The Mézières method

Edited by Doctor Ilio Iannone

Who can benefit from a Mézières treatment?

All people who are looking for a personalized treatment, adapted to their case. It is not a general symptom, but the "personal case" and unique of each patient is treated. It is also possible to treat young people of 7/8 years if they have enough attention. With patients of the 3rd and 4th age (even with more of 80 years) exceptional results are obtained as regards rheumatic pain, neuralgia, back pain, joint stiffness, circulatory disorders, arthrosis, etc. Finally, all those who have already tried many therapies without having positive effects and who they have almost entirely lost hope of being relieved of their pains. These people are often the best ambassadors of the Mézières method.

We do not want to let people believe that the "Mézières" therapy is the universal panacea (it has its limitations and its contraindications), but we only want to sensitize the public to a "common sense" approach. If sometimes punctual and local treatments are necessary or sufficient, generalizing them appears to be of a "deceptive or harmful long-term effectiveness. In a word, cutting people" into slices "is not always desirable. It is necessary to know that it is not enough to put one thickness under one foot (like a common wardrobe) to solve a static problem. It is necessary to know that it is not enough to prescribe a corset (which however in rare cases is necessary) to solve a lumbar problem, or better still to advise a person suffering from Low back pain to change jobs This is not a neck pain, but a person suffering from the neck region This evidence, too often forgotten, is an additional factor in the success of a treatment.
Kinesiotherapy has seen, in recent years, the quality and level of his studies significantly improved. Paradoxically, the current trend of the profession seems to be moving towards specializations with a high technical content with the use of sophisticated equipment. In spite of this, the wide range of acquired knowledge may allow the alternative choice of "global" therapies.

Some examples

sir X
30 years
Pain in the left hip for a year with a diagnosis of peri-arthritis of the hip not resolved with classic rheumatological treatment. After a thorough general examination of the patient, we realize that the left ankle presents a limitation of amplitude (not painful) in the external rotation: consequence of a bad sprain contracted several years earlier and apparently healed. In some sessions the normalization of the ankle frees the soft tissues of the hip, which could no longer stand to compensate by itself for the lack of mobility of the ankle, leading to a cessation of pain.

Mrs. A
very busy business woman 45 years old
• cervical pain for 10 years with helmet headaches, consequences of a car accident (left femur fracture with considerable shortening, ablation of the spleen, perforation of the pleura),
• low back pain for 5 years with increasingly frequent acute blocks,
• inability to prolong the sitting and standing positions,
• very tense muscles due to a too intense life and almost permanent stress,
• significant lumbar arch.
After having removed the insoles that had not helped at all (the insoles two times out of three are useless and sometimes harmful), a work of general relaxation and distension of the retracted muscles allows the body to regain a good posture of adaptation and so much better. distribute the forces necessary for its harmonious functioning.

Mrs. B
51 years old
Suffering from headaches from the age of 30 (at least once a week), suffering from the feet from the age of 28, after radiotherapy on warts, does not leave the house except to go shopping, wears orthotics that they do not give her relief and that they are part of herself. The relationship is evident only because the dossier is presented in this way, but this patient was examined alternately by head specialists and foot specialists who "broke her head" and "broke ... her feet". After persuading her to abandon her insoles, which did not give her relief, and after a global work of three months consisting among other things in relaxing and rebalancing the supports on the ground, without specifically insisting on the cervical spine, the poor feet found themselves freed. from their tensions transmitted to the cervicals, thus leading to a cessation of headaches.

Complementarity with other therapies

Françoise Mézières did not have too harsh words towards those who practice what she called the "little train", associating the "wagon" of the Mézières method with other techniques. If it is evident that the complementarity of the Mézières method is incompatible with therapies whose principles are the opposite, nothing is opposed to some co-therapies, always beneficial for the patient: homeopathy and acupuncture, manual therapy, podiatry, posturology, kinesiology, skin reflexotherapy, but also relaxation, sophrology, psychotherapy. .

Bibliography

1 Postural treatment Mézières, a solution to the global approach of posture- JackyRenauld, Mézièriste, Ostéopathe.
2 The "Mézières" method - Jacky Renauld, Mézièriste, Ostéopathe - article published in the journal of the "Center homéopathique de France".
3 The posture - Dario Vitale, E.O.P. From Rome.
4 The Mézières Method - www.mezieres.net
5 Mézières Method - Cittone JM, Encycl Méd Chir (Elsevier, Paris), Rehabilitation Medicine, 26-085-A-10, 1999, 7 p.