The dictionary!! What a novel idea! Ok, given IPR's exactness in her use of
language, this makes perfect sense and pretty well answers my question.
Thanks to everyone.
Ritchie


--- In Structural_Integration@yahoogroups.com, Geoff <samekh@...> wrote:
>
> My dictionary has this as part of the definition for "worrying":
>
> [ intrans. ] ( worry at) pull at or fiddle with repeatedly : he began
> to worry at the knot in the cord.
>
> That could have something to do with it. :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, ritchguy250<ritchguy250@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
>