For the umpteenth time on a recent afternoon, Ethan Todd sprang to his feet and reached for a toy truck. And for the umpteenth time, the 5-year-old boy's thin legs buckled and collapsed. The San Mateo ...

Rolfing isn't what you think; I promise. Although the word sounds unfortunately like what can happen during a bout of nausea, Rolfing is actually a deep-tissue technique (practitioners don't call it ...

Rolfing was invented by Ida P. Rolf, a graduate of Barnard College with a doctorate in biological chemistry from Columbia University. In the 1940s she moved to California to study with osteopaths and ...

For more than 20 years, Robin Kratschmer has known the path her career would take. While living in the Midwest in 1980, Kratschmer attended a lecture on Rolfing, a bodywork theory that claims to make ...

The human body is intricately designed, and researchers are just beginning to grasp some of its complexities. But just as ...