Using the Trager® approach to reduce the impact of foot drop: Case report

This case report illustrates how a person with a complex series of injuries and surgeries can regain a capacity of hope and healing utilizing the Trager® Approach. The client presents with a Foot Drop on the right side, severe chronic pain and hopelessness, and a desire and willingness to feel better. He survived a forty-foot fall from a tree, twenty years ago, and has lived with extensive repair to his spine. He has been living with pain from the limited mobility of spinal rods, vertebral fusions, and more recent hip replacements. Now, in an aging body, he seeks alternative care after being told, he "will just have to live with his pain". After a series of sessions by a Senior Trager Practitioner, his mobility, functional status and sleep have improved; and his pain has decreased significantly.