Dorn Method Filipino

Greetings to everyone,

Malou Sun - DORN therapist/trainer

Thank you for taking time to read our website.

Most of the information in this website is my personal sharing in my experiences in practicing Dorn Method therapy the past five years. This is Not intended as a medical advice,  nor to diagnose or to replace appropriate medical therapy to any spinal problems.If you have been suffering from chronic back pain the past several years, I encourage you to seek medical help first and then request for medical clearance before coming to my therapy center to avail this kind of spinal therapy. I have included several photos of my clients who willingly allowed me to share with you the history of their condition.

However for purposes of preserving their privacy, exposing their identity or copying – downloading their photos is restricted.

There are illustrated Self Help Exercises in the following pages. Please consult your attending physician before doing it as I will not be liable to any adverse effect it may have to your condition.

Although I have collections of affirmative testimonials from my clients who had benefited from this therapy, I do not claim that this is an “all cure” method. The series of sessions that I applied to them are combination of complementary  healing modalities that I studied like acupuncture, acupressure, therapeutic massage (6 kinds) and Reiki healing.

I believe that our body has its own capacity to heal itself. Thus, I recommend healing our dis-eases or dis-comforts in the most natural way- if still applicable. I hope that we take time to listen to our body signal even on simple discomfort that we experience. As the saying goes “prevention is better than cure”.

To those who might be interested to learn this craft,  please take time to reflect on the following questions: do you have an interest in natural healing? do you enjoy spending time caring for the sick? will you be available to render health service to the community? do you get encouragement from your friends and relatives to improve your skills in natural healing? are you able to safeguard your own health and well-being by healthy living like eating the right food, doing self help exercise and spending time for meditation?

Bone alignment and massage therapy is a physically demanding activity. It is a great career if you get proper training. You can be a full- time DORN therapist making some pretty good financial reward or just a part-time therapist rendering service to a few satisfied client. If  this is your path, come and join me in sharing this healing modality.

Blessings of excellent health, wealth and happiness!

Malou Sun

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Taken at 1st Dorn therapy center in Parañaque City.

Dieter Dorn

DORN Method Therapy

All started with Dieter Dorn (Photo on right side)

Courtesy of:  Mr. Thomas Zudrell my teacher in DORN therapy.

Born in August 1938 in South Germany, he is a Sawmill owner working for the farmers in the area. About 30 years ago while lifting a heavy log he suffered on a Lumbago (sciatic pain).
He was relieved of that pain by an old healer in his hometown with some fast and simple movements. He was asking the old Healer if he also could learn this technique but the old man said to him: You already know it!

Dieter Dorn was his last patient, soon after the old man died without teaching Dieter Dorn his knowledge.

So Dieter Dorn had to learn it all by himself. His first patient was his wife who had often severe headaches since years. According to some doctors her transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae where too long and could be shortened by surgery but she refused to be operated.
Dieter Dorn checked his wife’s neck and found that the vertebrae are only twisted and the x-ray was not a correct reading.
He gently pushed the vertebrae back in place while his wife made rotating movements at the same time. Since then her headaches are history and she became the most prominent patient of Dieter Dorn.

That was the beginning of the Dorn Method! Soon after Dieter Dorn helped many people in the neighborhood by correcting their different leg length and aligning their joints.

To his surprise many other ailments like Knee pains, Heart Problems, Hearing Problems and others also seem to have disappeared.
The answer to this he found when he discovered by coincidence a book about TCM traditional Chinese medicine where acupuncture and acupressure was used to help many ailments. During his treatments he accidentally also treated the meridians along the spine and because of the connection between the spinal cord and the inner organs connected through the spinal nerves many problems disappeared when the misaligned vertebrae where corrected.

By meeting and helping Dr. Thomas Hansen M.D. Dieter Dorn started to learn more about anatomy and physiology and together they experimented with this new Method for several years.
Some years later Dieter Dorn decided it was time to teach other people this wonderful Method and he started to give seminars.
Many learned from him and are now following his foot steps with equal success.

Today more and more people from the medical field like doctors, physiotherapists, massage therapists, non medical practitioners and chiropractors are attending these seminars and are amazed about what they learn.

Dieter Dorn still has his sawmill which makes him independent and his simple and very kind personality keeps on impressing his students. He says there are three kinds of thought models in life: What can I do for myself?, What can someone else do for me?, Dieter Dorn lives with the third one: What can I do for others? We are born for others, otherwise our life make no sense, is his opinion. This is a way full of ‘thorns’ (Thorn translates in German as ‘Dorn’) maybe that is why the method is called “Dorn Method”, he jokes.

Scoliosis (from Greek: skoliōsis meaning “crooked condition,” from skolios, “crooked”)^[1] is a medical condition in which a person’s spine is curved from side to side. Although it is a complex three-dimensional deformity, on an x-ray, viewed from the rear, the spine of an individual with a typical scoliosis may look more like an “S” or a “C” than a straight line. It is typically classified as either congenital (caused by vertebral anomalies present at birth), idiopathic (cause unknown, sub-classified as infantile, juvenile, adolescent, or adult according to when onset occurred) or neuromuscular (having developed as a secondary symptom of another condition, such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy or physical trauma).

(Taken from wiki pedia)

Sample of dextro scoliosis

This is impossible to correct through operation but after 12 months of weekly DORN method manual therapy combined with deep tissue  massage, acupuncture and other healing modality, the fleshy hump was significantly reduced. X-ray result is on file showing reduction on the spinal curvature too!.  I have corrected several clients with the same deformity. Success rate depends on the cooperation of the client because there are several posture exercises to do at home. Which must be observed upon waking up inthe morning till going back to bed at night. For severe scoliosis like this, desired result will take years because the bones had been misaligned the past years. I didn’t have client yet with this kind of scoliosis that had been corrected perfectly. But remarkable changes on the hump and pain relief was achieved. At present this client still hopes that we can achieve the desired posture they’ve been praying . It’s a dedicated team work between the therapist and the client.(Copying this image is prohibited).

Manual bone alignment

The first time I met this young lady, I went to the bathroom and talked to God: “Hey! God… when I asked for guidance to open a therapy center, I only mean doing massage therapy, and of course not to this kind of lady! Honestly, I really don’t know what to do with her back.” I was scared! (copying this image is prohibited)

This is the actual x-ray submitted by the client. Notice the severity of the bones’ curvature on the right side. There is a sharp curvature that shows bones almost falling out of place.On the lower left side of the spinal bones, you can see the opening in between the vertebrae. The lower back bones or the lumbar bones are inclined too. The x-ray on the right side is an improved image showing less angle on the curvature. You can also notice the closure of the spaces in between the lumbar bones. Pelvis bone too are almost horizontal in position.(Copying this image is prohibited)

Spinal bone alignment

The whole session is focused in gently pushing the bones. The whole spinal column, that would mean from the base up to the neck. It’s a tedious work. All manual. No machine, no tool, its non invasive & non-surgical. To some individual, the therapy is effective in just a couple of weekly session. But for those who had the deformity for a long time, it will take a lot of patience and determination to achieve a good posture. (copying this image is prohibited)

Its takes a lot of courage to spend time in doing the bone therapy for this special case of severe scoliosis. I have to admit that at first I was not sure if the therapy will be effective. But the client and her family was putting their trust in me that it’s possible to correct the bones. I prayed a lot and give my best to gently push the bones. It’s a weekly one and a half hour session. (copying this image is prohibited).

Veta(not her real name) at her initial visit 2008*six months later* after 12 mos.weekly therapy*her latest foto 2010. She’s an office employee who searched for natural solution to her scoliosis which was bothering her in performing any task. She tried other sort of therapies then chose to have it fixed with my help. This is all done through manual therapy. A combination of bone alignment, massage, acupuncture & reiki healing. It is a team work between the dorn therapist & the client who desires to correct her spine. It also takes a lot of self discipline to consciously observe proper posture all the time. Will her spinal column be restored to normal condition? that’s what we’re praying for! one thing important to her now is there is hope.