Feldenkrais and TMJ: The Mayo Clinic Gets It Wrong.
About 30 minutes ago, I read a statement on the Mayo Clinic website that noted: “Severe TMJ disorders may need to be treated with dental or surgical interventions.” (From: Mayo Clinic) That’s a simple statement that few would take issue with. And it seems to meet the unconscious expectations that many of us have, such [...]
Carl Ginsburg: As Incoherent As He Wants To Be
Several months ago, I came across an article posted by Carl Ginsburg on Feldscinet.org. It was an article optimistically entitled, “Epistemology For The Feldenkrais Method.” I began reading the article and laughed. It sounded like it came from some pretentious postmodern philosophical treatise or a random sentence generator that can create plausible yet meaningless sentences [...]
The Satanic Verses of Frank Wildman
Please Note: This blog post is certified safe for both Guild and Non-Guild Members. I spent a considerable amount of time last month scanning documents and books and such into my computer, getting ready for my cross-border move. In the process, I came across an article that Frank Wildman published in the Physical Therapy Forum [...]
Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise…
[and this] theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. – Paul Feyarabend, Against Method (Fourth Edition), page 5. “The idea that science can, and should, be run according to fixed and universal rules, is both unrealistic and pernicious. It is unrealistic, for it takes too simple a [...]
Feldenkrais Research
I just received an anonymous email from – I presume – a member of the public, asking me: Where might one find and review the “30+ outcome studies that have been conducted on The Feldenkrais Method.” cited in your critique of Dr. Gorski? I no longer have a complete list of Feldenkrais Research, as my [...]
