Rolfing is practiced and applied throughout the world and is a registered service mark in more than 27 countries. It is estimated that more than one million people have received Rolfing work.
Here are just a few voices about Rolfing:
”Athletes always need help with chronic injuries, muscular strains and
overuse. The Olympic athletes wouldn’t have as many injuries if they
had appropriate soft tissue therapy. Rolfing is valuable for athletes in
high level competition to address the build up of scar tissue and
disarrangement of myofascial tissue that occurs from training, competition and injury. ”
Karlis Ullis, M.D., (team physician for 1992 summer Olympics),
Sports Medicine and Anti-Aging Medical Group in Santa Monica, CA, USA
”Rolfing helped me to find my center of balance for competition; it puts my body in place.”
Figure skater Elvis Stojko (Michelle Kwan’s partner on ice and in Rolfing)
1998 Olympic Silver Medalists
”I am 73 years old and have advanced scoliosis, which the Rolfing treatments have definitely begun to help. One of my friends who had not seen me for awhile remarked on my better posture without my telling her why.”
Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom, President, Moore Vocal Arts
”I send a variety of my clients to a Certified Advanced Rolfer… People with shoulder and elbow problems, with scar tissue resulting from injury or surgery, chronic hamstring problems, low back and cervical spine problems. People that have had chronic problems that have not been helped by anything else. All those people can be helped with Rolfing.”
Jim Montgomery, orthopedic surgeon, Olympic M.D.
”Rolfing is an excellent preventative treatment of chronic problems”,
Gerold Schwartz, orthopaedist and team physician of the national league-soccer player of the HSV. Stern, Extract from 17 February 2004
”…when Ida Rolf integrates structure, as nobody else can, she improves functioning … Rolfing was a revealing and unforgettable experience for me.”
Moshe Feldenkrais
”My wife recommended (Rolfing) highly … the first of ten sessions fixed (my back pain).”
Willie Nelson, singer and songwriter, New York Times, 23 February 1995