Alois Brugger

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Alois Brügger (born February 14, 1920 in Chur ; † December 6, 2001 in Zurich ) was a Swiss doctor .

Brügger was a neurologist and psychiatrist and has been dealing with the complaints of the human musculoskeletal system since 1955 . His medical studies have yielded findings in diagnostics and therapy for the treatment of functional disorders of the nervous and musculoskeletal system. At that time, pain phenomena of the body that were still inexplicable were treated according to his method. In his opinion, numerous diseases of the human musculoskeletal system known as “rheumatic complaints” can be traced back to incorrect stress on the spine and joints caused by poor posture. The Brügger therapy developed by him and named after him is based on the diagnosis of physical complaints by dividing the muscles into "hypertonic-tendomyotic" and "hypotonic-tendomyotic". It assumes that the muscles can be switched accordingly due to pain and incorrect strain on the musculoskeletal system.

The therapy he developed has survived to this day, so that doctors and, above all, physiotherapists today also use the so-called treatment according to the concept of Dr. Insert Alois Brügger .

The name sternosymphysal syndrome goes back to Alois Brügger .

Fonts (selection)

  • About tendomyosis. 1958.
  • About vertebral, radicular and pseudoradicular syndromes. 1962.
  • Trunk pseudoradicular syndromes. 1965.
  • The sternal syndrome. 1971.
  • The diseases of the musculoskeletal system and its nervous system. 1977; 2nd, revised edition 1980.
  • Textbook of lymphology for medical professionals and physiotherapists. 1989.
  • Textbook of functional disorders of the musculoskeletal system. 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koch-Remmele C., ea: Functional diseases of the movement system according to Brügger: Diagnostics, therapy, self-therapy , Springer, 2007, p. 2ff, ISBN 3540226648 , here online
  2. ^ Heisel J., ea: Physical Medicine - Practical Knowledge of Holding and Movement Organs , Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, p. 16, ISBN 3131398817 , here online
personal data
SURNAME Brugger, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2001
Place of death Zurich