Spiral dynamics

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Spiraldynamik is a movement and therapy concept marketed by a Swiss franchise company. Sufficient scientific studies to validate the concept are not yet available.

With the help of "spiral dynamics", the developers believe that healthy movement can be explained, experienced and taught. It is used in rehabilitation and prevention .
"Spiraldynamik" is also the name and word mark with which this concept is marketed for physiotherapists.

The concept uses the helix (spiral) as a basic static element to describe motion sequences . As a dynamic principle, "the wave " is used as a metaphor . Therapists try to define “healthy movements” that should be learned under physiotherapeutic guidance.

Coordination Unit and Pole

According to this model, the human movement system is divided into functional units (“coordination units”) between terminal bones, the “poles”. The head and pelvis, for example, represent the poles of the trunk coordination unit . Other coordination units are hand , foot , shoulder , hip , arm and leg . Poles are, for example, the head , pelvis , head of the humerus ( caput humeri ), shoulder blade , heel bone ( calcaneus ), forefoot and first and fifth metatarsal bones .

Spiral movement

C-arcs in the foot:
lengthways through the arching between the forefoot and heel poles and
transversely through the arching between the poles of the first and fifth metatarsal bones

Spiral movements are three-dimensional movements with six degrees of freedom . Its components are “C-arm”, “counter-rotation” and “S-shape”: The C-arm is created by the mirror-symmetrical curling of two poles, for example the first and fifth metatarsal bones . The counter-rotation is characterized by the opposite rotation of two poles, for example the calcaneus in supination and the forefoot in pronation . The S-shape is created by the axially symmetrical movement of two poles, for example the calcaneus in adduction , forefoot in abduction .

  • C-arm

  • S-bow

  • rotation

Findings and Treatment

The basis of the treatment is the functional findings obtained in an examination , which seeks connections between the movement behavior and the patient's complaints. According to movement instructions, the patient should implement the newly learned or relearned movement independently in their individual everyday life. Spiral dynamics is - in the sense of accompanying physiotherapy or occupational therapy - particularly suitable for complaints that are related to non-physiological movement behavior. Examples of this are herniated disc , foot deformities ( splayfeet , buckle foot , flat foot , hallux valgus , equinus foot ), hand complaints ( carpal tunnel syndrome ), tennis elbow ( epicondylitis ), osteoarthritis .

literature

  • Antje Hüter-Becker (eds.), Christian Heel, Ulrich Betz: Textbook on the new thinking model of physiotherapy. Volume 1: Movement System . Thieme, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-1313-0141-4 .
  • Christian Larsen: Feet in good hands: spiral dynamics programmed therapy for concrete results . Thieme, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-1313-5552-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of the trademark entry at tmdb
  2. ↑ Entry spiral dynamics at Swissreg
  3. ↑ Margrit List, Physiotherapy in Traumatology , Issue 5, Chap. 19, Verlag Springer, 2008, ISBN 3-540-68241-4

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