the spine are often improved, especially lordosis and swayback.  Most lower back pain can be corrected when we correct the tightness and misalignment that cause it.  Even protruding disk or herniated disk problems and pinched nerves have been helped.
            Because the muscular tightness has been re-lengthened and the overall spinal misalignment has been improved, Chiropractors and patients report they get more vertebrae to go in, easier, and they stay in longer.
            The quality of the tissue also improves. That has increased the benefits from the next massages, acupressure, cranial-sacral work, reflexology and even magnetics and other physical therapy techniques.
Benefits to Massage       Chiropractic       Orthopedics

             These structural, physiological and even energy improvements have made it easier for people to get more out of movement training such as Alexander Work, Rolfing Movement, Aston Patterning and Feldenkreis, and from yoga, tai chi and breathing meditation techniques.
11 Benefits to Yoga Practitioners      Yoga Testimonials      MeditationTestimonials

             While the best and most long lasting results happen when the whole body is treated, even one or two long sessions have helped many people; removing a lot of recent stress and tension, and noticeably reducing some of their tightness.
Creating Higher Level Body-Minds - 16 page article
Increasing Performance - whole-body fascial re-organization - 13 page article
Fixing Accumulated Shortness  -  20 page article

             Structural Integration has often been combined with other Bodymind release methods to increase the long lasting benefits, and create even more significant improvements in our well being.  It can be part of a whole personal growth system.            
              I have included in-depth articles and testimonials about the system I use, which includes Reichian, Bioenergetic and Netherton method techniques.
             The combination removes trauma and stress more thoroughly.  It is excellent for emotional release, yet that release itself is less traumatic. And it creates more effective and personally satisfying abilities, at work and in personal relationships.
              Also see the left side menu under Bodymind, Psychotherapy and Personal Growth Methods.
Trauma Release Bodymind Therapy  -  Bodywork with Reichian - Netherton Method
Trauma Release & Emotional Release Testimonials
Removing repeating Negative Behavior Patterns  - with Netherton Processing
Psychological Well Being & Stress Removal Benefits of the Bodywork itself
How the Bodywork helps Specialized Kinesiology  -  & Improvements with Netherton
Performance Enhancement Personal Growth & Professional Growth

             This is purposely a content-rich, information site.  It is meant to educate as well as interest.  It gives you information you can use to feel better & perform better.  If you're a body therapist, it can help you do a better job.
             The Site Information Library is an extension of handing out or e-mailing my helpful articles.  I often refer people to read specific articles on this site
Quick Locator Menu -- this page                Free Articles

              In this regard, it's a bigger site as compared to those of other Bodyworkers, clinics and schools.  I also sell products and offer wholistic "systems" for self-improvement.
Structural Stretching System          Energized Relaxation Method
Mr. Green's Wholistic Health & Raw Food Diet Program
Self-Help Booklet - How to Find, Interview & Work with a Structural Integrator
Professional Performance Enhancement Programs - Menu
The Institute for Enhanced Performance page

             The free articles on this site explain a lot of the basics, very thoroughly, and de-mystify pains & problems.  The books, articles & informational tapes for sale add a more detailed level of understanding.  Pain sufferers, athletes & performing artists, and health practitioners can learn much more about improving body structure, increasing athletic performance and removing stress, pain and tightness.
How our Structures Work - Excerpts from Back Fix Bodywork Book
The Structural Fascial Form - Excerpts from Body Works Better Book
           
            If you're "here" because you're just interested in sessions, you need only read the introductory articles, review some testimonials, and call me or another practitioner you're interested in.
Part 1 - Benefits          Part 2 - Treatment            How to Get Sessions

             Articles on this site are purposely written in print style versus abbreviated web style so you can get an in-depth understanding of Structural Integration and Body-Mind transformation.
             Text font, size & length were designed for ease of reading and comprehension.
             Text highlighted in bold black and red allows you to scan the key points in each article.

             As far as I know, from my own experience, treatments such as Rolfing, Hellerwork, Movement Enhancement and Postural Integration all employ the Structural Integration Bodywork method.  I, myself, received Master certification in Postural Integration in 1983.


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INFORMATION LIBRARY
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* NEW to this method?  Start here.  Explains the basics, and links you to more detailed articles in the site.
Intro Part 1  Many Benefits of Structural Integration
Intro Part 2  Structural Integration Treatment

* BRIEF, easily scan-able explanations:
Like Massage? Difference from & helps Massage
Back or Knee Operation? Helps Orthopedics
Need Adjustments?  Increases Chiropractic Benefits
Like Stretching? Improve Stretching,  Benefits Yoga
Feeling Stiff? Foods to Stretch easier & reduce pain
A Runner?  Lengthening Hamstring tightness & removing scar tissue
Bodymind Therapy:  Specialized Kinesiology, Erasing long-term negative patterns

* IN-DEPTH, many-page articles:
Performance:  Creating greater athletic performance & artistic abilities,  Making the whole body perform better
Pain:  Removing stiffness, tightness & pain
Backs:  Correcting the Cause of Back Pain, Back Tightness & Back Injury
Stress, Focus & Performance:  Bodywork's Stress & Psychological Performance Improvements
Trauma Release:  Trauma Release Therapy
Personal Growth System: Performance Enhancement system

* Descriptive TESTIMONIALS:
Athletics:  Olympic Athletes, Coaches, Trainer
Stress:  Removes Stress a lot, quickly, & lasts
Trauma:  Using the combination system
Stretching:  Yoga works better & benefits increase
Meditation:  Meditation more effective
Parents, Grandparents:  Helps Seniors a lot

* RESOURCE INFORMATION  for Massage Therapists & Structural Integrators
Free Articles Menu,
Back Book,     Performance Book,
Relaxation Tape
Structural Stretching Book-Tape
Technical Articles

* IN-DEPTH ATHLETIC INFO, in books  
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