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Vision Statement
Donna Bajelis, Founder of ISM

The Institute of Structural Medicine is setting the Sterling Standard of training for all schools of Structural Integration. Structural Medicine is recognized world-wide as the most effective method on preventive and restorative therapy. The Institute of Structural Medicine attracts and trains exceptional people from all walks of life. Structural Medicine Specialists are regarded as true healers. They exude positive radiant energy at the highest level of their being to all their clients and colleagues. They thrive in their profession, transforming the lives of everyone they touch.

Structural medicine is about possibilities; re-creating the possibilities for your body/mind to function well and support you in your life.
- Donna F. Bajelis, PT & CHP, SMS

ISM Mission
Bridge the world of mainstream medicine and alternative therapies; to further an understanding and integration of diverse healthcare professionals by effectively collaborating between "mainstream" or "traditional" medicine and "alternative" therapies. Donna Bajelis's personal motivation rests in the fact that she draws great inspiration from her education and encouragement of healthcare professionals to deepen their knowledge and skills in the field of Structural Medicine.

What is Structural Medicine?

Structural Medicine is a customized evaluation, treatment and collaborative team approach to an individual's unique health issues. Distinctive to the field of structural integration, Structural Medicine directly addresses specific pathologies, painful complaints, and movement dysfunctions. It bridges well-established and proven evaluation tools found in mainstream medicine (strength, range-of-motion, posture) with the latest scientific developments in alternative treatment therapies (manual therapy, myofascial release, movement and neuromuscular re-education, energetics, and dialog).

Unique to Structural Medicine is a sophisticated diagnostic procedure, myofascial length testing (MFLT).

MFLT is essential for treatment of complex interrelated traumas. The objective findings empower the practitioner to formulate a customized plan for treatment of individual pathologies; provide a language to communicate intelligently and objectively with other medical professionals; provide physical measurements, pre- and post-treatment, to monitor or modify the treatment program, as well as enhance progress.

Structural Medicine involves extensive evaluation of postural alignment and movement, in order to balance the myofascial tone, length, and strength across all the major joints of the body. Through myofascial reorganization, the Structural Medicine process moves the body closer to a more efficient organization and function in gravity (the individual's structural and functional "blueprint").

Through verbal dialog and movement re-education, Structural Medicine helps uncover attitudes and unconscious beliefs that contribute to or limit postural integrity and efficient movement dynamics. By means of an integrative process of postural evaluation, MFLT, manual therapy, dialogue, movement and neuromuscular re-education, a newfound empowered awareness develops to re-shape posture, movement patterns, and sense of self. This often results in the alleviation or reduction of pain associated with pathology.

	Copyright FCSM/ISM 2006 Structural Medicine Specialist (SMS) practitioners are graduates of a minimum 2,000-hour training program at the Institute of Structural Medicine