Jochen Sachse (medical doctor)

Jochen Sachse (born November 7, 1931 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 6, 2005 ) was a German neurologist and specialist in physiotherapy.

Career

Sachse played a key role in building up manual therapy as part of physiotherapy in the GDR and actively promoted its dissemination in teaching. He is one of the first doctors in Germany to learn the basics and practical application of manual medicinefounded and together with H.-D. Wolff from Trier have placed it on a scientific basis from the start. Sachse completed his medical studies in his native Halle in 1957 and performed his compulsory assistant at the local clinics in the following years. He received specialist training at the University Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry in Halle from Helmut Rennert (1920–1994), whom he greatly admired and whose “textbook on neurology and psychiatry” he later added with a chapter “Physiotherapeutic measures in neurology”. In Halle, he quickly filled specific functional areas such as neuroradiology , physiotherapy and EEG . As a neurologist, Sachse was sensitized to functional thinking in manual medicine. His second specialist training at the Charité Polyclinic for Physiotherapy and his inpatient work as a neurologist at the Clinic for Physiotherapy in Berlin-Buch resulted in a fruitful combination for a deeper analysis of the function and dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system, creating a bridge between the nervous and motor systems could beat, basis of today's manual medicine. From 1969 to 1975, Sachse carried out a special neurological-manual medical consultation. In 1975 he took over the management of the large outpatient institute for physiotherapy in Berlin-Friedrichshain with 70 employees. There he established outpatient diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of functional disorders of the movement system in addition to the already extensive range of therapies for the entire physiotherapy. Sachse continued the standard work on therapeutic massage by his predecessor, Anneliese Hamann, in 1986 with the publication of “Massage in Words and Images”.

Encouraged by his cousin H.-D. Wolff he took part in a course system of the FAC for seven years from 1958, which was held in the Ore Mountains under Wolff and Karel Lewits direction. It was here that Sachse established contacts with the Prague school at an early stage, which he maintained as a close relationship from the 1960s. in particular the neurologist and manual medicine specialist Karel Lewit (1916–2015) and Vladimir Janda (1928–2003) specializing in neurological rehabilitation and muscle function tests. Thanks to these close relationships, the Prague concept, which in manual medicine saw the unity of diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of functional pathological diseases of the entire musculoskeletal system, including the muscles and their control, could be integrated into the teaching content on manual therapy.

Sachse advocated an exact functional examination, he taught manual medical techniques. For decades he was the leading instructor for manual medicine in Berlin (GDR) and thus became the founder of the “Berlin Concept” or the “Berlin School” of manual medicine, which became the Medical Association for Manual Medicine - Medical Seminar Berlin (ÄMM) eV emerged.

He led the group of manual medicine doctors in the "Society for Physiotherapy of the GDR", initially with Günther Metz in a "Manual Therapy Working Group" and later in a separate "Manual Therapy Section" of this society, in which they have almost 90% of the members posed. He also bravely faced resistance from his own teaching staff when the importance of muscles in manual medicine became increasingly evident in the 1970s. The physiotherapist has always seen Sachse as a partner to the doctor. In 1988 his poor health forced him to give up his leadership role in the institute. However, he continued to work as the headmaster even after the reunification and the founding of the ÄMM and its admission to the German Society for Manual Medicine (DGMM) in 1991 until Ms. Karla Schildt-Rudloff, his co-author of books and teaching texts, took up this position in 1998 . As early as 1969 he published his fundamental work on " Hypermobility of the movement system as a potential disease factor", which was supplemented in 1976 with a stepped test to assess the movement type and expanded in 1984 to include the aspect of central coordination disorder. In 1973 the first edition of the "Manual Examination and Mobilization Treatment of the Limb Joints" came out, the 7th edition of which had already appeared before Sachses death in 2005. His presentation in 1978 at the 25th annual conference of the Society for Orthopedics (GDR) in Dresden on "Manual medicine aspects of cervical pain syndromes using the example of segment loosening" reminded the orthopedic surgeon of the functional way of thinking as a condition sine qua non for diagnostics and therapy on the movement system was already included in the definition of orthopedics by Alfred Schanz . In 1989, together with Karla Schildt-Rudloff, he wrote the ÄMM's own work instructions “Spine. Manual examination and mobilization treatment ”published, a work that can hardly be surpassed in terms of precision in the formulation of motor processes in this area. In 1993, Sachse became an honorary member of the ÄMM and the Czech Medical Association Jana Evangelisty Purkyně .

Fonts

• Massage in words and pictures. Basics and implementation of the healing massage. Founded by Anneliese Hamann. G. Fischer 1987, ISBN 978-3-43711135-8 .
• Manual examination and mobilization treatment of the extremity joints . Berlin, 1973
• Manual medicine through the decades. Episode 1: Jochen Sachse, MM 1999, pp. 48–52 5. K. Schildt-Rudloff, J. Sachse, G. Harke: Spine. Manual examination and mobilization treatment for doctors and physiotherapists , Munich, 2016
• Reversible hypomobile articular dysfunction. Manual Medicine 1998 36: 176-181

literature

• R. Lemke, H. Rennert: Neurology and Psychiatry . 1965.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jochen Sachse in the catalog of the German National Library

swell

• Hermann Tlusteck: Jochen Sachse - on his death, Jochen Sachse - In Memory . Phys Med Rehab Kuror 2005; 15 (3): 185-186 doi: 10.1055 / s-2005-866844
• Giesela Coburger: History in Stories - The Development of Physiotherapists in Manual Therapy in the GDR and ÄMM eV Eigenverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053256-6 .
• Wilfried Witte: Unheard of sufferings. The history of pain therapy in Germany in the 20th century . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50660-9 .