Rolfing

Rolfing é uma forma de medicina alternativa criada por Ida Rolf (1896–1979) com a denominação Integração Estrutural. Consiste geralmente numa série de dez sessões de manipulação física com as mãos denominada de "receita". Baseia-se nas ideias de Rolf sobre os benefícios do alinhamento do campo gravitacional da Terra com um suposto "campo de energia" do corpo humano. Os praticantes combinam terapia manual superficial e profunda e estímulos de movimento. O processo é por vezes doloroso.

Os princípios do rolfing contrariam os fundamentos da medicina e não existe qualquer evidência de que seja eficaz no tratamento de qualquer condição de saúde. É considerado uma pseudociência e tem sido caracterizado como charlatanismo. Desconhece-se a sua segurança.

Referências

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  9. ↑ Cordón, LA (janeiro de 2005), «Rolfing», ISBN 978-0-313-32457-4, Greenwood Publishing Group, Popular Psychology: An Encyclopedia, pp. 217–218: "The idea of vital energy... does not correspond to known facts of how the human body operates. Similarly, there is absolutely no support in psychological literature for the idea of traumatic experiences being repressed in the form of muscle memory, and so the basic ideas of Rolfing certainly fall into the category of pseudoscience."
  10. ↑ Dan Agin (27 de novembro de 2007). Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us. [S.l.]: St. Martin's Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4668-3853-6
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