The work of Erik Dalton is driven by Rolfing, and Janda and CCP, paradigms I use in my clinical practice, this will lead you down the road of success. You must differentiate between Postural and volunatry.
http://erikdalton.com/
The work I rely on is from the Somatic Articles Library.
http://www.somatics.de/articlesprof.html
It is run by one of the top Rolfers, Robert Schleip.
Gravity receptors are not in any book of anatomy or physiology, they are however real and have been identified. The information is new, but not unknown
All fascia gets the garbage bucket in dissections. That is one huge loss for medicine for almost 100 years, save Ida Rolf.
They used to think Rolfing was mainly a gel/sol relationship of the colloid properties of the fascia. Since the receptors of the fascial web were only identified in 2005, it was only at that point the unknown neurological componet, but suspected by Ida Rolf, that the neurological system was identified. Rolfing does not work on tissue that is anesthtised. That is the fascial autonomic receptor feedback loop shut down. That is the gravity receptors in action and taken out of action and proof Rolfing is neurological as Ida said but could not prove.
http://www.fasciaresearch.de/ProjectInterimReport04.pdf
A quote from the Neurology of Posture
Schleip’s Contributions
Robert Schleip has been at the forefront of our community for years in searching for the
neurological role in the changes that take place during manipulation of fascia. He is
also, no doubt, a Google Master. In his paper “Fascial plasticity – a new neurobiological
explanation: Part 1”22 he puts forth an argument which examines the possible role of
Group IV mechanoreceptors in changes which occur during manipulation.
Group IV fibers play a large role in my discussion: however, I will focus on their
nociceptive/inflammatory properties. Inflammation within the nerve trunk may cause
changes in the body habitus, as I have noted, by creating tensile structural elements
from nerve trunks, and, I will argue, by exciting motor neurons carried in those nerve
trunks, causing contraction in the muscles they innervate.
http://www.somatics.de/Hazen/HazenNeurologyPosture.pdf
Hence those gravity receptors, called mechnoreceptors here, control the habitual posture, albeit in muscle. Your approach was via the voluntary nervous system, that is the failure. One must override the autonomics. This system resides in the fascia as Ida Rolf knew, but could not prove. All postural work is autonomic. The voluntary musculskeletal system will never correct postural dysfunction. It is governed by the autonomics. One must either use tensegrity self correction, or autonomic correction via rolfing. The huge paradigm of the Matrix Repattering is that Tensegrity controls the receptors somehow....that I still need to work out, but is a fact. Sure we can Rolf you can do the same thing with the autonomics, but finding the primary restriction via tensegrity inhibition testing, will correct things at an amazing rate in seconds, not hours.
go here for the full text of the “Fascial plasticity – a new neurobiological
explanation:
http://www.somatics.de/FascialPlasticity/main.htm
My own work in this field is 15 years. I have the clinical success and the knowledge. I also have the up to date facts. Posted in this thread. These receptor feedback mechanisms are vital to a proper knowledge of the neurology of posture.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/forum/phpB ... 44&start=0
This is my own compilation of Biophysics chapter in my thesis on my own therapy in the thread posted.
My own contribution to the soft tissue classical mess is Tensional Integration Systems Therapy.
It is a combination of about 12 tensional approaches from Chiropractic to Rolfing and everything in between including Matrix Repatterning.
It is the Jeet Kune Do of Soft Tissue Therapy. Comparative methodology shows that all successful therapies are tension based, that makes sense if the body is a tensegrity structure. I merely put them all together.
here is a quote from page two of the thread in Human section of the EU. Hint, Interstital muscle receptors is a fancy way for saying, in the fascia.
junglelord wrote:GEODESIC FRAMEWORK OF THE CYTOSKELETON:
Triangular, octahedral and tetrahedral forms are self organizing patterns in all biological structures for they represent the best organization of least energy (energy efficient) and mass (size) through structures of continuous tension and local compression, that is through tensegrity. The geodesic dome structure found within the cytoskeleton is a classic example of a recurrent pattern that is found everywhere in nature. Tensegrity structures that are coupled together act as a single structure and will transmitt tension as a coupled tuned response. This means that our bodies vibrate at a molecular level and areas of increased tension or compression resonate as discord in what is intended to be a symphony of tuned responses. In terms of electronic circuits this ability for two separate circuits to resonate at one harmonic frequency is called a “tuned - coupled harmonic oscillator”. Many biolgical structures are tuned this way such as DNA, RNA, proteins, organs, fascia, in fact all levels of connective tissue. The fact that bone acts like so many tiny diodes (semi-conductors) is an example of electro-magnetic fields related solely to tension and compression that organize structure and remodeling of bone and cellular activity (Wolf’s Law). The tension provided by micofilaments pulling inward to wards the cell nucleus causes microfilaments, microtubuels and intermediate filaments combined with the microtrabecular lattice to self organize as a geodesic dome structure.
RECEPTORS:
Your intrafusal muscle fibers also called your muscle spindles are responsible for monitoring muscle resting length and active length has two separate subdivisions, the annulosprial type Ia which monitors change in length and rate of change and a type II also called the flowerspray ending which is probably responsible for the flexor reflex/extensor withdrawal. Your golgi tendon organs or type Ib are responsible for monitoring tension and will inhibit a muscle if the tension is a danger to the tendon. This receptor population of muscle spindle 1a + II and gto Ib only accounts for ¼ of the receptor population that conveys information to the brain and spinal cord. PNF techniques, Muscle Energy, Strain/Counterstrain are all therapies that engage and retrain these receptors to respond in a more functional manner and are extremely effective. An advanced approach to these therapies is to assess postural verses mobilizers of the musculoskeletal system and treat postural muscle with spindle/gto reflex arcs first if they present as short and weak.
Dr. Essfeld of the university of Cologne Munich has documented the presence of INTERSTITAL MUSCLE RECEPTORS which he classified as type III and type IV receptors. Based on a population density model these receptors total ¾ of the poulation verses spindles and gto. These receptors act as gravity receptors and are responsible for the information about the body within a gravitational field. The presence of these fascial based gravity receptors and the model and goal of Ida Rolf was the alignment of the fascial system within a gravitational field is a ovbious example of science proving what certain people knew all along. The research into these receptors began as part of NASA and the European Space Agency to study the effects of a zero G enviroment on the body and the receptors that gathered that information, these receptors had been overlooked in dissection all these years, but histological study has reveled the fascial sensory system or gravity receptors and are classified as type III and type IV. These receptors relate information to the cardiovascular reflex control via the medulla that stimulates blood supply to muscles via vasomotor response at the precapillary sphincter of the capillary bed. Pacinian and Ruffini receptors integrate their pressure and vibratory information with the gravity receptors to assist via neurological and endocrine response to stimulus and gravitational influences.
GLUING:
Dehydration of the ground substance cause critical interfiber distance between collagen fibers to decrease and the same hydrogen bonds responsible for connective tissue strength leads to chronic gluing of fiber bundles. This situation is facilitated by chronic pressure and chronic immobility so that an area under constant tension or that has fallen into disuse, tends to fall pray to this situation. These adhesion begin to impair the integration of movement patterns and again facilitate the gluing process. This unwanted bonding is one of the major factors in stiffness associated with old age, repeated strain, or poorly healed injuries. For this reason exercise and competent body work are effective at helping to restore optimum function after injury. These excessive deposits of connective tissue can be palpated as thick lumpy bandaging around the joints, as fibrous masses throughout an entire area, or as tough fibrotic ropes and cysts in muscle bellies. Low loads of sustained duration will melt or break hydrogen bonds.
THIXOTROPHY & COLLOID PROPERTIES:
This is the scientific principle of the gel – sol transformation ability of connective tissue and other colloids like common gelatin. It becomes more fluid when stirred up and gels or solidifies when it sits. In the human body the heat and energy of movement is appropriate for the solvent state of connective tissue. With disuse connective tissue becomes stiffer, colder, less energized and thixotrophic effects become evident. There is no way to prevent the eventual effects of aging and the drying and gluing and thixotrophic effects that follow it, but in the case of orthopedic injury these premature situations can be effectively treated. Application of manual therapy generates heat and energy that transforms connective tissue from a gel state (low energy) to a liquid state (high energy).
FLUID CRYSTAL & PIZO - ELECTRICITY:
Connective tissue in it’s many and varied forms is a colloid that at the atomic level is crystalline in form. Collagen was proven to be crystalline in structure due to it’s defraction of x-rays and experimental mathematical data suggest that the CSF in their lumen acts like a coordinated quantum computer transmitting emotion across the body in a new physical understanding of conscience. Bone acts like millions of tiny semi-conductors or diodes that generate weak electrical fields based on the stresses and strains imposed on them that direct osteoclastic and osteoblastic activity or bone modeling. All crystals weather solid or fluid in structure exhibit a natural phenomenon called the pizo – electric effect, that is when compressed they generate a weak electrical and magnetic field with well defined positive and negative domains. A common example of this is a quartz crystal in your watch that keeps the frequency of timing for your integrated circuits. By applying pressure in the form of electricity the crystal vibrates at a specific frequency due to it’s shape and size. Application of manual therapy causes pressure which generates electric and magnetic fields that increase the energy level of connective tissue.
BIOLOGICAL TISSUE AND TENSEGRITY:
For years the medical community has refused to accept the fact that structure is as important as a consideration in medical evaluation as chemical evaluation is. Now it is a powerful fact that physiological events can be understood and corrected, for example the life of a diabetic and the action of insulin. But for some reason the medical community has not given structure or it relationship to function their appropriate place in the treatment of chronic pain. It is also a powerful statement that most medical doctors have no training in treating chronic pain and are wary of alternative therapies. Yet when tensegrity, the triangulated icosahedron and structural tension as transmitted through the body by the myofascial web are considered as powerful scientific and engineering models we find a plausable explanation for the excellent results of many hands on alternative therapies. The web is a continual colloid and a fluid crystal at the cellular level. Pizo-electric effects are a large part of many myofascial therapies as well as the gel – sol transition of connective tissue. Abnormal tension is always transmitted through out the structure and therefore it’s effects can be far reaching. At the cellular level electrical gradients are low and resistance is high in dysfunctional tissue. Current always takes the line of least resistance and therefore bypasses dysfunctional tissue. Low electrical currents form poor physiological processes and life functions from the cell outward are effected. High current devices, ultrasound, and even laser light are often a poor substitute for the electrical and magnetic fields created by the pressure and vector of a trained therapist hands. Math, engineering, electro-magnetic fields, quantum physics, holograph theory, relativity all relate to health.
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