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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Back Trouble
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 21:01:36 EST
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> Oh, PLEASE don't try rolfing!  Not if your back already hurts badly.
> Rolfing is a very violent rearrangement of muscles, and if you have
> something wrong with your back (disk out of place, or some such),
> rolfing may make it worse.  
> 
	Rolfing is painful.  Try Alexander or Feldenkrais.  Both
are gentle but extremely powerful methods of bodywork.  The work
is on the muscles and not the spine itself.  The theory is the
the spine is flexible and that the way a person carries themselves
is responsible for pain.  

	Feldenkrais has had an amazing affect on my entire posture.
At one time my feet pointed more outwards.  This forces my pelivis
in a weird postion.  It has not caused me any problems, but when
I was taking lessons in non-verbal communication from a mime, he
pointed it out and suggested a chiropracter.   I met a person that
does Feldenkrais work and in one session my feet started pointing
forward like they should and my whole body evened out.  

	My wife has serious scoliosious (curved spine).   Only a few
sessions have almost permenently straightened her out.

	It is the opinion of people who do Feldenkrais body
work or Alexander body word, that chiropracters are dangerous.
They actually manipulate the skeleton and can cause serious 
permenent damage.   Straightening the skelton fixes the symptom,
not the cause.

	Feldenkrais wrote a book of exercises called:

	Awarness Through Movement
	Moshe Feldenkrais
	Harper and Row

	He wrote a book that is about  his basic philosophy with
some exercises called:

	The Elusive Obvious
	Moshe Feldenkrais

	this book and a book about the Feldenkrais method, 
"The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching by Handling", by Rywerant
are available from:

	Grinder, DeLozier & Associates
	110 Kenny Court
	Santa Cruz, Calif. 95065

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