Where Did FMM originate

FMM, as a systematic and logical method, evolved in the hands of Andy Thomas who has been presented with thousands of patients suffering pain and disability. The average patient’s lament has been “I've been everywhere and seen all sorts of people and you are my last hope!” . This has spawned the term BETE--the "been everywhere and tried everything"  type of person! The lament was aimed, of course, at all the practitioners that these patients have seen before and it is as a result of this discontent with the current range of treatment modalities, that FMM has evolved. The discontent has been expressed towards physiotherapists, consultants, orthopaedic specialists, osteopaths and chiropractors and it has been possible to deduce from the discontent  that there is a  common theme running through all treatment regimes:

--proper examination seldom occurred
--practitioners invariably applied treatment without extensive investigation
--treatment was usually applied to the area where pain was felt
--practitioners rarely supplied rational and logical explanations for what was being done
--patients were often advised against such self-help methods as yoga
--patients were often given printed sheets of exercises to perform ,many of which were useless and inappropriate for the problem. Often the patient had given up the exercise because it did not seem to work! Have a look at the case histories to see just how many failures there are and the extent of blindness in other modalities!

Fmm creates a genuine partnership between therapist and patient--we believe that this is VITAL .

The successful combination of yoga , suitably adapted for each individual--and accurate, specific treatment methods evolved over many years has produced the system that we now call FULL MOVEMENT METHOD. On some occasions and some patients it was not the application of the manual treatment which had the most effect but the patients commencement of yoga--hence we learned that the patient always has a global problem as well as a local problem and this may well explain why so much therapy fails--because the patient has only treatment and receives no adequate and accurate instructions as to help themselves.

The FM methods have been successfully applied to more than 6,000 patients over a total of around 35 years and have been seen to work for around 95% of people. Many more have been added by those now successfully operating as trained fmm therapists--their tales have strong common ground.

 The use of the word method as opposed to the word therapy was chosen because it is much more a way of seeing people, a way of being and a mind-set about humanity --it is a method of resolving those musculoskeletal deficiences so poorly dealt with currently so it is  not just a therapy. Indeed the application of the manual  therapy, for some,  is a small part of the whole process.