| When Rudolf Siener died on the 8th of April 1993 after a short illness, he left us his brainchild, the New Pain and Organ Therapy (German, NPSO = Neue Punktuelle Schmerz- und Organtherapie). He handed down to us a very effective therapeutic tool which he had developed during years of painstaking research and in co-operation with the patients of his surgery. NPSO therapy has so far proved most effective with pain of the locomotor system. It is still a relatively new therapy which has increasingly shown success in the treatment of organ dysfunctions. NPSO is considered to be a therapy working on the neural level as well as the level of energy, making use of a new system of reflex areas. The exact points of treatment are found through measurements of the electrical resistance of the skin within these areas (Figure 1). The points of treatment are called MEP (German, MEP = Maximaler Energiepunkt) and show higher electrical resistance. They are situated on the extremities, distally from the centre of pain (German, SZ = Schmerzzentrum), and they are connected with it through a hypothetical energy line (EL = Energetische Linie). This means that pain is treated at a distance, not at the actual pain spot. Through manipulation of the relevant MEPs pain can be relieved immediately and, under certain circumstances, permanently. |