If you've had an injury in the past and you didn't have massage therapy at the time, your body changed structurally to accommodate and protect the injured area. Consequently, you still carry that injury with you as scar tissue or as patterns of inflexibility where the connective tissue or fascia have shortened and literally stuck together. Structural reintegration or deep tissue work--Rolfing, Hellerwork--can correct these longstanding body imbalances by lengthening the connective tissue holding onto these ancient rigidities.
Deep tissue work breaks down scar tissues and returns mobility to the fascia (myofascia, hence myotherapy), releasing old injuries and releasing long-carried physical trauma. Thus, structural reintegration is a powerful physical and emotional experience for practitioner and client alike. And psychically as well, if you're sensitive to such things. In my case, though I was a marathon runner and had run marathon distance a dozen times, my injuries finally happened at the site of my decades-old tailbone injury. Rolfing helped me heal.
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