Dorn Spinal Therapy

In the 70’s Dieter Dorn, who lives in the southern part of Germany, suffered from lumbago which was so painful, he could hardly move. He had tried various treatments that didn’t give him any relieve, so he decided to see a healer he had heard of, a farmer, whose so called healing miracles he had not taken seriously as he was not a medical practitioner or anything like it. His experience with this healer though, who worked on him by only applying pressure to his vertebrae with his thumbs, was obviously very impressive. He was able to move freely and easily again and also could go back to work at his sawmill, a physically very hard and straining work.

Barbara Simon and Dieter Dorn

Asking the old healer how he could learn that sort of treatment he told him that he didnt have to learn it, he just had to do it. A few months later the 80 year old man died and left Dieter Dorn with a “mission”.

He was determined to go and help others with this fantastic treatment and started “trialling” on his first patient, his wife. She had been suffering from severe headaches for the last 20 years. The physician had advised her to have surgery, but she considered surgery too risky. So Dieter Dorn started working on her and the result was very satisfying as he could only visualise from memory of his own treatment rather than know what to do on her spine. Within a few hours the headache had diminished and after a few more treatments gone completely. With this positive experience he dared going on practicing on other people from family and neighbourhood and gained more and more confidence the more success he had.

It didn't take long for the word to spread and people from everywhere started to see him for relief from back pain even doctors and orthopedists came to get relief of him and eventually also to learn how to apply that treatment. Today Dorn Spinal Therapy is a well recognized treatment particularly in Europe and often is chosen over chiropractic adjustment or manipulation.

There are over 2000 certified practitioners in more than 20 countries - among them lots of doctors and leading medical specialists in their fields. And if you look at their successes it is no wonder that Dorn Spinal Therapy is taking bigger and bigger steps in order to get known amongst back pain sufferers as well as practitioners. And because it can be used on chronic pain conditions just as well and easily as on acute pain there is hardly any reason why one could not go and experience a treatment to see if it might help for their specific pain.

In fact, there are many testimonies of people that have been saved from surgery or have been in pain for years and even decades and finally, after discovering Dorn Spinal Therapy, become pain free for the first time in many years. How lucky for them that they did give it a go and had access to a practitioner. One reason why I decided a few years ago to start training more practitioners in Australia so more people with back pain, no matter how severe, could have a new chance.