Read the testimonials from Pascal Maillé, director of the Clairefontaine Medical Center and a trauma specialist, and Guillaume Vassout, a medical technician at the Clairefontaine Medical Center, on how they have incorporated Galmeon Therapy into their daily practice.
Why did you decide to train in Galmeon Therapy?
Pascal Maillé (P.M.): As a trauma surgeon, I have treated many patients, and for a number of years now I have been convinced that we must treat them holistically, particularly from a cognitive standpoint.
I have also observed AMI (Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition) in my clinical practice, and I needed tools that would allow me to make progress in this area, as conventional rehabilitation sometimes proved ineffective.
From that point on, after learning about Galmeon Therapy, I wanted to incorporate it into our practices at the Clairefontaine Medical Center.
How has this method helped in the care of your patients?
Guillaume Vassout (G.V.): What’s interesting is being able to break through a deadlock and track our progress. We’re better able to identify the most relevant guidance for conducting the session.
P.M.: What I think is important is to start with an assessment—covering the condition, the joint in question, and the state of the muscle—and, in our work at Clairefontaine, the value of Galmeon Therapy lies in its ability to address function.
How have you incorporated the Galmeon method into your daily practice?
P.M.: When it comes to decision-making, we operate as a team with our staff for strategic decisions, and during that process we decided to incorporate Galmeon Therapy.
G.V.: In terms of practical implementation, there are five of us physical therapists, along with the strength and conditioning coach, who have been trained; our goal is to work hand in hand with him in his role in return-to-sport rehabilitation. What’s interesting is being able to schedule Galmeon sessions at strategic times throughout the day, in relation to a player’s return to on-field activity or muscle strengthening.
Another important point is that the players stay at the Center all day, so we can schedule sessions at the times that seem most appropriate given the goals we’re working toward.
For which indications do you see the most results?
G.V.: We’ve conducted about thirty sessions since our training six months ago. At first, we wanted to focus on the “simplest” sessions—the ones that allowed us to work on overcoming purely muscular inhibition.
P.M.: AMI indications for patellar syndrome or rehabilitation of cruciate ligaments or flexors. We also observe motor inhibitions through EMG measurements.
Would you recommend that your colleagues take a training course? Why?
P.M.: From a medical standpoint, the answer is yes. The real challenge associated with recommending this method lies in defining motor inhibitions and ensuring that practitioners understand them, because to properly prescribe a treatment and a method, one must have a thorough understanding of the condition. I therefore recommend the method as a doctor, but only based on a very specific diagnosis.
G.V.: To echo what Pascal said, as a practitioner, I recommend the Galmeon Method if you’re already committed to working with positive energy and consistently engaging in mental imagery—which is something we were already doing before. You could say that Galmeon Therapy has provided a structure and a method for the empirical practices we already had that were working, but the method lends credibility to these practices and opens the door to evaluations and tests to validate the results obtained during the sessions.
