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Erik Dalton Structural Integration Techniques

Why Dalton? In exploring the field of bodywork, there are dozens of teachers and professionals to complain to the depth, in the literal sense of "deeper into the body." Dalton method is called Myoskeletal Alignment Technique (MAT) surely by the same name claims to be more profound than, for example, myofascial Anyone who is or Neuro Muscular Whoosis. I guess if you follow this controversy, which would with chiropractors as the rulers of the depth, because they deal in line with the deepest level of the tissues discussed above, the bones and ligaments around the bones. However, I'm not going there. On the one hand, my intuition is reluctant to characterize the chiropractors as a group – But some professionals sensitive and nuanced individual method may be – as teachers of healing deep. On the other hand, want to focus on the domain of soft tissue manipulation.

In the realm of the current resurrection of the soft tissues in the hands-on healing, structural integration (Rolfing and its derivatives, the beneficiaries of Ida Rolf, Ph.D.) have received wide support – correctly or not – and go deeper in the body, among the many methods available. Sometimes this evaluation is done with admiration and times in sentence – "Oh, yes, Rolfing – not that the technique in which tear the bones and muscles make you scream for your mother? Dalton is one of the successors Ida Rolf, who is making a separate claim to the depth of the tissue in his teaching, so let us hear your story briefly, he said, and see what We can illustrate the depth of healing in general.
From the outset, let me be clear that I am not saying that the work of Dalton MAT is a knock-off of Rolfing. Each of the beneficiaries of Ida Rolf – even those who claim his mantle – you have based on his work and made innovations (and perhaps even lost part of its broader perspective, despite they admit it?). In the case of Erik Dalton, although some of the art and prospects may have changed since its formation in 1983 Rolfing. Additions and changes came from further self-exploration after an injury, osteopathy, and the leading researcher of the soft tissues Czech, Vladimir Janda, MD

This shows the other Dalton structural integrity is the concept, as its ads proclaim, from "Do not take the pain!" MAT focuses on prevention – recognizing strain patterns, says Dalton, before becoming a pain patterns. Of course there are many similarities in the emphasis on the use of good body, paying attention to the tissues and working with the response of Golgi tendon organs, and obviously the goal of total body alignment and ease. When Dalton begins to carve its own track is what workers of the soft tissues closer to the individual facets in the spine joint. ? In late 1980, Dalton received two martial arts injury: one of the ligaments of the lower back, and another, much more serious was an undisplaced fracture at C4-5 that occurred when he tried to resist a judo throw and landed in his head. Even after the injury wearing a halo to stabilize his neck, had a constant pain radiating down his right arm. As Rolfing practitioner, maintained clearance and tissue work around his own neck and upper back, which would be a temporary relief, but soon the pain of the drive-you-crazy had returned, and Dalton was looking for the miracle that it remove more permanently.

Dalton miracle came, in fact, from their own hands. One morning, opening the way through the paravertebral muscles, he found lumps, such as bone in the soft tissue down near the level of the joint capsule in the deeper layers of the multifidus and rotator muscles, the knots that he had not encountered before. "As an experiment," Dalton wrote in his manual, Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques, "little by little I began to apply continuous pressure directly to one of the knots of bone in the lamina groove on the level C5-6. Immediately, he felt as if the vertebral segment was pushing me. My fingers resisted the back bone in the same way he had endured at work often deep tendon before. To my surprise, the bone responded in much the same way that the tendons – he retired. As the vertebra is removed gradually took over and I waited to kick against my fingers. "

Dalton continued to evaluate this process in-depth exploration of resistance and after taking up the slack, adding a respiratory component, in collaboration with the breath until the knot was gone and the bone had been resolved. Dalton worked in a few more of these knots in the next quarter of an hour, and then, feeling that his body had had enough and left him alone to an agreement. Since that day, decreased pain and improved its role, however his trip to understand what had happened was just beginning.

Finally, more work and research, Dalton realized Packages that fibrosis in the fourth layer of the spinal musculature – the deeper layers of the transversospinalis – were key to the analysis and treatment of dysfunction underlying vertebral. This makes the relationship between bone manipulation – osteopathy and chiropractic – and soft tissue work massage therapists and therapists. Dalton's work focuses on the usual balance myofascial that target structural integrators, in addition to this layer almost musculo-ligamentous bone – a bone " intention "to see a bone and soft tissue – the deepest layer, and a layer of slow change, no doubt, but still a layer of connective tissue. This is of course, the real fact, but the artificial division between hard and soft tissues is what has directed most of our education, and gave rise to some separation between those who work with (chiropractors and osteopaths) and those working with the other (masseurs and therapists). Dalton's work for further progress deeply to the union between the two, start to close the gap.

The closing of the gap without crossing it, as Dalton is quick to point out. "One of the things separating the MAT method to other procedures, "he writes," is the emphasis on restoration of function of the joint capsule, especially restoration of joint play capsular joint. Cleary, all our joints have a capsule of some sort, often consisting of fiber, fat, membranous or cartilage. Although massage therapy schools often teach as treatments for the glenohumeral joint, temporomandibular clavicular or knees, MAT techniques "are intended mainly to the joints of the spine, ribs and sacroiliac capsules" Dalton says. "Although capsular routines are an important part of our program, I want to stay away from comparing the MAT program to chiropractic." Dalton devotes a large space in your manual to separate the two. "We try to restore mobility to the soft tissues of the joint capsule. By applying pressure to the pillars joints of the cervical spine, our intention is not only mobilize the joint capsule, but to help release muscles intertransverse fourth layer like that often cause joint fixations. "Therapists should not delve into the intertransverse, because the neural structures around the transverse processes, but very important, often hypertonic muscles need to work to help restore the function of the cervix, "he continues." Therefore, use bones as levers to release these difficult to mobilize the soft tissues. This is a separate concept of chiropractic, when his attention is focused on location of the injury until dysfunctional and push the joint in a physiological range of motion not to unlock jammed facets often caused by adhesions repeated friction articular cartilage. Rules] The [American Massage Therapy Association made it clear that massage therapists are not allowed to take the joint in a non-physiological range of motion. Intentionally not disobey this rule, and this is what keeps Myoskeletal Techniques in the field of massage therapy practice. "

While focusing on these specific and deep soft tissues, Dalton maintains a comprehensive approach: "My intention is to help therapists today to recognize that most of these chronic pain problems are much more involved that trigger points [or] muscle toxicity. Concentrate on the neck and disruption again, try to teach it a waste of time to see chronic pain as coming from a single structure. So we use () Janda muscle imbalance theories working techniques in the ligaments and capsule release to achieve that goal. "? Dalton most distinguished of both Rolfing and chiropractic in two ways. One is through its concentration on the order assessing muscle power during walking (developed by Janda, although the treatment is specific to Dalton). It also differs work through techniques to generate muscle tone by stimulating spindle techniques (see body language, "C", November / December 2000), and rubbing techniques specifically designed to stimulate the proliferation of fibers in the capsule loose ligaments. Although proximal and distal syndromes cross Janda – looking for patterns that likely contain muscle strain patterns that lead to patterns of pain – They are a very important element in the work of soft tissue to be taken into account in a later column. At this time, we wanted to explore unique contribution Erik Dalton to depth.

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