The Academy honors students completing AFE Medicine courses for certification
and provides links to physicians and teachers using these methods
Academy Of Functional Exercise
Medicine
AFEMMaking Medicine and Exercise Healthy for People and Communities
Brains, Brawn, Function, Fun
Fitness is not just in a gym. Health comes from all your actions.
With this honor comes the responsibility of continuing as a living example
of healthy movement, thought, and action. Always rise to this meaning.
Carry on for a healthier, happier, peaceful world.
Academy Practitioners
Dr. Clara Hsu, M.D. family medicine physician, Santa Monica CA. www.clarahsumd.com. Featured in How Doctors Help Patients With Fitness Fixer and How Doctors Use The Wall Stand.
David Demets. Yoga teacher, Belgium. www.hierennu.be. Developed and teaches an improved new yoga system. He presented it at a world yoga congress. His system corrects for the widespread pain syndromes from flexion overuse, and reduces the cause instead of adhering to set ritual pose sequences - Getting the Right Yoga Medicine.
Jim Morris, Mr. America. Venice, CA. Mr. Universe 1977. Physical Fitness Hall Of Fame with Bill Pearl, Jack Lalanne 1978. Mr. Olympia Masters 1996. More on his site www.gymmorris.com. He encourages responsibility, lifelong fitness, and my Ab Revolution retraining technique. Featured in Mr. America Urges Goodness and Responsibility.Paul Plevakas. Shotokan Karate Sensei, Philadelphia. www.PaulPlevakas.com. Teaches healthy martial arts. Black Belt Hall of Fame Inductee. Featured on the cover of the textbook Healthy Martial Arts. Runs the Academy's Martial Arts department.
Audrey Tannenbaum, M.Ed, ATC, C.S.C.S., Pennsylvania. Certified Athletic Trainer, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Maccabean Games Triathlon Gold Medallist.
Academy Appointments
Stuart Wood has been appointed Academy Director of Community Projects.
See his initiative to add healthy movement methods to existing organizations:A water reharvesting program using healthy body mechanics for digging and building,
An after-school program that teaches healthy movement is fun,
A wellness pilot program in his city of Tucson to reduce the high rate of strain related injuries in workersAcademy Appointment for Making Community Projects Healthy
StuartShip - Healthy Movement ProgramsMore project developments to come.
To be involved, contact Stuart Wood, Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine
Peggy Santamaria has been appointed Academy Director of Developing Abilities.
Her new program works with job coaches to train and find employment for developmentally disabled adults:The program teaches healthy movement techniques to train useful work skills and prevent injuries.
Projects include snow removal, landscaping, housekeeping, and other.
We hope this program will become a model for programs all over the nation like it
Another program in development is to provide healthy movement and training skills for Special Olympics participantsPeggy practices what she teaches - Shoveling Snow - Reader Wins Mother Nature's Fitness Challenge with Fitness Fixer
More project description to follow here.
Academy Certified
Students, dedicated to healthy ways to move and think, come from all over the world to take our classes.
Message to practitioners and students from Academy Headmaster Dr. Jolie Bookspan:
"Your students and patients will watch you for healthy ways to live and move; How you sit, bend, reach, lift, eat, and speak of others. Show them real health. Rather than mandate specific chair angles for sitting, show how to sit in healthful ways no matter what you sit upon. Get people off their chairs (and other sitting devices) if you want to call the activity real exercise. Show how to control your own ankles, spine, knees, and neck position when standing and moving. No exercises or muscle strengthening will hold you properly--you do that--and that is exercise as a lifestyle. Remember that in much of the world, people lift and carry just to have food and water. It is not progress to do artificial motions indoors on a machine, to do "fitness activities" in unhealthful ways, or to exercise then return to unhealthful motions for daily life. Live beautifully. Do good in the world. Laugh.
"I attended the Academy!"
Student Chady Albert Yammine says:
" I am a remedial massage therapist and i was lucky to meet AFEM to learn new techniques and fulfill my dream"
Certification Honor Roll
Your certificate expires one year from your completion date. It needs exercise. To stay current, send in your successes stories of using what we taught you to make a healthier pain free world for people or communities. This is different from agencies who charge a fee. Remember: Integrity, goodness, and honest healthy ways are your truest membership in the Academy. We care about the progress and successes you will have with this education. Send your photos and stories. Join us for other classes and projects. Check the Academy web site frequently.
Academy Headmaster Dr. Jolie Bookspan commends you for completing this Academy certification class.
Certified - Balance Training, From Theory To Practice
6 hrs. Completed Nov 14, 2009. Instructor: George Nakhlé, Physical Therapist
1- Ghada Jaber
2- Ali Zeitoun
3- Chadi Yammine
4- Laian Ziad Najjar
5- Joyce Maasri
6- Mohammad Baydoun
Students learn to recognize bad movement habits - not to round the spine (demonstrated by student in white shirt left)
or slouch in hyperlordosis (blue stripes) while balancing
They learn to stand and move in healthier straighter position instead.
Certified - Medical Breakthroughs in Fixing Neck and Back Pain
4.5 hours. Completed Oct 3, 2009. Temple University, Philadelphia. Instructor: Dr. Jolie Bookspan1- LInda Hsu. Congratulations Ms. Hsu, the only student to complete certification by course end.
Therapist LInda Hsu says: "It was a true pleasure and honor to experience Dr. Bookspan "live" and to see her embody everything she teaches and writes about. I have finally found a teacher who knows the "whys" of chronic pain, and is willing to take the time to explain and investigate causes and solutions. I am grateful that you have taken so much time and care to present such invaluable information in such an accessible way. Everything taught in this class was backed by research and science and can be immediately applied to activities of daily living - Brilliant!
Certified - Thai Massage
25 hrs. Completed Oct 10, 2009. Instructor: George Nakhlé, Physical Therapist
1 - Joyce Assaad Maasry - Finished first in the class, plus Stretch Certification
2 - Darine Fouad El Hajj
3 - Patricia Anis Bou Jaoude
4 - Wael Antonios Dagher
5 - Pierre Josef Mardini - Distinguished himself as good student.
6 - Wafaa El Haybe Sarkis
7 - Mohammad Fayez Allaw
8 - Marwan Sami Nasr
Student Pierre Mardini says: "Dear Mr. George, you are a professional teacher."
Certified - Stretching Smarter and Healthier
12 hrs. Completed May 30, 2009. Lecturer: George Nakhlé, Physical Therapist
1 - Khaled Taher
2 - Maha Marzouk
3 - Rina Mansour
4 - Heggy Edoyan
5 - Amira Khourchid
6 - Jackeline Yazbeck
7 - Moussa Ghazaly
8 - Mireille Makhraz
9 - Elie Saba
10 - Firas Samir Nassif
11 - Béninia Elias Nasr
12 - Rola Rachid Maalouf
13 - Firas Badawi YazbeckStudent Khaled Taher, physical therapist, says:
"This course is very useful.
I changed many wrong knowledge learned at university!
I grasped many good exercises! thank you George very much
for your rich information and skills given to me!"
Certified - Fix and Prevent Injuries AND Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier
8.5 hours. Completed May 16, 2009 in Philadelphia. Instructor: Dr. Jolie Bookspan1 - Ruth Baez. Congratulations Ms. Baez, the only student in these classes to complete both certifications by course end.
Certified - Swedish Massage
25 hours, March 28 to May 16, 2009. Multiple Instructors
1- Chady Albert Yammine
2- Joseph Antoine Srour
3- Wael Antonios Dagher
4- Pierre Josef Mardini
5- Firas Samir Nassif
6- Mohamad Fayez Allaw
7- Rony Khalil Abi Hayla
Certified - Stretching Smarter and Healthier
12 hours, February 28 and March 7, 2009. Lecturer: George Nakhlé, Physical Therapist
1- Sandra Basbous
2- Chady Albert Yammine
3- Wael Dagher
4- Pierre Mardini
5- Ali Zeitoun
6- Mohammad Baydoun
7- Patrick Bejjani
8- Dima Ajouz
9- Lina Itani
10- Ghada Jaber
11- Roy Ghaleb
13- Joe Srour
14- Reine Antoun
Certified - Electrotherapy, From Theory To Treatment
10 hours, January 24 2009. Lecturer: George Youssef, Physical Therapist
1- Mohammad Karam
2- Maha Marzouk
3- Liliane Chamaa
4- Haydar Haydar
Students took time to send us this wish -
Thank you students!
Applied Learning
Students don't only sit in classrooms, they get up to practice and feel every technique themselves
Dr. Bookspan teaches physician classes. Doctors come from all over the world to learn Academy techniques.
Student Dr. Linder Wingo, M.D. of Florida comments:
"The workshop gave me a vastly improved understanding of mechanics and rarely presented ways of utilizing them for health and problem elimination/control. The overall learning/insight is excellent; the information of immediate clinical therapeutic use. I very highly recommend this course."
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