Body Stress Release

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How Did BSR Evolve

South Africans Ewald and Gail Meggersee developed Body Stress Release in response to Ewald’s crippling chronic pain condition. Having fallen out of a tree at the age of five and lain unconscious for an entire week, he then suffered from continuous shooting pain and cramping in the lower legs and back that doctors could not diagnose or cure.

At the age of thirty, he would frequently wake up screaming from the cramp in his calf muscles, or find he was paralyzed from the waist down. His greatest fear was that one morning, he would find the paralysis to be permanent.

Eventually, Ewald was facing both the loss of his employment as an industrial chemist and spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Feeling he had nothing to lose, he and Gail packed up their lives and travelled to the United States to train as chiropractors, as he had received some relief from chiropractic treatment in the past.

They were hoping to discover something others had missed, and thereby identify the source of Ewald’s pain and reverse his ongoing deterioration.

In the United States they were fortunate to encounter Dr Richard van Rumpt, a retired chiropractor who had researched an alternative technique to chiropractic manipulation. Dr Van Rumpt believed that the body could tell us itself what was the matter with it and that we should learn to listen to the body. This information, or biofeedback, could then help the body to heal itself.

Gail and Ewald returned to South Africa, and built on this method of using the bio-feedback response of the body, to determine areas where muscular tension was located and developed what is now known as Body Stress Release, or BSR.

When they began their practice in Cape Town in the 1980’s, word-of-mouth spread the message that this modality was often effective in cases where other, more traditional avenues had failed, and literally thousands of people came to see them.

Ewald himself is the best possible advertisement for his discovery. Pain-free for the first time since he was five years old, he describes himself as ‘as fit as a teenager’. His body continues to improve and he now has sensation in the skin on his feet and ankles for the first time in years.

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WHAT HAPPENS DURING A BSR SESSION | WHAT WILL BSR DO FOR ME | ABOUT BSR | HOW DID BSR EVOLVE
CASE HISTORIES | DAVIE & MARIEL'S CONNECTION TO BSR | BSR IN THE MEDIA | LOCATE A BSR PRACTITIONER