How did the Trager Approach develop?
The Trager® Approach was the creation of a single individual, Milton Trager, M.D. He first encountered its simple principles and its surprising effects intuitively, and almost accidentally, at the age of 18. He then spent the next 50 years, first as a lay practitioner and later as a medical professional, expanding and refining his approach. Dr. Trager’s manner of manipulating the body is not a technique or a method, in the sense that there are no rigid procedures which are claimed to produce specific symptomatic results. Rather, it is an approach, a way of learning and of teaching movement re-education. He stressed that his clients should come to him ready to absorb a lesson, instead of ready simply to receive a treatment. Trager is not concerned with moving particular muscles or joints, per se, but with using motion in muscles and joints to produce particular sensory feelings — positive, pleasurable feelings which enter the central nervous system and begin to trigger tissue chang
