Ideally, you'll also be in less pain. Getting your head, neck, and back into proper alignment are particularly important. You relearn basic movements such as sitting, walking, and getting up from a chair, and then you must coordinate these movements with what's going on in your head. The killer evidence for these claims is still woefully inadequate. If you've ever seen the thin whitish stuff surrounding a piece of steak, that's fascia.
Fascia comes in the form of a single tough sheet that connects everything from head to toe.
This interconnection means that if the fascia gets thick or tense in one area of your body, it could pull on muscles, bones, or nerves somewhere else. This ability of fascia to affect distant areas of the body gave biophysicist Ida Rolf an idea for helping people with chronic pain and tension. Rolf believed that injury, chronic stress, or emotional trauma could make fascia thicker and stickier. Rolfing has the reputation of generating the kind of pain that only a masochist could love. But in the long run, it does seem to help many people relax and move more comfortably, and, in some select cases, may even increase the range of motion of shoulders and other joints.