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Rolfing

In alternative medicine, technique of deep muscular manipulation developed in the 1960s and 1970s by US biochemist and therapist Ira Rolf (1869–1979). Also known as ‘structural integration’, the treatment is designed to correct gravitational imbalance in body postures and movements, and to relieve muscular rigidities and inflexibilities, thus enhancing general health and vitality.



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