About Angela Ledington-Fischer Physical Therapist/Certified Rolfer
Angela Ledington Fischer is a Licensed Physical Therapist who chose to specialize in this form of physical therapy 32 years ago. She moved to Kauai from Seattle in April 1998 and is now working from her Wailua office to share this special work with people of the island. She trained as a physical therapist at New York University, supervised the Physical Therapy department at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills and later attended the Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1980. She has worked with infants, children and adults. She has extensive experience working with those who suffer from acute and chronic pain with excellent results. She specializes in bringing relief to patients suffering from low back pain, neck pain, and various other pain syndromes. She has also worked with patients who have fibromyalgia and has helped many children who have or are developing scoliosis and other postural related problems. During her days in Beverly Hills her work has assisted such noteworthy clients as Neil Diamond, Sting and Burt Lancaster.
Her evolution as a Rolfer and Physical Therapist includes special training in spinal mechanics as related to mobilization and the myofascial system, cranial-sacral therapy, neuromuscular unwinding and Swiss Ball therapy for low back rehabilitation as well as normal functional work-outs. She also recently studied visceral manipulation which is a very subtle but powerful way of releasing restrictions in the viscera that may possibly be affecting structural patterns. .Angela also holds a degree in Psychology. She has a special interest in dream therapy and has been studying Jungian dream analysis for the last 20 years.
Angela is an exercise and bicycling enthusiast who completed the 550 mile California AIDS Ride in 1994 and 1995. She paddled with the Kaiola Canoe Club Steering her crew to the #1 in the state championships in Oahu in 2001 and believes in teaching people how to exercise and perform with efficiency and ease in the body. Her intention is to help people learn to HEAR their body’s voice and live with more ease and comfort.
Consultations are complimentary, many insurance plans are accepted.
Angela Ledington-Fischer
808.635.1657
Ida P. Rolf
Creator of Rolfing Method of Structural Integration
IDA P. ROLF
May 19,1896 - March 19, 1979
Ida P. Rolf, a native New Yorker, graduated from Barnard College in 1916; and in 1920 she earned a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. For the next twelve years Ida Rolf worked at the Rockefeller Institute, first in the Department of Chemotherapy and later in the Department of Organic Chemistry. Eventually, she rose to the rank of Associate, no small achievement for a young woman in those days.
In 1927, she took a leave of absence from her work to study mathematics and atomic physics at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich. During this time, she also studied homeopathic medicine in Geneva.
Returning from Europe, she spent the decade of the 1930’s seeking answers to personal and family health problems. Medical treatment available at that time seemed inadequate to her; this led to her exploration of osteopathy, chiropractic medicine, yoga, the Alexander technique and Korzybski’s work on states of consciousness.
By the 1940’s, she was working in a Manhattan apartment where her schedule was filled with people seeking help. She was committed to the scientific point of view, and yet many breakthroughs came intuitively through the work she did with chronically disabled persons unable to find help elsewhere. This was the work eventually to be known as Structural Integration. For the next thirty years, Ida Rolf devoted herself to developing her technique and training programs.
During the 1950’s, her reputation spread to England where she spent summers as a guest of John Bennett, a prominent mystic and student of Gurdjieff. In the mid-1960's Dr. Rolf began training practitioners and instructors in Structural Integration at the Esalen Institute in California.
Shortly before her death in 1979, she published Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being (Inner Traditions Intl Ltd; November 1990 ISBN: 0892813350) the primary text documenting her investigation and intervention with the human structure.
