{"id":10061,"date":"2015-05-27T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/fisioterapia\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:10:33","slug":"are-you-familiar-with-the-the-maitland-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/fisioterapia\/en\/are-you-familiar-with-the-the-maitland-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you familiar with the \u2018The Maitland Concept\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An interesting conference about the \u2018Maitland Concept\u2019 took place at \u2018Palacio de Colomina\u2019 last week. In the event, which was organized by INSTEMA<\/a>, a pioneer company from Valencia for the training of physiotherapists and University CEU Cardenal Herrera, the physiotherapist college \u2018Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Fisioterapeutas de la Comunidad Valenciana\u2019 (ICOFCV<\/a>) also took part.<\/p>\n

On the part of the ICOFCV, the members of its governing body, Juan Jos\u00e9 Bru\u00f1o<\/a> and Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Gonz\u00e1les<\/a>, who are coordinators of the Training Section and the Communication respectively, attended. On the part of our Department of Physiotherapy, Eva Segura<\/a>, the vice-dean of Physiotherapy at University CEU Cardenal Herrera took part in the event.<\/p>\n

The conference speaker was Stefan Schiller, physiotherapist and expert in muscular skeletal injuries and professor of the International Maitland Teachers\u2019 Association<\/a> (IMTA), an international association of instructors of \u2018Maitland\u2019. After graduating in his country, Schiller was trained in the United States of America in the method of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation<\/strong> (PNF), which is also known as the \u2018Kabat method\u2019 in honour of Herman Kabat, who developed this method; later Stefan Schiller completed his Master\u2019s degree in Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy.<\/p>\n

The Maitland Concept was developed in the 1960s by the renowned Australian physiotherapist Geoffrey D. Maitland<\/a>, starting with his classic paper entitled \u201cThe Problems of Teaching Vertebral Manipulation<\/em>\u201d, in which he presented a clear differentiation between manipulation and mobilization and became a strong advocate of the use of gentle passive movement in the treatment of pain, in addition to the more forceful techniques used to increase range of motion.<\/p>\n