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How do bodies become unbalanced? How do we lose our wholeness?
From a purely mechanical perspective, distortions are the result of the remarkable plasticity of the body, the tendency of fascia, the connective tissue which envelops, the muscles and which gives the body shape, to be remolded by applied force. The primary force comes from repeated patterns self-use – the way an individual walks, sits, or sleeps. These patterns, which are generally established in infancy, draw heavily on parental example and on other environmental factors like diapers, shoes, and school desks. Inefficient patterns of behavior set themselves in the fascial network as unbalanced patterns of structure.
Distortions also enter our plastic bodies through accidents: a fall from a bicycle, for example, that twists a knee, causing a limp for a few weeks. The shifting of weight to the strong leg restructures the play of muscular effort not only in the legs but through the pelvis up the spine, eventually throughout the whole body. Although the limp seems to disappear as the knee strengthens, the system of compensations leaves its imprint in a broad complex pattern of shortened fascia.
Patterns of imbalance tend to reinforce themselves; they feel comfortable and natural – balanced, in fact. Over the years they deepen by repetition, and the weight centers more progressively further from die vertical axis. Gravity becomes an increasingly destructive force and we lose our structural integrity and wholeness of health.
Massage therapy and the ROLFING® TECHNIQUE at CLM Wellness Therapies can help rebalance the body by working fascial network In a carefully worked-out sequence of manipulations to reverse the randomizing influence of the environment, moving tissue back toward the symmetry and balance that the architecture of the body so clearly calls for in order to be whole, healthy, and functional.
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