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July 10, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I did not expect that I at the age of 92 years I would still teach and write about Orthopedic Medicine and Manipulative Therapy. I have seen much, and thought much, and still have much to say about the treatment of arthro-neuro-muscular conditions with manual techniques. However, I … [read more]

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New book edition: Manual Mobilization of the Joints, Volume 2: Spine, 7th Edition

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Freddy Kaltenborn

The 7th edition of my book, “Manual Mobilization of the Joints, Volume 2, Spine” has just gone to press in the USA. There are a few changes in the book that may be of interest to teachers and practitioners of the Kaltenborn-Evjenth Concept. Principles I have continued my … [read more]

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Kaltenborn-Evjenth OMT Teacher’s Organization

December 22, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

An international organization for teachers of the Kaltenborn-Evjenth OMT concept was established in 2014 as a non-profit organization in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. The goals of Kaltenborn-Evjenth OMT are to enhance communication, collaboration and comradeship between all K-E instructors, to update and standardize teaching materials and activities of those using … [read more]

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Direct patient access for physical therapists in Norway

September 10, 2015October 16, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I have long argued that Norwegian physical therapists with advanced post-professional training in Orthopedic Manipulative Therapy, are qualified to practice independently and to serve as the first point of patient entry into the health care system. However, current graduates of Norway’s physical therapy educational programs who have not … [read more]

Education, Practice

Reproducibility of specific manual mobility tests in the spine

September 10, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn
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The theory behind Orthopedic Manipulative Therapy for the spine, is that patients with more or less diminished mobility between two individual vertebrae, with pain that can be provoked upon movement at the vertebral segment, can with specific manual treatment, become symptom‐free or have their condition improved and normal … [read more]

Research

Recommendation to abandon rotatory joint techniques in manipulative therapy

July 7, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I have not used a rotatory technique in my practice nor taught a rotatory manipulation in over 15 years. By 1979, I no longer taught rotatory techniques for the extremity joints, and in 1991 I stopped teaching rotatory techniques in the spine. I came to these decisions based … [read more]

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Limitations of evidence-based treatment and research in manipulative therapy

July 7, 2015September 11, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

In an ideal world treatment decisions would be based on the evidence revealed by clinical trials. However, many variables affect accurate determinations of cause and effect in arthro-neuro-muscular dis­orders. The validity of clinical trials in the manual therapies is confounded by many factors. Valid measurement tools for manual … [read more]

Practice, Research

Kaltenborn-Evjenth OMT meeting announced, Zaragoza, Spain, September 11 – 13, 2015

November 21, 2014August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

Olaf Evjenth and I, both in our 90’s, announced our retirement from teaching at an international Kaltenborn-Evjenth (K-E) teacher’s meeting in Gran Canary Island, Spain on January 10, 2014. To ensure the future quality of OMT education associated with our names, we requested that the most recent developments … [read more]

Education

Joint manipulation in physical therapy schools

November 2, 2014August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

It is critically important that joint manipulation be taught in physical therapy schools. Some physical therapy schools omit manipulative training, and this fact is taken by some courts of law as justification to prevent physical therapists from delivering manipulative treatment. Over the past century there have been repeated … [read more]

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OMT schools of thought: What’s in a name?

October 27, 2014August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

Perhaps the time has come for OMT practitioners to cease naming treatments according to a school of thought. The principles of treatment are far more important than the name of the practitioner who first developed the technique. It is not important that a technique, for example, was originally … [read more]

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