Andrzej Pilat - Myofascial Induction

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In May 2016 I had the opportunity to show a sample chapter of this book to Dr. Leon Chaitow. On reviewing it carefully, he exclaimed: I want this book! He also generously agreed to my request to write the books foreword. I promised he would be the first to read the book. Sadly, his sudden passing did not allow me to fulfill my promise.

I am honored to dedicate the book to the memory of this great person, clinician, researcher, writer, lecturer, educator, editor, and visionary.

Andrzej Pilat

Andrzej Pilat is a physical therapist. Born in Poland, throughout his professional life he has practiced across continents. This has given him the opportunity to be involved in a variety of aspects of physical therapy: health care (a bustling hospital environment; the mystery of an operating room; the adrenaline of intensive care units; and the intimacy of a private practice); teaching (in a university setting, tutoring graduate and undergraduate students); research (decoding the human bodys enigma by dissecting unembalmed cadavers); management (he has been chair of domestic professional associations and international organizations); publishing (he was an editor for the Venezuelan Manual Therapy journal); and information dissemination (he is the author of several papers and books). These experiences have led him to a better understanding of peoples culture, customs, and attitudes towards diseases, thus awakening his interest in therapeutic approaches and treatments that will adapt as effectively as possible to the individual, as opposed to the disease. In his quest, Andrzej has experienced a fruitful array of different approaches to physical therapy, with a wide range of exercises, modalities, applications (devices), manual applications, and concepts learned from well-known masters, such as Maitland, Mulligan, McKenzie, Upledger, Barnes, Greenman, and others. The study of different concepts of manual therapy has occupied the last 35 years of his career and he has become intensely interested in fascia in the search for answers to the (always) global response of the body to disease and healing.

Andrzejs experience as a photographer has allowed him to immerse himself in the intimacies of the unembalmed cadaver, capturing in pictures the beauty of the inner body architecture. The pages of this book reflect these experiences by taking the reader on a fascinating journey through the puzzle of the fascia, from a microbiological, anatomical, biomechanical, neuroscientific, and even psychological and philosophical approach.

Today Andrzej leads the Myofascial Therapy School, Tupimek, in El Escorial (Madrid), Spain, where he gives instruction in Myofascial Induction Therapy (MIT), in collaboration with certified teachers both in Spain and worldwide. Andrzej lectures in specialized workshops and teaches for different masters programs in local universities and abroad. He has participated in numerous international congresses about fascia, manual therapy, and physical therapy in general. In recent years, his participation in webinars has resulted in a growing international following. Myofascial Induction: An anatomical approach to the treatment of fascial dysfunction is the result of five years of intense research through a vast amount of scientific evidence about the fascias increasing importance to peoples health and illnesses.

Eduardo Castro-Martn PT, MSc, CO

Physiotherapist, Vrtex Centro, Granada, Spain

International Lecturer

Academic Coordinator and Certificated Teacher, Tupimek Myofascial Therapy School, Madrid, Spain

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Granada University, Granada, Spain

Germn Digerolamo BS(Kin), MNeuro

Kinesiologist and Physiotherapist

International Lecturer

Academic Coordinator and Certificated Teacher, Tupimek Myofascial Therapy School, Madrid, Spain

Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiotherapy, Segovia, Spain

Mrtin Pilat PT, MSc, CO

Physiotherapist and Manual Therapist, Tupimek Physiotherapy Center, El Escorial, Spain

International Lecturer

Sub-Director and Certificated Teacher, Tupimek Myofascial Therapy School, Madrid, Spain

I do not recall when and where I first met Andrzej Pilat, but I suspect it was at either a myofascial pain congress, a fascia congress, or a physiotherapy course or conference somewhere in the world. Often Andrzejs travels coincided with mine, and every time I attended his lectures several thoughts and associations came to mind. It was clear to me that this man is an innovator in the field of physiotherapy and beyond someone who follows in the footsteps of other innovators from many different fields, dispelling the many erroneous belief systems so common in our discipline. I have a feeling that already, during his time as a physiotherapy student, young Andrzej would have been questioning his tutors and challenged their teachings and convictions about physiotherapy treatment methods. In a time when the terms evidence-based and evidence-informed physiotherapy had not been invented, Andrzej was probably way ahead of many of his professors in his critical thinking skills and vision for the profession.