Doh!!! The confusion here is all mine. Rats! I forgot that not everyone on
this forum gets the SI Journal (formerly Rolflines). No need to go searching,
I'll sum up here. Dr. Rolf used to work behind ankles (and elsewhere) with her
fingernails in ways that looked to the uninitiated like scratching. If you did
not know what she was doing and tried to imitate her, pretty much you were just
scratching. But, she said, she was sorting out tendons, ligaments and layers.
She called it "worrying" the tissues. I get the idea but I'm intrigued with the
term she used: "worrying". Now, to my question: Why the heck did she call it
that? Sorry for the confusion and I hope I properly represented this.
Ritchie Mintz
Austin