Elisabeth Dicke

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Elisabeth Dicke , née Elisabeth Amann , (born March 12, 1884 in Lennep ; † August 11, 1952 in Überlingen ) was a German physiotherapist . She developed the connective tissue massage .

Life

Dicke was born in Lennep in 1884 as the daughter of a manufacturer and married Hans Dicke in 1904. She trained as a physiotherapist in Berlin and then ran her own practice in Wuppertal-Barmen.

In 1929 Elisabeth Dicke suffered from circulatory disorders in her right leg . She was in a wheelchair and was threatened with amputation. To treat the back pain caused by lying down for long periods of time, she massaged herself on the pelvis, which not only relieved the back pain, but also improved the blood circulation in the leg. She was also able to cure her own organic illnesses such as renal colic with massages. Based on this experience, she developed a treatment method in her physiotherapy practice in which the massage of different body areas influences other organs. She later discovered that corresponding relationships between skin zones and internal organs had already been described by Henry Head . In 1938 she was invited by Hede Teirich-Leube , director of the crane gymnastics school in Freiburg im Breisgau, to demonstrate her method. In the following year the method was clinically tested in Freiburg, from which the book Massage reflectoric zones in connective tissue for rheumatic and internal diseases emerged and from this the name of the method connective tissue massage .

Gravestone in Überlingen

Elisabeth Dicke moved to Überlingen on Lake Constance in 1942 and gave training courses in her method there until the summer of 1952. She died on August 11, 1952. She did not live to see the publication of her second book “My connective tissue massage”.

Fonts

  • with Hede Teirich-Leube: Massage of reflective zones in the connective tissue for rheumatic and internal diseases. A new technique . Jena 1942.
  • My connective tissue massage . Hippokrates-Verlag Marquardt & Cie., Stuttgart 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Dicke and Hede Teirich-Leube: Massage of reflective zones in the connective tissue for rheumatic and internal diseases . Jena, 1942.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Dicke: My connective tissue massage . Hippokrates-Verlag Marquardt & Cie., Stuttgart, 1953. pp. 10f
personal data
SURNAME Fat, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amann, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physiotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1952
Place of death Überlingen