AGM 2019
Invitation for the next Meeting 2019 in Vallejo, California.
Oct. 23.-26. 2019
For further Information and details regarding the meeting
Please refer to www.ipnfavallejo.wixsite.com/2019
The organization team is looking forward seeing you in Vallejo
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20. May 2019
Left to right Carsten Schäfer , Irmi Feldmann, Anna Riviere, Dominiek Beckers
We are happy to announce 2 new IPNFA Basic instructors: Irmi Feldmann from Switzerland and Anna Rivière from Germany. Course date of ICC: from 22nd till 27th Feb and 25th till 30th April, 2019 in Opole, Poland.We are proud that we could support Anna and Irmi in this dynamic process till their IPNFA- instructor-status and we wish them success in their professional future.
Best regards,
Dominiek and Carsten.
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08. July 2018
two new Basic Instructors
Jose Paulo Moté Barboza from Brasil and Ki Kyung-il from Korea
Congratulations!
For past IPNFA Announcements: see News
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The objectives of the IPNFA are as follows:
To promote further worldwide development of the clinical use of PNF
To maintain continuity and standards in the instruction of PNF techniques
To maintain continuity and standards in PNF course material for beginning and advanced students
To educate and train new PNF instructors
To promote research into PNF theory and practice
To identify further developments in the PNF concept
To ensure that developments in neurophysiology and other related fields (ICF, Neuroplasticity, etc) are incorporated into PNF clinical practice
To develop peer review in order to maintain the necessary clinical and educational standards required to teach PNFWe hope to see you at one of our courses!
Propriozeptive Neuromuskuläre Fazilitation
Historical perspective of PNF
What we know today as PNF began as "proprioceptive facilitation", a term developed by Dr. Herman Kabat in the early 1940's. In 1954, Dorothy Voss added the word "neuromuscular" to give us the now familiar Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, (PNF).
His goal was to develop a hands-on treatment approach that enabled clinicians to analyze and assess a patient's movement while at the same time facilitating more efficient strategies of functional movement. So it is important to recognize that PNF is not just a treatment approach, rather, it is a tool that allows for simultaneous assessment and treatment of neuromuscular dysfunction. In the mid-1940's, Dr. Kabat's emerging concepts caught the attention of the wealthy industrialist Henry Kaiser, whose son suffered from multiple sclerosis. Together, in 1946, they established the Kaiser-Kabat Institute in Washington, DC. In 1948, another Kaiser-Kabat Institute was opened in Vallejo, California, and a third opened in Santa Monica, California in 1950. It was in the mid to late 1940's that Dr. Kabat began his search for a Physical Therapist to work alongside him, treating patients using his new concepts. In December 1945 Maggie Knott became the first Physical Therapist to be employed by Dr. Kabat. Maggie came westward from Washington, DC to Vallejo with Dr. Kabat in 1948.
In 1952, Dorothy Voss joined Dr. Kabat and Maggie Knott. Dorothy and Maggie authored the first PNF book in the early 1960's. Together, the three of them continued to develop and refine the foundational concepts of what we know today as PNF. From its beginnings, PNF has successfully integrated many of the concepts of contemporary neurorehab interventions. The Philosophy and Basic Principles of PNF, together with the specific spiral and diagonal patterns, make up the cornerstone of PNF. PNF also includes mot or learning and functional retention of newly learned activities with the repetition of a specific demand; the use of the developmental progression of motor behavior that enables patients to create and re-create strategies of efficient functional movement; and the biomechanical and behavioral analysis of motor control. All activities within PNF intervention are directed towards a functional goal and are relative to the environment in which the goal is to be achieved. |
Dr. Herman Kabat
Maggie Knott
To learn more about the creation of the PNF Concept, you may enjoy reading this article from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Vol. 5, 453-461, June 2013.
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