The prevalence and enormity of this tissue can really be appreciated if we consider that the normal shape, form, and contour of the body would be maintained by the myofascial connective tissues after all the other tissues have been removed. It is an array of atoms, ions, molecules in a three dimensional pattern. It is a functional field of recurrent, radiant energy. When you change and re-mold the shape and configuration of a random structure into a more vertically appropriate pattern within Gravity, everything about that structure and its vitality renews, improves, and revivifies. The traditional allopathic view of diagnosis and prognosis deals with treating the symptoms and does not ultimately deal with treating the cause.
Structure has to do with cause.
If you change and modify the shape of the structure, you can effect and eliminate causal relationships. Alleviating symptoms and pathology is neither the focus nor the goal of Rolfing, balancing and aligning human structures in Gravity is. Rolfing perceives the human body not as a group of parts, but instead as an aggregate of parts existing as a total system of interdependent relationships residing within a single, whole, collective relationship. Rolfing will facilitate organization of the body s relationship with Gravity so that the larger field of energy, called Gravity, will support, uplift, maintain, and sustain the much smaller field of energy, which is man. Conversely, trauma to any system creates imbalance.