The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health sponsored a conference on manual therapies research at the University of Virginia’s Fairfax campus August 6-7, 2026. Videos of the conference talks, each by a leading scientist in the field, accompanied by...
Blog posts for category: Research
Scientific research on the health effects and therapeutic mechanisms of Structural Integration.
Foundation Funded Research
Hi, I am Katja Bartsch, a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich and a board-certified Structural Integration practitioner. My postdoctoral research measured the effects of Structural Integration on posture, pain, range-of-motion and soft...
Latest Research Publication
Dr. Robert Schleip is interviewed by Eric Jacobson about his team’s recent analysis of data from Rolfer and physical therapist Helen James on the biomechanical benefits of Structural Integration, and her groundbreaking career.Helen James recorded Rolfing Structural...
Past Funded Research
Structural Integration for Chronic Low Back Pain was a groundbreaking clinical study conducted by Eric Jacobson, Ph.D., a research scientist at Harvard Medical School. It was funded by a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a...



