Gelsenkirchen treatment method

The Gelsenkirchen treatment method is a controversial, scientifically unrecognized treatment method for neurodermatitis and bronchial asthma , which is only offered at the Gelsenkirchen Children's and Youth Clinic . It is a complex psychotherapy and behavioral treatment on the assumption that these diseases are based on an incorrect response to psychological stress.

The treatment is interdisciplinary as part of a usually 3-week inpatient stay and includes a parent accompanying person in addition to the sick child. The therapy includes medical, psychological, nursing and nutritional measures and, if necessary, allergy tests ( skin prick test , IgE , possibly immune tests), lung function tests , low-allergen and low-acid diet, if necessary oral provocation with food and the elimination of environmentally harmful substances. Special emphasis is placed on learning stress management skills. The method was developed by the pediatrician Ernst August Stemmann between 1970–1980 and published in 2002 together with Sibylle Stemmann.

criticism

Stemmann had positively assessed the ineffective New Medicine of the pseudoscientist Ryke Geerd Hamer as a pathology. Stemmann's theory is reminiscent of the "biological conflict shocks" that Hamer wanted to have found as the sole cause of any disease. Stemmann only partially distanced his method from that of "New Medicine": in contrast to the Gelsenkirchen method, this uses computed tomography for "diagnosis". A particularly sharp criticism comes from a long-time employee of the clinic, the psychologist Wolfgang Klosterhalfen .

The Gelsenkirchen treatment method was reported in 2011 in the journal Praktische Pädiatrie (4/2011, 196–202). The 15 small children examined showed improvements in their skin condition, but there was no comparison group. Just like the related Schwelm model , it is therefore being viewed critically by the medical service of the health insurance companies and the scientific representatives.

literature

• Galileo from Gelsenkirchen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2005 ( online ).

Web links

• Reich, Daniel: “The Gelsenkirchen treatment model”, in: SWR2 Leben , broadcast on July 16, 2008
• Website of Wolfgang Klosterhalfen
• Neurodermitistherapie.info : Answers from Andreas Wollenberg to letters from readers about the Gelsenkirchen treatment method: [1] , [2]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: excerpts from the book "Self-healing (spontaneous healing) of neurodermatitis" by Stemmann )
2. ↑ Website of Allergy and Environmentally Sick Child eV Berlin ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Dennis Ballwieser: Galilei from Gelsenkirchen. Der Spiegel from March 7, 2005
4. ↑ Siegfried Bär: Quackery on sick leave? Laboratory journal online. September 8, 2006
5. ↑ Statement by the Hessian state government on the subject of neurodermatitis (PDF; 33 kB)

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