F. Mézières		In Europe, Postural Reconstruction is taught in tandem by the INSTITUTE OF POSTURAL RECONSTRUCTION and the LOUIS PASTEUR SCIENCE UNIVERSITY of STRASBOURG where physiotherapists from around the world come to study this new form of physiotherapy. Licensed physiotherapists are granted a specialized university diploma after three years of study. In terms of research and knowledge-sharing, the world of Medicine and patients themselves have benefited enormously, since 1992, from the credibility and the resources generated by this collaboration.
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Françoise MEZIERES, the innovator of Postural Reconstruction, had a strong personality and exceptional charisma. She was very convinced that her method was correct. Even though she went against all accepted ways of functional rehabilitation. Her obscure discourse was comprehensible only to her students. Her writings, , were legible only to a few initiates. From observations of one particular case, she would dare draw conclusions which she applied to the whole human race.

Her method became renowned through word of mouth. Her patients spread the word about her treatment and in best-selling books authors praised this fascinating woman and her revolutionary method.

She died in 1991, leaving behind an anemic and chaotic school and a brilliant body of work unfinished. Faced with the hostility of an entire profession, her students, excellent therapists for the most part, were defenceless. To pass the acid test of Science, these students were merely armed with convictions which sounded like incantations.

M. Nisand		These were the circumstances, in 1991, when Michaël NISAND announced his intention to set up a teaching program which would continue posthumously the work of the master. Surprisingly, this announcement was met with a partnership offer from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg.
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His collaboration gave birth, in May 1992, to the first University course in Postural Reconstruction. With this new name, Françoise MEZIERES’ work was now in a new phase where it could evolve and remain loyal to the original work.
There are three principal players in this new partnership :

• Doctor Michel JESEL, Professor of Functional Rehabilitation at the CHUR (Regional University Hospital Centre).
• Christian CALLENS, Director of the Physiotherapy Training Institute (Institut de Formation en Masso-kinésithérapie) at the CHUR, at Strasbourg.
• Michaël NISAND, Physiotherapist, former assistant to Françoise MEZIERES.

Several professors from the Louis Pasteur University participate in the program bringing to it their knowledge and their language. They also confer upon the program,, a scientific credibility which facilitates controlled experiments in lab settings and the publication of solid scientific research. Papers on perspirationand the H reflex, produced in collaboration with the CNRS (see University Diploma thesis by A. CRISAN), are good examples.