Dr Luiz Fernando Bertolucci - Tensegrity Touch Workshop

Tensegrity Touch Workshop - Workshop de Toque de Tensegridade
com Dr Luiz Fernando Bertolucci

Fáscia - mecanismo de ação da manipulação fascial - com Dr Luiz Fernando Bertolucci

"Fáscia - mecanismo de ação da manipulação fascial: da química molecular à comunicação celular e sistêmica" com professor Luiz Fernando Bertolucci (Médico Fisiatra e Rolfista)

Palestra realizada na Reunião Anual da ABR (Associação Brasileira de Rolfing)

New research project

We are happy to have engaged a team of high level researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Federal University of ABC (UFABC) interested in better understanding the effects of Tensegrity Touch in the central nervous system. Preliminary results using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have shown a decrease in the excitability of the motor cortex, what is in accordance with our initial hypothesis. Possibly this effect inhibits the inhibition of cortical structures over lower centres, especially the lymbic system, facilitating the expression of the auto-regulatory spontaneous motor activity it encodes. 

2019: Three classes certificated

Students of three Tensegrity Touch classes were certified, having completed the three modules of Introduction to TT: In June in Madrid, and in November in Curitiba and in São Paulo. The feedback we heard about the use of TT by those students were indeed encouraging! More and more we can enjoy witnessing the power of our auto-regulatory resources!

Additional aspects of Tensegrity Touch revealed

Two classes have been recently taught in Madrid. Module I (June 30 and July 1-2) with 20 students and module II (July 6-8) with 15 students and the overall impression is that TT is somehow bringing indeed a new fashion of treatment in evoking the client's involuntary motor auto-regulatory behaviours (pandiculation) and can be considered as a neuro-myofascial approach. Those responses can contribute to the benefit of both, client and therapist: they bring efficacy to the miofascial component of the treatment and allow for the freeing forces to be steered in remote regions of the clients' body. Additionally, the therapist also has, making part of a single tensegrity system along with the client, the possibility to improve his own postural tonic function and hence degree of tensegrity. It seems to be a gain-gain way to play with our natural salutogenic resources!

The feedback of the clinical experiences of last year's students were indeed encouraging and continuing classes have already been scheduled for 2019, including Module III, in which, besides additional manoeuvres, the clinical practice will be in focus. Thanks a lot for Florence Cohen for having put together these classes!

TT classes taught in Spain and Poland

We started a new TT class in Madrid, in May 12-14 and the feedback has been very encouraging. Another class has also been started in Poznan, Poland, where we´ve been teaching since 2011. Continuing classes are planned for 2018.

2016 Tensegrity Touch new research project

We are starting a new research project at the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, in which we plan to measure the degree of tensegrity with accelerometry during the TT maneuvres, along with the monitoring of muscle activity with EMG (electromyography). 

Our hypothesis is that, besides the already described involuntary muscle activity during the maneuvres, we would detect a change in the patterns of muscle recruitment after the maneuvres, namely, a rise in the tonic activity and possibly a decrease of phasic activity. Let us see!