University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1982
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Critics say treatment often very painful Rolfing treatment is debatable
By LINDA LANG Staff Reporter
Doris Henton has "a couple of curtures and a twist" in her back, which have caused her discomfort and made her movement as long as she can remember.
"There is no way it can ever be cured. I have learned to live with it," the 64-year-old Lawrence resident said recently.
She obtained some relief through manipulation of her back by Forrest "Phog" Allen, a KU basketball coach who was a registered osteoplast. After his death in the early 1970s, she could not find help anywhere else.
Four years ago she heard about Rolff through a friend at work. Larry Redding was setting up a Roff. Rolff had always been, and Henton became his first client.
Redding said he used his fingers, open palm, fists, wrists and an occasional elbow to manipulate the soft connective tissue under the skin. This tissue, called fascia, envelopes the muscles and gives the body shape.
Rolfers apply pressure to the fascia to get the hardened, stuck places to
move and glide, Redding said. It is a technique to reorder the body toward vertical alignment and make movement simpler and more direct.
Henton said she thought Rolfing was one of the best things people could do for themselves.
"IT MADE ME stand straighter, sit
straighther and walk better," she said.
There was an expansion of my diary,
later strained, and I still have good breathing.
About 300 Rolfers have been trained since the founding of the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colo., in 1972, according to statistics from the institute.
THE INSTITUTE is named for Ida Rolf, who the last years of her life perfecting and teaching the technique. She held a doctorate in biological chemistry from the College of Surgery and Surgeons of Columbia University.
Advocates of Roffing say it relieves aches and pains that traditional medicine cannot. They also say that they can relieve breathing, circulation and posture.
Critics of the practice say Rolfing is painful, often intensely so.
A poll of 10 doctors and instructors of physical therapy failed to turn up the results.
the benefits and drawbacks of Rolfing.
Redding was a school psychologist for the Topeka public schools at the time he decided to study Rolfing. He said he studied biology, chemistry, anatomy and massage therapy to be admitted to the institute.
AT THE INSTITUTE, he learned the Rofing sequence, which "is a systematic way of freeing up stuck places," he said. The sequence consists of 10 sessions lasting from 60 to 90 minutes each.
Redding said some of his clients had persistent headaches, joint dysfunctions or chronic pain. Others have conditions commonly diagnosed by doctors as bursitis, tendonitis, whiplash or tennis elbow.
"In the beginning, when a patient would shed an ache or pain they had for one year or 10 years, it seemed like a miracle," Reddling said. "The more I work with the body, the more natural it seems."
Rolfers believe the body becomes unbalanced through accidents or through habits of walking, sitting or sleeping that may have been caused by the unbalance occurs because applied force can remold the fascia.
HE SAID Rolters believe the technique not only promotes physical well-being, but also promotes balanced emotional growth as well.
"But I still think it can be beneficial, and I still consider going back," she said.
Susan Hogle Stahl, an occupational therapist in Kansas City, Kan., said she decided to be Rofled to make some personal changes.
She quit after seven sessions. She said she already had received many of the benefits she wanted from Rolf. "I remember they quoted a bit of pain during her sessions."
Redding acknowledged that many people associated Rolfing with pain, and he acknowledged that some of his experienced pain during the sessions.
"MOST PEOPLE realize that for the most part, the Rolfer has not created the pain. It has been there all along," he said.
Redding said that before he rolled a client, he made certain they were prepared for pain during the session.
"I tell them it is best to relax as much as they can," he said.
Reaction to Rolfing varies, Redding said, but most people are surprised that it does not hurt as much as they had expected.
Reason for fatal house fire still unknown
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
The state fire marshal and other area firefighting officials are still investigating the cause of a house fire that killed a former KU employee and two of his colleagues on night, a Jefferson County Sheriff's Department official said last night.
Shirley Larison, 40, a former custodian at Strong Hall, Donald Larison Jr., 15, and Gina Larison, 13, died in the fire at their rural home six weeks ago. The Fire Department officials removed the bodies from the house four hours after
the first trucks arrived at the house at 1 a.m. Sunday.
DONALD LARISON, 45, and Glenda Larison, 16, were released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday morning, a hospital official said.
Glenda Larison suffered from a fractured arm and smoke inhalation. Donald Larison also suffered from smoke inhalation, the official said.
Funeral services for Mrs. Larison and the two children will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the First United Methodist Church in Osakalao.
Wilford Ousdahl, owner of the house,
said Mrs. Larson had worked about a
year before she was born.
of housekeeping, said Mrs. Larison resigned from her job two weeks ago because of her health.
Richard C. Bivens, associate director
"I was shocked to hear she died so violently, so miserably," Bivens said.
FIREFIGHTERS FROM Lawrence, McLouth, Oksaloake, Grant and Sarcoxie responded to the alarm. In all, 12 fire trucks responded
The Jefferson and Douglas county sheriff's departments, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Jefferson and Hamilton ambulance services were also there.
The amount of damage to the house has not been determined, but the amount of damage to the roof is unknown.
official said the house was destroyed by the fire.
The official said 75 firefighters helped to extinguish the fire.
The two survivors crawled onto the roof from a second-story window and jumped to the ground, the official said. "The others were probably overcome by shock."
THE OCCUPANTS of the home were in a room on the second floor in the southwest corner of the house during the fire. The sheriff's department official said the survivors told them where the others were in the house.
Oudahl said Glenda Larison called him from the barna after she escaped from the house.
An organizer said the cigarette was made in protest against police who last week confiscated a standard-sized marijuana dispensary and smoking it on the steps of City Hall.
THE MEMBERS of a pro-legalization movement called Free Stuff first offered their unwieldy joint to police.
When it was refused, they moved to City Hall, where officials thwarted their attempts to give it to the mayor.
Pot smokers try to offer longest joint as present
The group finally left it on a gifts table at the City Hall marriage office, asking an official to give it to the next couple to emerge.
"A happy hash smoker causes no one any trouble so we'll leave now," a pull.
"It it took 350 cigarette papers, 10 packets of tobacco and a pound of marjuana and the whole thing was rolled on a long table with a wire spiral built in to make it manageable," said Hans de Preter, a local journalist who was among the 200 spectators on Groningen's Market Square.
Police took away the cigarette before anyone emerged from the marriage office, de Preter said.
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"IT WAS ALL done in fun and since it was a demonstration of sorts we thought it best not to interfere," a police official said. "We could not be sure that it was marijuana they were putting into it anyway."
G R O N I N G E N . T he Netherlands--Sixty confirmed marijuna smokers, watched by smiling police, yesterday rolled what was probably the world's longest marijuna cigarette and tried to give it away as a wedding present -- all 15 feet 10 inches of it.
According to the organizer, the joint was made from rare home-grown chickens.
Although marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, police turn a blind eye to cigarettes containing up to 30 grams of the drug, assuming it is for personal use.
AND THE CITY council in Enschede two weeks ago authorized the town's youth center to sell government-tested toys to youngsters the youngsters would get a safe product.
Thief takes restaurant deposit
Lawrence police were still searching yesterday for an armed robber who stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a 20-year-old Lawrence woman yesterday morning in the parking lot of a Lawrence bank.
The robber was armed with a small brown handgun and was wearing a ski mask and an army jacket, police said. He entered the building away from the bank on 23rd Street.
THE ROBBERY occurred about 10 a.m. yesterday in the parking lot of the South First National Bank, 23rd Street and Ridge Court. The woman was about to enter the bank when the robber demanded that she give him money.
The woman, an employee of Perkins Cake and Steak, 171. 23rd St., was going to make a deposit for the restaurant, police said.
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