In the summer of 2001, the Typaldos core members assembled in Bangor, Maine, USA and took an oath in accordance with Dr. T’s vision to establish FDM with the medical field. After that, however, in 2006, Dr. Typaldos passed away in the midst of carry out his goal. It was just after his 49th birthday.

Subsequently, Dr. Harrer and I, who were qualified instructors at that time, visited Dr.T’s grave and vowed to maintain his will and carry on his life mission to spread FDM all over the world.

On the surface, to some, FDM may look easy to do since it produces amazing results “by only observing body language and applying some pressure to an injury”. Therefore, such a simplified and erroneous understanding of FDM may lead some to practice a superficial version of FDM and what is more, incorporate other osteopathic techniques and create their own version. However, these plagiarized techniques definitely will not produce good results but instead have the possibility to injure patients.The authentic effects of FDM are much more profound than plagiarized ones. So the authentic practice of FDM requires a deep understanding of its theories and the mastery of its techniques.If we allow the plagiarized versions of FDM to spread, then authentic FDM may be driven out of the history of manual medicine. For these reasons, Dr. Typaldos used to dislike leaking information about FDM treatment. Our responsibility as FDM successors is to deeply understand the FDM concept and techniques and to hand down FDM to the next generation while keeping in mind Dr. T’s concerns.

In this congress, I am extremely grateful to be selected as the initial FDMGO president. And I know that we FDMGO members, EFDMA, AFDMA, FAA, RFDMA, AFDMS and all FDM practitioners in the world, will do our best to coorporate in order to spread FDM. I will do my best to teach the FDM techniques that I learned firsthand from our mentor.