Project: UCLA Department of Kinesiology; five year study conducted by Dr. Valerie Hunt and Dr. Wayne Massey; “A Study of Structural Integration from Neuromuscular, Energy Field and Emotional Approaches” completed in 1977.

There were measurements before and after Rolfing of anxiety states, brain hemisphere activity, energy field photography, DC recordings of energy flow in electrical voltage readings, EMG recordings from sixteen separate muscles, electromyograms of neuromuscular patterning of energy, and electronic auric field study.Result: This five-year study produced many results, difficult to summarize adequately in a brief statement. These are a few of the outstanding results:

Greater physical skill
Emotional calmness; decrease in anxiety state
Improved social interaction
Feelings of well being
Memory recall
Enhanced ability to access different states of consciousness
Increasing right hemisphere brain dominance when needed for right brain activity
Evidence of changes in ways of processing data and the nature of thought processes that ensue
Greater movement efficiency
More energy; less fatigue
Improved neuromuscular balance
Greater energy flow and balanced distribution of energy

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Robert Schleip, PhD and Rolf Institute faculty, offers the latest research on fascia and its implications for Rolfing at www.fasciaresearch.com and www.somatics.de