About Michaela Liedler

Life has repeatedly confronted me with scars, enriched the path to them with insights, and allowed me to experience the experiences that enabled me to uncover blind spots – and ultimately led to the creation of the Liedler concept.

At the age of 18, I tore part of my gluteal muscle in a riding accident. After that, the dynamics of the entire right leg axis gradually began to change. Four years later, I had developed severe pain in my right foot. A scar treatment by a befriended masseuse had an unexpected effect. After the second or third treatment, I got a very intense muscle ache in my right leg, the right leg axis began to correct itself again, and after a few weeks my foot was pain-free again. I was incredibly surprised that scars – so far away from their actual location – could have such effects and that these were so quickly reversible despite existing for several years.

Because of this experience, I focused more on the topic of scars in my practice, provided that they appeared in the assessment and initial consultation. The perception, understanding and treatment of these scars and adhesions repeatedly brought unexpected improvements on various levels – locally and elsewhere in the body – and exciting successes.

My thoughts on this should deepen further. In 2013, I had an unexpected emergency C-section. After the period of rest that was adhered to and recommended by the doctors, I developed for the first time in my life these certain piercing, sharp back pains, the description of which I knew so well from patients in the practice. I could no longer sleep on my stomach, let alone pull my right leg up in a prone position, as it caused me pain in my hip and groin. In addition, my bladder volume had drastically decreased. Neck pain, shoulder tension and headaches were other side effects. The assumption that these pain conditions were triggered by carrying my newborn or toddler – given the fact that I had already experienced quite strenuous physical activities with my body without the occurrence of pain – made no sense to me.

In addition, I had a feeling of tightness exactly where the C-section scar was, which felt like knots deep in my abdomen – tension lines that were not present before the C-section and that prevented me from straightening up and restricted my breathing.
I began to treat my scar with all the techniques I had learned in the course of my training in physiotherapy and osteopathy. The result was not satisfactory. Superficially, the scar became more beautiful, but the feeling deep in the abdomen and the discomfort did not improve.

In addition, about a year after the C-section, the menstrual pain was now accompanied by burning and stabbing pains throughout the incision of the scar.

I began to try out new gripping techniques and test out via tension, pressure, traction and shear forces in different directions – transversely and longitudinally to the scar – which grip, which intensity and which depth of the tissue layers it needed to get to where I suspected and felt the cause of my complaints. These concrete, deeper grips were sometimes very painful. But: Lo and behold, the first real improvements and changes occurred!

As I slowly worked my way through the scar into the depth of the associated adhesions and peritoneal adhesions, my back gradually began to relax, the pain in the groin, hip and during menstruation as well as the tension in the shoulder and neck area subsided – and the behavior of my bladder normalized again.
Thus, all the initially described complaints and symptoms, which from the outside could have had completely different causes, were resolved solely by the continuous treatment of the scar and the deep peritoneal adhesions and adhesions.

My conclusion was that with scars, it was above all about the right gripping techniques and reaching the appropriate tissue sliding layer in the depth of the abdominal cavity – whether the techniques were successful and the scar changed sustainably. Direct techniques via traction, combined with the use of shear forces, as well as concrete manual mobilizations of adhered tissue structures with the inclusion of the surrounding joints in the treatment process allowed the body to breathe a sigh of relief.

I now began to implement my own experience in practice and expand the techniques. Over time, further variations of these techniques emerged, which I gradually associated with occurring accompanying symptoms and adapted accordingly. I found that the success I had achieved with myself also occurred with other patients – that by focusing on the deep sliding layers and peritoneal adhesions and their treatment, similar improvements were felt very quickly, accompanied by a feeling of relief throughout the body. Even unpleasant or chronic, painful body patterns that had been classified as untreatable for years and with which the patients had resigned themselves began to change again.

Last but not least, it should be said: It takes a lot of courage – both from the patients and the therapists – to encounter scars and peritoneal adhesions and really understand them.
Fingertip feeling and mindfulness are just as indispensable as good cooperation and communication during the treatment. This is the only way to work successfully with the Liedler concept – to dissolve scars and adhesions and integrate them harmoniously back into the body.

It stores all the experiences we make – always also as an opportunity to eventually let the good as well as the difficult become part of the whole again.

Look. Perceive. Understand. Accept. Dissolve and integrate. Feel good.

Michaela Liedler MSc D.O.