tructural ntegration S ® I THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE JUNE 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION: LETTERS 2 THE JOURNAL OF THE ROLF INSTITUTE® COLUMNS June 2010 Vol. 38, No. 1 Ask the Faculty: Working with a Valgus Leg Patt ern 3 Rolf Movement® Faculty Perspectives: 7 PUBLISHER Body Security: The Movement Brain Asks “Where Am I?” The Rolf Institute of ® Structural Integration CONSIDERING NERVES AND THE COLD LASER 5055 Chaparral Ct., Ste. 103 IN ROLFING® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Boulder, CO 80301 USA The Neurology of Posture 9 (303) 449-5903 An Interview with Don Hazen (303) 449-5978 Fax Jan Sultan (800) 530-8875 Gett ing a Handle on the Superfi cial Fascia 12 In Consideration of the Cutaneous Nerves EDITORIAL BOARD Stephen Evanko Craig Ellis Szaja Gott lieb Common Peripheral Nerve Entrapments and Syndromes 16 Anne F. Hoff , Editor-in-Chief Clay Cox Linda Loggins Practical Considerations for SI, Biased by the Nervous System 22 Heidi Massa Christoph Sommer Robert McWilliams, Managing Editor Deanna Melchynuk The Low-Level Cold Laser as an 26 John Schewe Adjunct to Rolfi ng® Structural Integration Dave Sheldon Mark Hutt on, Jeff rey Maitland, and Jonathan Martine LAYOUT AND NEW CONSIDERATIONS OF ORAL STRUCTURES IN SI GRAPHIC DESIGN The Maxillae as the Inner Bridge Between 32 Susan Winter Neurocranium and Viscerocranium Peter Schwind Articles in Structural Integration: The Journal of The Rolf Institute® represent the Including the Stomatognathic System in Rolfi ng SI: 35 views and opinions of the authors and A Collaborative Experiment in Broadening Our Scope do not necessarily represent the offi cial A Collection organized by Pedro Prado and Heidi Massa positions or teachings of the Rolf Institute Including Functional Exercises in the 7th Hour of Structural Integration. 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Duplication in whole or in part INSTITUTE NEWS in any form is prohibited without writt en Graduates 48 permission from the publisher. “Rolfi ng®,” “Rolf Movement®,” and 2010 Class Schedule 48 “Rolfer™”are service marks of the Rolf Contacts inside back cover Institute of Structural Integration. LETTERS capable of linear and sequential movement and there is no wish on our part to do away with that possibility. Some people used to Lett er to Authors of “A Rolfer’s™ Response to Gracovetsky” (December 2009 issue) think about light as having the properties of a wave. Others preferred the view of photon particles. Neither is the “truth,” yet the resolution of this confl ict brought about Dear Gael and David, Why are the diffi culties with your analogies quantum mechanics. important? Because the analogies fail Thank you for your article, “A Rolfer’s In fact this argument over the body has to support any supposed contradiction Response to Gracovetsky.” I agree been in the scientifi c world at least since between the “traditional, Western, linear, wholeheartedly with the point made in fi rst the 1800s. To refer to a recent book, The industrial-aged, two-dimensional” design part – that legs are important for walking Root of Thought by Andrew Koobs (Pearson of levers and pulleys and the “new, fl uid – and in the last part, which discusses the Education Inc. 2009), we fi nd this same and interactive” model with spirals, helices practical consequences. But, as a physicist, argument couched in the study of brain and tubes. As a scientist, in my view, there I must say a word about the middle part, function. Leaving the issue of spirals for is no such contradiction. Spirals, like levers, in which you argue that spirals and helices a moment, I think that this is the heart of are abstractions that simplify the reality of are favorite or superior designs of nature. the matt er: Golgi believed that the brain the natural world. Each of these abstractions In fact they are not; they are only two of worked like a net in which communication is useful to illustrate and conceptualize many natural designs, the favorite among and response was fl uid and simultaneous particular aspects of a complex reality, but which is more a matt er of taste than of fact. throughout the whole system. However, neither is itself reality. These models do not For example, my personal choice would be his colleague, Cajal, believed that the brain compete, and looking for spirals should not the sinus curve. was comprised of incremental cells and that prevent us from understanding what the information was conveyed sequentially. Although you look to various natural levers and masses are doing. There is plenty of evidence in the body that phenomena to support the superiority of I prefer to understand the unique both are true. My preference for the net the spiral and helical forms, the analogies contralateral patt ern of human gait through analogy is for the following reasons: do not quite work. For example: both models, and I’m proud to join Serge 1. Dr. Rolf based her theories of structural • Nothing we see in a spiral galaxy actually Gracovetsky in old-fashioned discussions integration on the holistic model of a web moves in spirals. All this stuff moves about levers, masses, and springs. I only or net. in ellipses. What appear to be spirals wish the Rolf Movement® Integration are actually regions in space where community had greater respect for and 2. We humans employ models in order intragalactic gas pressure is higher – understanding of Newton’s mechanics. to organize information. New models which is where stars are born. allow us to make new connections. Our, Why? Because at least concerning albeit poetic, model of natural walking • A hurricane is a catastrophic event very biomechanics I would like to see us gain has served me, my clients, and students far from the natural equilibrium, in the respect of the scientifi c community, and in organizing perception in a useful which the movement of air is generally I’m afraid that declaring a superior way of manner. I believe that the biomechanics either quasi-linear or chaotic. The jet thinking will not take us in that direction. of the helix have not yet been fully stream, for instance, moves almost Sincerely yours, appreciated in the scientifi c world, nor linearly. have they been applied to walking. Adjo Zorn, Ph.D., • Generally speaking, the motion of water Certifi ed Advanced Rolfer™, 3. The lever/pulley model tends to reduce is also either quasi-linear or chaotic. Rolf Movement® Practitioner the body into parts. A more fl uid model Water rarely moves in a spiral – unless holds new possibilities, not only for our you classify a turbulent vortex as a spiral. movement but for all healing. Response • Forms such as cochlea, DNA, and To follow are specific responses to Dear Adjo, perhaps seashells solve a distinct your points: problem: How to squeeze an immense Yes, all language is abstraction. The use As to the nature of water, new theories length into a small volume. of “spiral” was our best shot at fi nding of embryogenesis and books such as a word that invoked the many varied • A Chinese finger trap returns to its Water Sound and Image by Alexander curves, ellipses, and ovoid shapes that are original shape not so much because Lauterwasser (translated from the German observed in nature. Why? Because we are of its helix form as because of the by Gunter Maria Zielke and interpreted seeking a model of human movement that inherent elasticity of its materials: the by Jeff Volk. MACROmedia Publishing, is compatible with the rest of the animal original design of the material as living New Hampshire, USA, 2006) and Sensitive and natural world. vegetation was for its function as an Chaos by Theodor Schwenk (Rudolph elastic lever in an elastic framework. We are also seeking a model that allows Steiner press, 1st English Ed. 1965) make for and works with the most variety and a point that the movement of water is complexity of action. Of course we are highly ordered. 2 Structural Integration / June 2010 www.rolf.org LETTERS/COLUMNS A hurricane is neither out of equilibrium a certain spring and spring back within our As much as I desire acceptance, nor is it a catastrophe until humans call form. The individual fi bers of the fi nger trap understanding, and elucidation from the it that for destroying their structures. are inherently not very stretchy for strength, scientifi c world, I cannot court its favor at Its overall movement pattern is helical much like collagen, and yet the shape of the price of my own vision. If Dr. Rolf had as seen when water goes down a drain. the counter-rotating helical construction waited to express her viewpoint until she Whenever moving forces come in contact allows the trap to shrink when lengthened was assured validation by the scientific with resistance they create chaotic eddies. or be bent in any direction and return to its world, we would not have the body of work So yes, the closeup view of a hurricane is original shape.