Experiences of a physiotherapist

Last week I attended the second seminar of the Fascia Therapy course in Paris. The seminar was led by Christian Courraud and Nadine Quéré, both pioneers to the method. Nadine told us she already engaged herself in Fascia Therapy as from its split-off from osteopathy. I think she may have attended the first Fascia Therapy course in the early eighties.

It’s now the third year in a row that I’m leading the first two seminars of the Fascia course in Belgium. I had the need to observe how Christian Courraud, head of theFascia Therapy – Somatology school in France, handles the introduction of Fascia Therapy to physical therapists. Although I frequently take refresher courses – working together with Danis Bois at the university in Portugal, attending seminars for teachers and post-graduate seminars – and try to keep up the evolution of the method, the issue and the starting point of this ‘seminar for beginners’ are different. It is not about exploring the concepts of the method in depth or measuring the effects of Fascia Therapy MDB (Method-Danis Bois); It’s about teaching physical therapists how to work with those concepts.

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Each year, the board of the professional association of the Critical Education Coaching, the Hendrickx-method organizes a study day for its members. In the even years we have an ‘internal’ meeting where Prof. Hendrickx talks about a specific subject. The last topics were: ‘The writing hand: mirror of personality’ (2004) and ‘Critical analysis and interpretation of the drawing assignments that are used in problem analysis (child – tree – house)’ (2006). In the odd years we try to set up a meeting between a superior expert within our discipline and Prof. Hendrickx and our method.

In 2005 we invited Prof. Dr. Bouwdewijn Van Houdenhove. The theme was ‘stress and Western diseases’. Last year Prof. Dr. Marina Danckaerts came to talk about ‘ADHD, a child and its environment’. Prof. Danckaerts is the expert in the ADHD field. She works as a researcher and professor at KULeuven, a university in Belgium.

The first encounter between both professors took place a year earlier at a symposium in Western Flanders (North-West part of Belgium). The director of the rehabilitation centre had organized a study day on the relevance of administering Rilatine. Prof. Hendrickx and Prof. Danckaerts were type-casted being ‘the big supporter resp. opponent’ of Rilatine. In this caricature Prof. Danckaerts was pointed out to be the person who would prescribe Rilatine at any time, and Prof. Hendrickx would be the one who would fight this and discourage everyone from taking Rilatine. (Read the article)

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This morning we finalised the new brochure of Fasciatherapy. It will go to the printer’s tomorrow. In ten days from now, at the summer seminar, the brochure will be offered for the first time.

Since last message a lot has been modified. Under the management of Wim we performed a pre-test, using the ‘plus-minus’ method, on thirty patients, not-patients, therapists and doctors. They were asked to go through the brochure thoroughly and, in an interview, to point out the its strengths and weaknesses. All info has been gathered, and the (greatest) common dividers and all feasible proposals have been noted and processed. After text revision and modification from our side the brochure has been corrected by a professional copywriter as well. (Read the article)

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