What if there was a simple solution for the many mechanical problems of the human body?

What if there was a way to systematically reposition the human body with simple manual and cognitive methods, to increase functionality and even reduce pain?

Research is beginning to reveal what manual therapy practicioners and their clients have observed for generations. We deal with pain, but we "don't stop there".

Emily D Gordon has been in practice since 2000, and spent six years completing her Rolfing® Certification in Munich and contracting with the US Army to provide bodywork for Soldiers and civilians. Emily brings practical solutions from trigger point, structural integration and European osteopathy to her private practice at 250 East 6th Street in Frederick, MD behind Acupuncture and Natural Health.

• Here is an article in the Frederick News-Post about Rolfing® here in Frederick.
• Here is the main Rolfing® web site.
• Here is the European Rolfing® web site
  I got Basic certified in Munich and transferred to US membership.
• My Advanced certification is through the US Rolf Institute of Structural Integration.
• Four Reasons to Try Rolfing®
• Why lengthening your hamstrings, can help your neck pain
• Scoliosis Management

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Where Does Your Back Go When It Goes Out? Ask An Expert : Jeffrey Maitland, Ph.D, Certified Advanced Rolfer, Author Of Spacious Body (North Atlantic)

How many times have you heard this surprised comment from a friend? You know, I was just bending over to pick up something, when all of a sudden I felt something slip in my lower back and the next thing I know I am on my knees in terrible pain! "There are many explanations for how the spine gets in trouble, but one of the more common causes of back pain is a joint restriction", says Jeffrey Maitland, a board-certified diplomate at the Academy of Pain Management. "When this occurs ... (continue reading Maitland's article)

Alternative Sports Medicine:
Dr. Jim Montgomery, an Olympic MD and Orthopedic surgeon at Dallas’ Orthopedic
Specialists, says, "I send people with all kinds of problems to Rolfers. People with
shoulder problems, with scar tissue after injury, low back problems, cervical spine, and
shoulder and elbows problems. People that have had chronic problems that have not been
helped by anything else. I think Rolfing is something that should be entertained by any of
these people. If they had chronic hamstring problems, chronic shoulder problems for a
long period time. All those people can be helped." (continue reading Dr Jim's article)

Repetitive Stress Injury Costs Reduced with Rolfing®
Starkey credits Certified Advanced Rolfer, Siana Goodwin's effective use of
Rolfing bodywork techniques, with employees affected by RSI, as a significant
factor in their success. "Rolfing systematically works with the connective tissues
surrounding muscles, relieve stresses, increase muscle function and efficiency,
and helps change harmful patterns of body use that contribute to physical
discomfort," states Goodwin who works on-site in Starkey's employee-based
wellness program, "Genesis".
Rolfing can be an economical alternative to surgery. (Continue reading the Starkey article)

Practice Got Him Into Carnegie Hall, Repetitive Stress Syndrome Kept Him
Out; Leon Fleisher’s Story
Boulder, CO...Good Morning America, People magazine, Dateline, and the New York
Times reported in ‘'97 that Rolfing® structural integration enabled Leon Fleisher, a
Peabody virtuoso concert pianist to make a 30 year comeback from a repetitive stress
injury (RSI). "When a crippling hand injury ended his performing career, Peabody
pianist, Leon Fleisher went down a different musical road. Thirty years later, he's turned
up an unexpected corner (when he met Certified Advanced Rolfer, Tessy
Brungart)...The (Rolfing) results were remarkable." John Hopkins magazine, 1995.
Read More about Leon Fleischer's Story
More about Leon Fleischer in NY Times

Rolfing® Redefines The Art Of Making People Beautiful
Just as the fashion industry is coming up with new couture styles, Rolfing is painting a new look,
in a manner as novel as their approach to bodywork. Whether it was a coincidence of timing or
twist of fate, Rolfing has found itself redefining the art of making people beautiful with it’s
unique style of bodywork, called structural integration. Proven to have real staying power,
Rolfing is winning over skeptics in the world of Hollywood and fashion, where posture, balance,
and ease of movement are all part of the formula of looking good.

In “Harper’s Bazaar” magazine, fashion designer, Isaac Mizrahi recommended Rolfing as a way to
prepare yourself to feel more beautiful and glamorous. When it comes to improved posture, Rolfing
leads the way in teaching us the art of rebalancing the body’s structure.

It works.
Please don't expect any manual therapy to substitute for needed medical intervention.
Truly holistic medicine means that the most effective, conservative interventions possible are all considered.