Alan is a well credentialed, well prepared, enthusiastic and generous teacher. He has a real gift to introduce in bridging a lesser known — yet highly effective–alternative therapeutic device into mainstream therapy practice. This is not your usual modality. This is not a modality course. It is a chance to modulate a reconciliation of what’s missing between modalities and activities, and to have your self and your patients become more effective in what ever they may do.
How wonderful to more effectively meet the patient’s pain relief needs in the moment of “right here and right now” and to afford to them ‘on the spot relief’ where their attention has been ever so pre-occupied, ….so that you can now move on to the actual business of skill development and training without the impedance of pain focus in the foreground.
I treated a state worker with a year-long PIP whiplash claim that had become quite kinesiophobic and functionally disabled by an extremely low pain threshold such that even the gentlest of hands-on manual maneuvers were encountered by bracing and muscle guarding from any direction or position.
A Feldenkrais Functional Integration session that could usually accomplish an effective anticipated result in 30 minutes was taking 1.5 hours. Sessions ran late and incomplete……..However, the sense of relief derived from a 1st–time ScenarPT application to her upper back changed the outlook and availability of this individual for the better. No longer was her skin so adherent to her upper back such that she could not easily move nor tolerate even the lightest of touch. She became free-er to engage in attending to shifts in her body awareness, and we made great strides in moving her forward.
Harry Potter had his wand. Every therapist should have their ScenarPT.