Forms
of Therapy
The
Feldenkrais Method® uses two approaches in working with patients:
Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons
and Functional Integration (FI). more…
Indications
for Referral
The
Feldenkrais Method is indicated to restore
functions lost through accident or degenerative
diseases, as well as to improve function
in people who want to enhance high-level
skills. more…
Origins and History
In
our society, we do, by the promise of
great reward or intense punishment, so
distort the even development of the system,
that many acts become excluded or restricted.
The result is that we have to provide
special conditions for furthering adult maturation of many arrested
functions. The majority of people need to re-form patterns of
motions and attitudes that should never have been excluded or
neglected. more…
Research Base
The
first research study involving Feldenkrais
Method® (FM) was
published in 1977 with several more appearing
in the next decade. Since 1988 there
has been an increasing amount of research
done and recently this has been increasing
each year. Because FM has such a wide range of effects, a wide
range of outcomes has been looked at and reported. more…
Theory for
Mechanisms of Action
Unlike
other animals, which are preprogrammed
to survive, human children must learn
to move. Although a cat is born with
the knowledge of how to move gracefully,
it takes years for humans to learn movement
well enough to function independently
in the world. The necessity and ability to learn individual patterns
of movement leads to a variety in human movement and posture
unknown in other species and can be considered the most distinguishing
feature of mankind. more…
