Physical Rehabilitation: the Importance of
Knowing HOW
The medical world (with physiotherapy as one of its most
important aspects) continues to be dominated by a largely
mechanistic and fragmentary self-world view  (Physicist David
Bohm). The consequences are deplorable for both physiotherapists
and patients: ...
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Frozen Shoulder
“They tell you what to do... but not HOW!”
With this cry of despair Jenny sunk onto the chair in my
practice. On her doctor’s recommendation she had
just seen a physiotherapist for help with a frozen right
shoulder, a real handicap for a right-handed person.
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Using to whole body to prevent physical
damage (a homeopath's view)
by Mabel Smith
“Using my whole body prevents me from repeating the physical
damage I have done to myself in the past”
Feldenkrais is different to conventional forms of treatment
like physiotherapy...
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Rehabilitation after a Spinal Operation
“What my Body had been Waiting for”
from an article by Penny Brohn (1943-1999), one of the three
co-founders of the BRISTOL CANCER HELP CENTRE. The article
was written at the end of 1993 and appeared in the Feldenkrais
Journal U.K.
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Neuro-rehabilitation:
top priority - neutralizing a negative self-image
The Feldenkrais Method can also be extremely helpful to
people suffering from neuro-muscular impairment after a
stroke or motor accident. A brief case history...
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Helping children with cerebral palsy
From birth most children with neurological conditions have
a heartbreakingly difficult time. They are constantly frustrated
in their attempts to do what they want; and when they reach
school age things get even more disheartening since they...
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Richard's Transformation: Becoming Himself
"I can now sometimes see in my son the little boy he might have been if
he hadn't
been born paraplegic"
This is what Richard's mother told me just before he turned seven. When she had
brought him into my practice for the first time he had been four and a half years
old. At that time Richard's...
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Helping people with asthma not to panic
Discovering Effective Ways of Easing Asthma and other Breathing
Problems
As though I had been frozen solid for years and was now
melting
In 1999 Carol, an asthma sufferer, wrote the following brief
account of her experience with the Feldenkrais Method.
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Learning Disability: Growing in Confidence
and Becoming a Happier Person
Anna started having Feldenkrais lessons soon after she had
badly twisted her knee during a fall on stage. Despite increasing
discomfort, the thirty-five year old keen amateur performer
had insisted on taking part in the remaining two presentations
of a prestigious local pantomime.
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I...Transformed My Life
In 1995, nearly four months after complex spinal surgery, Susan, an interior
designer with a long history of crippling backpain, came to me for her first
Functional Integration lesson. She arrived at my door in the wheel chair she
was then using to get around town. The first session resulted in a kind of miracle.
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