Posture greatly affects your health and well being throughout your lifetime. From birth, the day-to-day pressures of life and gravity push your body out of alignment. Old habits, injuries and stresses become "fixed" in your body's muscular structure. When one part of the body is out of balance or misaligned, the rest of the body attempts to compensate. Ultimately, this weakens the entire structure.

Structural Integration therapy balances and aligns the body along a natural vertical axis by gradually stretching, lengthening and repositioning the fascia, restoring its normal length and flexibility. The work is more regional, yet ongoing and progressive following fascia patterns.

Ultimately, structural integration therapy allows your body to create new patterns of movement – long lasting, if not permanent, changes. At the St. Louis Institute for Rehabilitative & Sports Massage your therapist seeks to achieve an inner structural balance of the legs, pelvis, back, neck and cranium. You are asked to actively participate in each session to create neurosomatic awareness – an increased awareness of the state and health of different parts of your body. This can result in improved breathing capacity, a balanced stance, and an increased overall range of motion.