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About Philip Clampitt
Philip Clampitt — Certified Rolfing® Structural Integration Practitioner
Philip Clampitt has been practicing Rolfing® Structural Integration since 2011, with a professional background that combines Rolfing, movement education, somatic awareness, and extensive clinical experience working alongside sports-medicine and other healthcare professionals.
His interest in Rolfing began long before he became a practitioner.
As a teenager and into his twenties, Philip experienced persistent upper-back discomfort. After completing the Rolfing® Ten-Series, he experienced a significant change in his posture and movement, and his longstanding back discomfort resolved.
That personal experience sparked a deeper interest in understanding how the body's structure, movement patterns, and connective tissues influence one another.
He eventually pursued professional training in Rolfing® Structural Integration and completed the training in 2011.
From Personal Experience to Clinical Practice
Immediately after completing his Rolfing training, Philip moved to Chicago to gain additional clinical experience working within a sports-medicine environment at Chicago Chiropractic & Sports Injury Centers.
The owner, Dr. Clendenin, who served as the director & co-founder of the Major League Baseball Chiropractic Society
Dr. Clendenin, served as the director and co-founder of the Major League Baseball Chiropractic Society and a consultant to numerous Major League Baseball organizations. He brought Philip into his sports-medicine clinics to incorporate Philip's approach to Rolfing® Structural Integration into the care environment.
This experience gave Philip the opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary team and to observe how different healthcare professionals approach the human body from different perspectives.
During this period, he worked alongside:
- Medical doctors
- Chiropractors
- Naturopathic practitioners
- Physical therapists
- Acupuncturists
- Podiatrists
- Massage therapists
Working within this environment helped Philip develop a broader understanding of how structural organization, movement, injury, physical activity, and recovery can interact.
Personal Experience With Auto Injuries
Philip also has personal experience with the recovery process following a serious automobile injury in 2018.
Experiencing an automobile injury himself gave him a direct understanding of the physical and personal challenges that can accompany an accident and the process of recovery afterward.
Following his own injury, Philip spent additional time working under professional supervision and alongside physicians and other specialists experienced in automobile injuries and accident-related care. This provided him with further clinical experience working with people recovering from different types of injuries associated with auto accidents.
This combination of personal experience and professional exposure gave Philip a broader understanding of the ways that injury can affect the body over time, including changes in movement, posture, tension, compensation, and body awareness.
It also gave him greater appreciation for the experiences of people recovering from significant physical trauma, including those who may experience heightened stress, anxiety, or trauma-related responses following an accident.
More Than a Decade of Clinical Experience
Philip has more than 10 year of clinical experience working directly with clients in a sports-medicine setting, including experience with more than 30 different conditions and presentations under the supervision and collaboration of sports-medicine professionals.
His experience has ranged from the everyday postural and movement challenges experienced by people who spend much of their day sitting or working at a desk to the physical demands faced by highly trained athletes and people recovering from injuries.
Over the years, he has worked with athletes involved in a wide range of activities, including:
- Marathon and distance running
- Powerlifting
- Yoga
- Martial arts
- Dance
- CrossFit and functional fitness
- Other competitive and recreational sports
He has also gained experience working with people recovering from automobile accidents and other injuries, giving him exposure to a broad range of physical presentations and recovery experiences.
Working with athletes and injured clients has given Philip particular appreciation for the relationship between structure, movement, performance, recovery, and repetitive physical demands.
At the same time, his practice is not limited to athletes or people recovering from injuries.
The same principles of structural organization and movement apply to people whose physical demands come from sitting at a desk, standing for long periods, repetitive work, everyday activities, or simply the accumulated effects of years of habitual movement.
A Whole-Body Approach
Philip's approach to Rolfing® Structural Integration is based on looking beyond the location of a person's discomfort and considering the larger relationships within the body.
Rather than treating the body as a collection of separate parts, he considers how the feet, legs, pelvis, spine, rib cage, shoulders, head, and other regions relate to one another through the body's connective-tissue network and movement patterns.
This whole-body perspective is central to Rolfing® Structural Integration.
The goal is not simply to make one area feel different for an hour. The work is intended to help the client develop greater awareness of how the body is organized, how it moves, and how its different parts support one another within gravity.
Continuing to Learn
Philip's interest in health, movement, and human structure has continued throughout his professional career. His education and experience in additional bodywork, movement, and somatic approaches continue to inform his practice while Rolfing® Structural Integration remains the foundation of his work.
Philip is currently in private practice, where he works directly with individuals seeking to better understand and improve their posture, movement, and overall structural organization.
After more than a 15 years in practice total, Philip continues to be interested in one of the central questions that first drew him to Rolfing:
How can changing the way the body is organized change the way a person moves, feels, and experiences their body?
That question continues to guide his work with each individual client.
