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Rolfing is an alternative medical treatment marketed by the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration.〔 The Institute states that Rolfing is a "holistic system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organize(s) the whole body in gravity". Rolfing is the most publicly known brand〔 of Structural Integration and is essentially identical to it. There is insufficient evidence to claim that Rolfing is effective for the treatment of any health condition〔 and it has been characterized as a pseudoscience. ==History and development== Ida Pauline Rolf began working on clients in New York in the 1930s with the premise that the human structure could be organized "in relation to gravity". In the 1950s Rolf was teaching her work across the United States, and in the mid-1960s she began teaching at Esalen Institute, where she created a loyal following of students and practitioners.〔 Esalen was the epicenter of the Human Potential Movement, allowing Rolf to exchange ideas with many of their leaders, including Fritz Perls.〔 In 1971 she founded the Rolf Institute of Structural Integration.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Business Search (search for 'Rolf Institute') )〕 The school has been based in Boulder, Colorado since 1972. Structural Integration incorporates a number of varied techniques and theories including osteopathy,〔 (including cranial osteopathy),〔 yoga,〔 and Alfred Korzybski's general semantics.〔 In addition to the Rolf Institute, whose graduates can use the term "Certified Rolfer", a number of other schools of Structural Integration certify "Practitioners of the Rolf Method of Structural Integration". A professional membership organization exists called the International Association of Structural Integration. These schools include the Guild for Structural Integration, Hellerwork Structural Integration,〔〔〔 Aston Patterning,〔〔 SOMA,〔 KMI,〔 and over a dozen other Structural Integration schools.〔 Rolfers and some experts in alternative medicine describe Rolfing as somatic education and use terms such as "bodywork" to describe the hands-on portion of the process. Some factions of the massage industry claim that Rolfing is a type of massage.〔 The massage tradition has drawn significantly from Rolfing, with some of Ida Rolf's students leaving to become prominent teachers of massage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rolfing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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