Tom Richards argues that tensegrity-based bio-informatics lies at the heart of human proprioception. What if I were to tell you that your intelligence lies in much more than the thing between your ears? What if Iwere to tell you that there is intelligence in your muscles, fascia, and even your skin? These in fact are very important facets of a giant network of information gatherers that allow you to stand and move. You see posture is not a static “thing” that you just have. It is actually a dynamic state that is at every moment in a making micro-adjustments with the environment that it is working within. So at every moment 9.8 m/sec is pulling down on each segment of your body. In order to overcome this powerful ever-present force on us we must have a well-tuned highly intelligent network of information gatherers. When there is pain or loss of balance there is often confusion between the proprioceptive senses (the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body) of the nervous system and the corresponding area of the body. A recent study showed a high correlation between scoliosis and diminished proprioception.
He goes on to explain tensegrity, and concludes by suggesting Structural Integration (or Rolfing) is the cure.
As much as tensegrity protects us it can also become disturbed by trauma and cause problems in the structural balance as well as our proprioception (awareness of spatial position and movement of the body). Tensegrity feeds back into the information gathering system. If don’t have the proper tensegrity to support our bodies we don’t have good proprioception. We begin to think that back is forward and crooked is straight. I have had many clients tell me that they feel self conscious about their rear end sticking out behind them when it is plainly tucked under them and actually causing pain in the back. It is not their brain that misinformed them. It is the information gatherers that feed into the brain. Translation: you may end up with a body that is tired, weak, and literally doesn’t know where its parts are. That person is residing in a body that is not enjoyable to be in.Hands-on work (Structural Integration) is really the process of going only where the work needs to be done on the tissues and treating them with specificity. As someone who has had a Yoga practice for many years now I will contend that it is the best exercise you can do for yourself. That said you can almost never stretch your way out of the problem. Lifting weights at a gym usually won’t help either. If you think that your body doesn’t have the proper tensegrity that I am talking about then Rolfing may be the answer.
I look forward to more detailed work linking proprioception signalling to tensegrity concepts, at all levels: cellular, organ and body.
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