Bone breaker

The title of this article is ambiguous. See also: Bone Breaker Curve , Bone Breaker Fever , they called it Bone Breaker or Bone Breaker in the Wild West .

Bone breaker ( Low German Knakenbreker ) is a popular East Frisian name for a traditional alternative healer . Bone breaker skills include straightening limbs and indenting vertebrae - their practices sometimes rely on a special skill . It was not uncommon for the "office" and the ability to break bones to be passed on in the family.

The range of treatments is not limited to humans, but also extends to dogs , cats , horses and other animals. The profession of bone breaker became known throughout Germany through the bone breaker Tamme Hanken (1960–2016), who specializes in horses and who had his own TV series on NDR television .

See also

• Horse Whisperer
• Chiropractic
• Manual medicine
• Osteopathy (alternative medicine)

literature

• Johann Haddinga , Theo Schuster: The book of East Frisian humor. Volume 2, Schuster Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-7963-0188-6 , p. 49.
• Lothar Gall , Andreas Schulz (ed.): Knowledge communication in the 19th century. (= Nassau Talks of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft , Volume 6.) Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-515-08226-3 , p. 19.
• E. Rudolph: Fitter, Boanrichter, Knakenbreker. Encounters with village chiropractors in the Allgäu, East Frisia and Austria. In: Curare , edition 6/1983, pp. 97–116.