Frank Epstein
My job is to facilitate physical change that alleviates pain while allowing your body freer movements and better alignment.
Learn MoreAt Rolfing Iowa my goal is to bring your body into a new alignment that improves physical abilities and establishes better balance and greater flexibility. By releasing the deep soft tissue of the body, you will feel relief from chronic tension and back pain. You'll enjoy increased energy, ease of movement, improved posture and a sense of emotional wellbeing. If you've been participating in other bodywork modalities for pain relief with little success,Rolfing can give you the results you desire.
Using the traditional 10 series guide, physical pressure is used to stretch and organize the conncective tissue, allowing for more efficient, flexible movement.
With this kind of spotwork, the goal is to get as much relief as possible into an area of strain in a single session.
In contrast to traditional massage therapy, I offer neuromuscular and myofascial release. A good starting point for traditional Rolfing®.
Developed in the 1950s as way to "unlock" pain, Rolfing® (named for its founder, Ida Rolf) is distinct from massage and chiropractic work.
Rolfing® Structural Integration "rebalances" muscles and manipulates fascia – the sheath-like connective tissue that surrounds and binds muscles together – that has been pulled out of position by strain, stress or injury.
With structural integration, you can: