Mezieres Method Basic and Advanced Modules

Many segmental approaches focus on the symptom.
But when pain returns—or shifts—it often signals a deeper dysfunction.

The Mézières Method offers a systemic biomechanical framework to interpret the human body as an interconnected whole, where every adaptation follows specific laws.

This therapeutic discipline is grounded in musculoskeletal biomechanics and vector-based physics.
Rather than simply correcting local misalignments or stiffness, it analyzes the overall balance of muscular and joint forces.

It’s not just a postural technique.
It’s an advanced clinical model that helps identify shortened muscular vectors responsible for compressions, joint misalignments, and distant symptoms.

Identifying the root cause means restoring balance, function, and adaptability.

“The body is not something to be corrected.
It’s something to be listened to, freed, and reorganized.”

📚 What You’ll Gain with the AIFiMM Mézières Course
✔ 100 ECM (Continuing Medical Education) credits recognized
✔ A new clinical reasoning model
✔ Active participation: you treat and are treated
✔ Free access to the online course after completing the in-person training
✔ All materials included, including two essential textbooks
✔ Free reattendance of any module in future editions

📍 14 days – 112 hours of training – Direct clinical supervision
🎥 Learn in the classroom and keep the content with lifetime access to the included online course

A scientific model — and a different way of observing the human body

Before showing you what happens during a treatment session, we want to introduce the core foundations of the Mézières Method:
a rigorous theoretical framework that brings together biomechanics, physics, and systemic models.

The Mézières Method integrates three fundamental pillars:

• Musculoskeletal biomechanics applied to functional chains
• Linear physics: vector forces, joint levers, and balance relationships
• Systemic models: adaptive interactions between muscles, joints, and body segments

ℹ️ You don’t need to know these concepts in advance.
During the course, we’ll guide you step by step through the understanding of systemic biomechanics, even if you’re starting from scratch.
Every principle is explained, demonstrated in class, and applied to real clinical cases.

Unlike analytical or localized approaches, the Mézières Method sees the body as an interdependent system:
every local dysfunction results from global compensations that have developed over time.

The muscular system is understood as a complex functional unit, able to reorganize based on internal and external forces — but also prone to compromises that, if unrecognized, may lead to pain, stiffness, asymmetries, and recurrence.

What makes this method truly scientific is not only its biomechanical coherence,
but its ability to read the body through the lens of systemic logic.

In the next sections, we’ll explore the physical principles and adaptive dynamics that make this model so effective in clinical practice.

Resisting Force – Working Force = Dysfunction

RF (Resisting Force):
The sum of all forces that hinder movement or physiological upright posture:
• muscular shortenings
• myofascial retractions
• joint misalignments
• vertebral compressions

WF (Working Force):
The functional force that allows the body to act:
• to move
• to maintain balance
• to manage loads
• to adapt to stimuli

When Resisting Force exceeds Working Force, the body enters a state of compensation:
• secondary muscle chains are activated
• altered movement patterns emerge
• stiffness and recurring pain appear

🎯 The Mézières treatment aims to reduce Resisting Force through isometric work in maximal elongation, restoring biomechanical efficiency and systemic adaptability.

🧠 Origin of Dysfunction: Two Clinical Scenarios

To identify the primary cause, the Mézières Method distinguishes between two key scenarios:

🔹 Scenario 1 – Shortened Muscles → Skeleton Adapts
📌 In the absence of major skeletal deformations (congenital or traumatic)
👉 Myofascial shortening reshapes the skeleton
→ leading to misalignments, compressions, and dysfunctions

✅ The skeleton is the effect of muscular retractions

🔸 Scenario 2 – Deformed Skeleton → Muscles Adapt
📌 In the presence of significant skeletal deformations
👉 The muscular system adapts to the altered structure
→ generating new dysfunctions at a distance

✅ The muscles are victims of compensatory adaptation

📌 This logic explains why the cause is never where the symptom appears,
and why every compensation requires a systemic reading to be truly resolved.

“Every body tells this equation:
where you see pain, there was always a force that came before it.”

🔬 The Mézières treatment is a direct consequence of these equations.
It doesn’t target the symptom alone — it addresses the dysfunctional biomechanical force behind it.

📦 What This Model Gives You
• A systemic biomechanical framework to interpret dysfunctions beyond the symptom
• A measurable relationship between resisting force and working force
• Two clear clinical scenarios to differentiate muscular vs skeletal origin
• A practical tool to guide treatment through physical logic and adaptive reasoning
• A principle that helps you recognize compensations, identify their cause, and act on the primary vector

🖼️ Summary Diagram
A visual synthesis of the Mézières biomechanical model

We’ve seen how musculoskeletal dysfunctions can be interpreted through:
• the balance between Resisting Force and Working Force
• the distinction between muscular and skeletal origins

👇 Below you’ll find a diagram that summarizes the two core equations of the Mézières Method:
a simple yet powerful tool to guide both clinical observation and treatment.

📌 You’ll find it in the printed materials, during in-person lessons, and inside the online course.

A logical framework to interpret dysfunctions systemically

The Mézières model is not based on protocols.
It’s based on three core biomechanical principles that help you analyze any dysfunction as an expression of an interconnected system.

1️⃣ The Muscle as a Force Vector
Every muscle acts as a vector: it has a preferred direction along which it applies force.
When shortened, it tends to pull the joint toward its axis, altering its spatial orientation.

The more powerful or retracted the muscle, the greater the compressive force it exerts along that vector.

2️⃣ Loss of the Physiological Articular Sequence
Muscular shortening forces the skeleton to reorganize in a compensatory way.
This leads to a loss of the natural sequence between skeletal segments, with visible structural consequences:
• misalignments
• organized stiffness
• altered motor patterns

3️⃣ The Body as a Complex System
The human body doesn’t behave in a linear way.
It’s an adaptive system constantly seeking balance: when one area is under stress, others activate to compensate.
These strategies, though initially functional, become dysfunctional if the primary cause is not addressed.

📌 During the course, you’ll analyze multiple clinical examples to help you identify these three pillars in real patients — and understand their dynamic interaction.

📦 How the Three Mézières Pillars Support Clinical Practice
• Muscle as Vector
→ Helps you observe how a muscular retraction alters joint alignment along a specific direction.

• Physiological Articular Sequence
→ Allows you to detect where and when the skeleton has reorganized in a compensatory manner.

• Complex System
→ Guides you in identifying distant adaptations caused by a primary dysfunction.

📌 These three pillars allow you to interpret the body systemically,
moving beyond segmental logic and targeting the true source of dysfunction.

🛠️ Treatment Goals
How the Mézières Method works: treating the cause, not just the symptom

The Mézières Method does not simply act on external shape or joint mobility.
It targets the forces that disorganize the skeletal structure, to restore the functionality of the system.

The goal of treatment is to:
• Reduce the Resisting Force (RF) — the set of internal forces driving the body into compensation
• Restore the Working Force (WF) — the muscular system’s ability to function without stiffness, asymmetry, or compensations

📌 What does this mean in practice?
This approach guides you in identifying the primary cause, even when the symptom appears elsewhere.
Each session is designed to detect and reprogram the dysfunctional muscular vectors using isometric contractions in maximal elongation.

🔍 Clinical Example: Persistent Knee Pain
Clinical question: Is this a local dysfunction or a referred one?

➤ Local Hypothesis
If the cause is within the knee, you may observe:
• a visible axial deviation
• abnormal joint contact (e.g., femoro-patellar or tibiofemoral compression)
• local muscular vector imbalance

➤ Referred Hypothesis (more frequent in chronic cases)
If the pain results from distant adaptations, you may find:
• lumbar retractions (e.g., psoas, quadratus lumborum)
• segmental innervation patterns (e.g., L3–L4 for the knees)
• treating the lumbar region often reduces pain, without directly addressing the knee

➤ Upstream Origin (beyond the lumbar area)
• cervical instability with descending effects
• visceral dysfunctions (e.g., colon, urogenital system)
• complex systemic alterations with multiple compensatory patterns

✅ Clinical Conclusion
In the Mézières model, resolution doesn’t come from treating the symptom,
but from identifying and correcting the primary muscular vector that generated the misalignment.

The approach is systemic, logical, and clinically verifiable.

🔬 The treatment uses isometric contractions in maximal elongation to:
• relieve Resisting Force (RF)
• reactivate Working Force (WF)
• restore the overall biomechanical efficiency of the system

📦 What You’ll Learn to Do with This Treatment Logic
• Recognize when pain is merely a distant compensation
• Distinguish local vs referred dysfunctions, even without obvious signs
• Identify the primary muscular vector disorganizing the articular sequence
• Build a treatment that acts on the biomechanical cause, not the symptomatic area
• Use isometric contractions in maximal elongation to restore systemic balance

📌 It’s a shift in perspective:
you’ll learn to treat the entire system, not just the area of pain.

The clinical work focuses on:

• Identifying primary shortened muscular vectors

• Differentiating between primary and secondary shortening (e.g. of visceral, occlusal, or skeletal origin)

• Restoring articular and morphological balance

• Releasing substituted muscles blocked by chronic compensations

The method uses isometric contractions in maximal physiological or relative elongation, guided by diaphragmatic breathing and proprioceptive control.

The body as a complex, adaptive, and transformable system

The human body is not a rigid machine — it’s a complex system.
It constantly adapts to stimuli, stressors, and imbalances,
reorganizing itself in nonlinear, multifactorial, and interdependent ways.

📌 Every dysfunction creates a new configuration
When a force conflicts with the body’s physiology
(e.g., muscular shortening, deformation, overload, emotional stress),
the system doesn’t break — it reorganizes to compensate.

This reorganization leads to:
• a new joint geometry
• a different distribution of muscular tensions
• symptoms appearing at a distance, functional compromises, and chronic patterns

🔬 The Mézières Method operates precisely in this zone of instability:
at the edge between fragile balance and irreversible disorganization.
Here, the body still has the potential to transform, but has already activated a cascade of compensations that must be:
• recognized,
• understood,
• reorganized.

📌 This is the true therapeutic zone:
where clinical observation and biomechanical intervention can still restore the system.

👉 A Mézières session starts here:
by observing the adaptive reorganization and targeting the dominant vector,
to bring the body back to a new functional equilibrium.

📦 How to Recognize the “Edge of Chaos” Therapeutic Zone
• The symptom cannot be explained by any visible lesion or structural alteration
• Pain shifts location, moves around, or returns after local treatments
• There are asymmetries, stiffness, and compensations that don’t align with the symptomatic area
• The joint structure shows adaptive strategies at a distance
• The patient reports inconsistent responses to conventional therapies

📌 In these cases, the body has already activated a complex reorganization:
this is the right moment to intervene on the dominant muscular vector,
before the adaptation becomes chronic.

The Mézières session as a systemic intervention guided by dominant forces

Once the shortened muscular vector that disrupts joint balance has been identified, treatment can begin.

The session is not based on a fixed protocol, but on a clinical process that integrates observation, functional diagnosis, and biomechanical intervention.

📌 The Mézières session unfolds in three operative phases:

1. Analysis of Adaptive Reorganization
• 3D observation of the body
• Identification of active compensations and stressed areas
• Dynamic and morphological assessment

2. Identification of the Dominant Vector
• Detection of shortened muscles acting on the skeletal system
• Evaluation of vector direction and its joint effect

3. Isometric Treatment in Maximal Elongation
• Active elongation of retracted muscle chains
• Guided, slow, sustained contractions
• Reprogramming of forces to restore systemic balance

📌 Each phase follows a biomechanical logic:
you don’t correct the form — you modify the forces that shape it.

📦 What Happens During a Mézières Session
• The body is observed as a whole — both in static and dynamic conditions
• The therapist identifies the dysfunctional muscular vectors disrupting joint alignment
• A posture is chosen to highlight the dominant retractions
• The patient performs guided isometric contractions in maximal physiological elongation
• Compensations are read, followed, and deactivated — not blocked
• The body is gently guided toward a more efficient configuration

🎯 This is a treatment that doesn’t impose an external form —
it helps the body restructure itself from within.

A model to reason. A method to feel.

The Mézières Method doesn’t teach you to correct a shape —
it teaches you to read dysfunction as the body’s own language.
Every muscular shortening is a vector force that reshapes the body’s geometry.
Every compensation tells a survival strategy — often necessary, but no longer functional.

The body doesn’t lie.
It must be listened to, understood, reorganized.

✅ What the Mézières Method Offers You
• It teaches you to read the body as an interdependent system
• It helps you identify shortened muscular vectors that disrupt skeletal organization
• It gives you a clear biomechanical key:
 Resisting Force – Working Force = Dysfunction
• It enables you to act on the primary cause, not just the symptom
• It provides tools to integrate linear logic and nonlinear observation, even in complex cases

📌 In the course, you’ll experience all of this firsthand —
by treating, observing, and applying the method to your own body and that of your colleagues.

🎯 It’s a transformation of your clinical approach.
And when you bring it into your practice, your patients will notice the difference.

An immersive journey to transform how you observe, reason, and treat

The AIFiMM course doesn’t just teach you a technique.
It guides you through a shift in clinical perspective, grounded in systemic muscular biomechanics and the analysis of dysfunctional forces.

It is designed for healthcare professionals who want to:

• deepen their understanding of the biomechanical basis of musculoskeletal dysfunctions
• learn a systemic model of clinical reasoning
• gain practical tools for treating complex patients
• integrate their existing knowledge into a coherent and verifiable framework

📌 What You’ll Experience During the Course

• A structured program of 14 days, divided into 4 intensive seminars
• Active participation: you treat your colleagues and are treated in return
• Every phase of treatment is observed, performed, discussed, and internalized
• You’ll be guided step by step by expert instructors, in a stimulating and professional environment

🎯 You won’t just apply techniques:
you’ll start reasoning with systemic logic, seeing the body with new eyes,
and distinguishing compensations from causes — so you can act where it truly matters.

📌 As you continue down the page, you’ll find:
• an overview of our experiential learning approach
• included course materials
• the AIFiMM faculty
• clinical applications of the method
• course dates, fees, and how to register

You learn by observing, experiment by treating, and internalize by experiencing

This course doesn’t just explain — every technique is demonstrated, performed, and analyzed
in full coherence with the biomechanical principles of the method.

During each seminar:

• The instructor performs sample sessions on a participant, explaining each step
• All participants observe, discuss, and ask clinical and technical questions
• Each participant treats a colleague and is treated in return — to feel the effects of the forces within their own body

📌 You learn to observe the body systemically,
while directly experiencing what happens under your hands and within your tissues.

It’s a deep, three-dimensional learning process:
you don’t just understand the method — you live it.

📽️ At the end of the course, you’ll receive free access to the Mézières online course,
allowing you to review every technique, explanation, and clinical sequence with clarity.
A valuable resource, professionally filmed in the classroom, so you can revisit the material anytime you need.

A complete toolkit to support you during and after the course

Each participant receives a carefully curated educational set,
designed to support in-class learning and continue your study after the course.

📚 Scientific Materials
• “Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and the Mézières Method” — by Mauro Lastrico
 A unique volume integrating systemic biomechanical analysis within the Mézières framework.
 Clear, in-depth, clinically and practically oriented.

• Official Italian translation of “Originalité de la Méthode Mézières” — by Françoise Mézières
 The historical text that laid the theoretical foundation of the method.
 Essential to understand its origins and the thinking of its founder.

✍️ Practical and Symbolic Tools
• Custom AIFiMM tote bag
• Notepad and pen for sketches, observations, and clinical notes
• Your tangible diary of the classroom experience

📌 A toolkit that blends scientific rigor and personal memory:
it supports you today in the classroom — and tomorrow in your clinical practice.

An opportunity to revisit, consolidate, and grow over time

Every participant has the right to retake any completed module free of charge in future editions, subject to availability.

This is a valuable chance to:

• revisit techniques and content with new clinical awareness
• engage with different clinical cases and new colleagues
• consolidate your learning and connect theory, observation, and practice
• make up for any missed days by attending them in a future edition

📌 A method isn’t exhausted in a single course.
It’s something you live, revisit, and deepen over time.

Two clinical perspectives, one shared vision

The AIFiMM teaching team is composed of physiotherapists with extensive clinical, educational, and systemic experience.
Both were trained directly by Françoise Mézières, but their contribution goes far beyond simply transmitting the method:
they guide you through a concrete transformation of your clinical approach.

Each module is led by one of the two instructors, who will support you step by step through:
• direct supervision
• personalized observations
• real clinical examples
• support in developing systemic clinical reasoning

📌 They don’t just pass on fixed knowledge —
they help you develop your own clinical vision, based on biomechanical logic and complex observation of the body.

🎙️ Two Complementary Voices

🧠 “After graduating, I was familiar with segmental and symptom-focused techniques,
but I couldn’t explain many of the recurrences and compensations I saw in my patients.
Meeting Françoise Mézières transformed my clinical approach.
I began to see the body as a vector-based, interdependent system, governed by physical laws.
Today, I consider the Method a refined tool: demanding, but capable of delivering deep and lasting results.”
— Mauro Lastrico

👁‍🗨 “Mézières didn’t offer protocols — she offered a perspective.
She taught me to recognize the adaptive strategies of the system,
to read morphology as an expression of dominant forces,
and to intervene not to correct, but to liberate.
I discovered that touch, mental imagery, and perceptive language
are essential tools for systemic transformation.”
— Laura Manni

👤 Professional Profiles

Mauro Lastrico
Physiotherapist, instructor, and author.
For over 25 years, he has taught in the field of rehabilitation.
He has integrated the Mézières Method with vector biomechanics and complex systems physics.
He is the author of “Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and the Mézières Method.”

Laura Manni
Physiotherapist and AIFiMM instructor.
She applies the Mézières Method in both clinical practice and education,
with a special focus on spinal pathologies and systemic dysfunctions.

📌 Each instructor will guide you with precision, care, and a spirit of inquiry,
offering you tools to develop a systemic therapeutic mindset you can apply in everyday clinical practice.

Complex dysfunctions require a systemic model

The Mézières Method is recommended in all situations where the body has lost its physiological organization
and activated compensatory strategies that are no longer functional.

It is not applied to a single region,
but to a systemic dysfunctional logic that may involve multiple joints, levels, and body systems.

📌 When the Mézières Method Is Especially Useful
• When symptoms return after localized treatments
• When pain shifts over time or appears in different areas
• When stiffness, asymmetries, or morphological adaptations are present
• When segmental therapies provide only partial or temporary relief
• When you suspect the cause is far from the symptom

🎯 Main Areas of Application

• Chronic spinal conditions
low back pain, thoracic pain, recurrent neck pain, discopathies, instability, etc.

• Scoliosis and structural asymmetries
with a differential approach based on age and vertebral rotation-translation relationships

• Lower limb dysfunctions
groin pain, knee pain, plantar fasciitis, stubborn tendinopathies, etc.

• Upper limb disorders
shoulder pain, scapulohumeral dysfunctions, recurrent epicondylitis, etc.

• Post-traumatic changes
functional outcomes of trauma, fractures, or orthopedic surgery

• Systemic disorders
multiple dysfunctions from overload or complex chronic adaptations

🔗 A Method That Integrates with Your Practice
The Mézières Method doesn’t require you to abandon the techniques you already use.
It provides you with a logical structure, a systemic lens, and a concrete clinical tool
to treat those cases where segmental models are no longer enough.

A method with historical roots and solid rational foundations

The Mézières Method was born in 1947, from a revolutionary insight by Françoise Mézières,
who was the first to observe that the muscular system behaves as an interdependent unit,
and that the origin of dysfunctions lies in myofascial shortenings, not in posture itself.

Since then, the method has been further developed, rationalized, and refined
into an interpretive model based on:

• musculoskeletal biomechanics
• vector-based physics
• complex systems logic
• functional clinical observation

🔎 In this section you can explore:

1. 🦵 Scoliosis and Treatment According to Mézières
   A clinical reflection on managing scoliosis, balancing muscular forces and three-dimensional logic.
   👉 Read the article

2. 🔬 Biomechanics and Complex Systems in Postural Reasoning
   How thinking of the body as an interconnected system improves therapeutic effectiveness.
   👉 Read the article

3. 🧠 Françoise Mézières’ Insights: A Synthesis of Her Writings
   A journey through the original thoughts of the method’s founder, still highly relevant.
   👉 Read the article

📖 👉 See all published articles

An intensive, structured, and certified training

The course lasts 14 days (112 hours) and is divided into 4 seminars.
Each module offers a hands-on experience, where you’ll observe, treat, be treated,
and receive direct clinical supervision from the instructor.

The program is accredited by the Italian Ministry of Health and grants 100 ECM (Continuing Medical Education) credits.

📌 Summary
⏱ Duration: 112 hours (14 days)
📆 Structure:
• 1st and 3rd seminar: Thursday to Sunday
• 2nd and 4th seminar: Friday to Sunday

🎓 ECM Credits: 100 recognized ECM credits
🧾 Fee: €1,400 (VAT-exempt – official ECM provider)
💳 Installments: Available in 2 or 4 payments

✅ Included in the fee:
• Free access to the Mézières online course (FAD)
• Two essential textbooks (Lastrico + Mézières)
• AIFiMM tote bag, pen, and notepad
• Individual hands-on treatment during the sessions
• In-class clinical supervision
• Free reattendance of any completed module in future editions

Everything you need to know to join the course

📍 Available Locations
The course is held in various Italian cities, in venues that are easy to reach and fully equipped
for hands-on practice and small group work.

🗓️ Updated Schedule
All course dates, active locations, seminar structure, and any deadlines for early registration fees
are listed on the Course Calendar page.

📝 Online Registration
You can register directly on the AIFiMM website.
Once you submit your request, you’ll receive an email with all the instructions to complete your registration,
select your payment method, and confirm your participation.

A course for those who want to observe, reason, and treat differently

The course is reserved for healthcare professionals and final-year students who wish to integrate into their practice a systemic biomechanical model, grounded in science and clinically oriented.

👤 Eligible participants:

• Physiotherapists (graduates or third-year students)

• Physicians (all specialties)

• Osteopaths

• Massophysiotherapists (as recognized under current Italian regulations)

• Occupational Therapists (OT)

• Developmental Neuro- and Psychomotor Therapists (TNPEE)

🧭 It’s for you if you:

• want to move beyond a symptomatic, segmental approach

• treat patients with complex, chronic, or recurrent dysfunctions

• are looking for a clinical reasoning model that combines biomechanical logic with systemic observation

• want practical tools to increase the effectiveness of your treatment

📌 No prior knowledge of the Mézières Method is required.
The course starts from the fundamentals and gradually guides you through both theory and practice.

You enter the classroom to learn.
You leave with a new way of seeing.

📌 At the end of the course, you will receive:

• the official Mézières Method training certificate issued by AIFiMM

• the ECM certificate for the credits earned

• registration in the National Mézières Practitioners Register (private, for educational purposes), available online

🤝 You’ll become part of a network of professionals who share a common clinical vision:
a systemic approach based on biomechanics, logical coherence, and hands-on experience.

You’ll have the opportunity to connect with other participants, continue your training, attend new modules or repeat previous ones —
and most importantly, integrate the Method into your daily practice, achieving tangible and lasting results.

🗣️ Here’s what some participants have said:

“After the course, I began to see my patients in a completely different light.
I used to try to correct; now I try to understand.
Treatment has become more targeted, and results are more stable.”
— Francesca R., physiotherapist

“It gave me direction. I feel more confident in my therapeutic choices, more consistent in my clinical reasoning, and more effective in my outcomes.”
— Marco D., osteopath

“As a physiatrist, I’ve found the Mézières Method to be a valuable tool for systemic functional assessment.
It helped me refine my clinical observation and identify dysfunctional muscular vectors that are often missed by segmental analysis.
Today, I can give more precise and targeted guidance to the physiotherapists on my team, optimizing the entire rehabilitation process.”
— Dr. Alessandro V., physiatrist

📌 Do I need prior experience with the Mézières Method to enroll?
No. The course starts from the basics. It’s designed to guide you step by step through both the theoretical understanding and practical application of the method — even if you’ve never studied it before.

📚 Can I start studying before the course begins?
Access to the Mézières online course (FAD) is granted after the in-person training is completed.
This allows you to review and deepen every concept independently.
The lessons include theoretical explanations and real clinical demonstrations — a valuable resource for consolidating your learning.

🔁 Can I retake the course in the future?
Yes. Every participant is entitled to retake any completed module free of charge, subject to availability.
You may also make up for any missed days by attending them in a different edition of the course.

📘 Will I receive learning materials during the course?
Yes. Each participant receives:
• the textbook “Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and the Mézières Method” by Mauro Lastrico
• the Italian translation of “Originalité de la Méthode Mézières” by Françoise Mézières
• a tote bag with AIFiMM-branded notepad and pen
• free access to the Mézières online course at the end of the classroom training

📍 How do I know if the course will run in my city?
Courses are confirmed once the minimum number of participants is reached.
The most frequent locations are Bologna, Milan, Naples, and Rome, where the training is well-established.
We recommend registering early to help activate your preferred location and benefit from early booking discounts.

🎓 Can I enroll if I’m a final-year student?
Yes. If you are in your third year of Physiotherapy (or another eligible healthcare program), you can enroll.
Your registration will be finalized upon obtaining your degree.

💳 Can I pay in multiple installments?
Absolutely. Payment can be split into 2 or 4 interest-free installments.
In some cases, discounts are available for early booking, group registrations, or special agreements.

The Mézières Method is not yet available in every Italian city.
If you're a motivated physiotherapist and know colleagues who are interested, you can become a local AIFiMM course coordinator and help activate a new edition in your area.

📌 How it works:

• With at least 15 confirmed participants, AIFiMM will activate the course in your proposed city

• As the local coordinator, you will attend the entire course for free

🤝 This is not just about organizing a course — it’s about promoting scientific and cultural dissemination.
Bringing the Mézières Method to your area means contributing to the spread of a therapeutic model based on rigor, observation, and systemic biomechanics.

👉 Write to us for more information and to explore the feasibility together.

📧 info@aifimm.it

AIFiMM offers a distance learning (FAD) version of the Mézières Method course, which faithfully reproduces the full in-person training — including both theoretical content and practical demonstrations.

🎥 The course was filmed by a professional film crew to provide an immersive experience: participants feel as if they were actually attending the in-person course alongside the group.

📚 The content includes:

• All theoretical lectures on systemic musculoskeletal biomechanics

• Clinical demonstrations and guided postural corrections

• Detailed analysis of shortened muscular vectors, substitution patterns, and therapeutic strategies using isometric elongation

👨‍🏫 The course is supported by AIFiMM instructors, who are available to answer questions and provide clarification throughout the learning process.

💻 Designed for professionals who want to train rigorously but with greater flexibility, the FAD course allows you to study anywhere, at your own pace — without compromising on quality.

Learn more:
🔗 Mézières Method FAD Course – AIFiMM