Future Directions for Research on the Feldenkrais Method

Abstract

As we go into the future, we will be competing with other health care professions who are increasingly evidence based and increasingly effective in what they do. We must continue to do research on Feldenkrais Method so that people understand its effectiveness and so that we ourselves better understand the tools that we are working with and continuing to develop. Research can become/ is becoming part of the conversation about how we use and develop the Feldenkrais Method (FM).
Future research should be based in and developed out of past research and established theory. In this paper, my purpose is to take a broad view of possible research questions and not limit the discussion to one or another particular area. I will reprint paper titles in bibliography form and where possible abstracts of published research to give a vibrant sense of the research that has been done. The research will be grouped into several different areas for convenience of discussion. Each area will be approached as suggested above by first addressing functional outcomes, then mechanisms and finally theory. The references (abstracts) following each section are in rough alphabetical order within that section.