Structural Integration is the process of therapy giving the body the ability to move in gravity with balance and strength. The administration of the work is the manipulation of the body’s soft connective tissue, also called fascia. Fascia encases each of the muscle fibers, bundles, and the whole of the muscle itself. It also encases the bones, tendons and ligaments. This fascia is a web-like structure that is both strong and pliable. This web is a three-dimensional structure that is based on the principle of many components held together by a tensional pattern. The components work together to form the entire structure to move in the gravitational field of earth.
Fascia, as it encases the muscles, allows the many layers of muscles to slide over each other, for smooth uninhibited extension and stronger, balanced flexion. When injured from impact trauma, postural habits and repetitive stress, that tissue becomes dense, gluing the muscles together, inhibiting movement, compressing the joints, and stressing tendons and ligaments. The three-dimensional web bends and deforms as one component weakens and the other components contort to withstand the excess weight while maintaining the tensional balance; leaving the entire structures in an unnatural and strained form. Structural Integration works to take that tissue back to its normal balanced place in the web and allow the body to move and flow in gravity rather than against it. Structural Integration works to renew and restore the whole of the body.
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