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STEPHEN TYPALDOS, DO

Life and work

American physician, Stephen Typaldos, D.O, founder of the Fascial Distortion Model, was born on March 25, 1957 in Pasadena, CA and died in Bangor, Maine on April 5, 2006. He is the father of four: Alexander, Brooke, Anastasia and Carissa. He graduated from UHSCOM in Kansas City, Missouri in 1986, and completed his internship and residency in Ohio, practiced in Maryland from 1989-1991 and then moved to Yuba City, CA. However, both an injury that interfered with his practice of medicine and an insistent patient sent him down a path that resulted in his discoveries about musculoskeletal injuries and how they could be easily identified and quickly resolved using primarily manual interventions. The last ten years of his medical practice were devoted to developing manipulative treatments and the framework for envisioning and treating acute and long-standing injuries which he called the Fascial Distortion Model.

Typaldos discovered the first fascial distortion, which he called a Triggerband, in September 1991 in Yuba City, CA. Later that month he discovered, defined and successfully treated Herniated Triggerpoints. The first Continuum Distortion was discovered in March of 1992. Typaldos gave the first lecture on his discoveries in Las Vegas on March 25, 1992 (his 35th birthday). By early 1993 he had envisioned folding distortions and began using the term Fascial Distortion Model. He completed writing his first three papers in April 1993 and they were subsequently published in the AAO Journal in 1994 and 1995. These articles described only four fascial distortions and included artist’s drawings of the distortions that had come from cadaver studies in the lab. By 1995 Typaldos had discovered the other two distortions (Cylinder Distortions and Tectonic Fixations) and felt that there were only six. He developed many of his early treatments working in the Emergency Room in Texas and then later in his practice in Brewer, Maine.1

“The fascial distortion model is an anatomical perspective in which the underlying etiology of virtually every musculoskeletal injury (and many neurological and medical conditions as well) is considered to be comprised of one or more of six specific pathological alterations of the body’s connecting tissues (fascial bands, ligaments, tendons, retinacula, etc.). This model not only allows for strikingly effective manipulative treatments for diverse afflictions such as pulled muscles, fractures, and frozen shoulders, but the results are objective, obvious, measurable, and immediate.”2

Typaldos presented numerous seminars in the USA and around the world (Austria, Japan, France, Portugal, and Germany) as he taught physicians and international osteopaths about his discoveries and insights into musculoskeletal injuries and pain. He also described hypothetical FDM treatments for preventing heart attacks and treating patients with post-stroke paralysis.

Publications

Introducing the Fascial Distortion Model, American Academy of Osteopathy (AAO) Journal, Vol.4, No. 2, Summer 1994: 14-18, 30-36. (Reprinted in UK) The Osteopath, Vol.1, No.2, Spring 1995.

Triggerband Technique, AAO Journal, Vol.4, No.4, Winter 1994: 15-18, 30-33. (Reprinted in UK) The Osteopath, Vol.1, No.3, Summer 1995.

Continuum Technique, AAO Journal, Vol.5, No.2, Summer 1995: 15-19. (Reprinted in UK) The Osteopath, Vol.1, No,4, Autumn 1995.

Cylinder Distortions, Still Alive (Electronic Journal), December 1995. Orthopathic Medicine: The Unification of Orthopedics with Osteopathy Through the Fascial Distortion Model •	First Edition, 1997, Orthopathic Global Health Publications (OGHP), Brewer, ME •	Second Edition, 1998, OGHP, Brewer, ME •	Third Edition, 1999, OGHP, Brewer, ME •	Japanese Edition, 1998, Sky East Publishing, Tokyo, Japan •	German Edition, Verlag für Ganzheltiliche Medicin (VGM), Kötzting, Germany, 1999

FDM – Clinical and Theoretical Application of the Fascial Distortion Model Within the Practice of Medicine and Surgery •	2002, Orthopathic Global Health Publications (OGHP), Brewer, ME •	Japanese Edition, 2004, FDM Asia Association, Fukuoka, Japan

References

1 Kasten, Marjorie: An Introduction to the Fascial Distortion Model. American FDM Association. 2010, p. 7-8.

2Typaldos D.O., Stephen, FDM: Clinical and Theoretical Application of the Fascial Distortion Model Within the Practice of Medicine and Surgery, 2002, p.3.

External links

www.afdma.com http://www.fdm-europe.com/en_US/ http://osteopathie-blog.blogspot.com/ http://www.typaldos-akademie.de/ http://www.fdm.cc/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Typaldos