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Personal Information –History

Noel Frayne first got interested in manual therapy as a hobby in 1977 in Manitoba. He suffered from migraines (undiagnosed at the time) and headaches as a teen, and had a mother who was a migraine sufferer. He worked on people with headaches, and invariably provided relief by loosening the muscles in the back of the neck on the right. It didn’t last, but it was relief, new to many of the people treated.

Noel graduated from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Vancouver, B.C. in Spring, 1987. He continued on his quest for something that worked while at the college. Several more pieces fell into place, particularly during the second year, but the concept of a connection continued to elude him. He still saw these as concidental consistencies. The time in training was useful in that it provided the groundwork to move forward.

He was further spurred by a classroom incident where he was asked to stand in front of the class of 60+ mainly female classmates in his underwear. The instructor wanted to point out his ability to stand upright in spite of his own personal asymmetries. He identified them but provided no information on correcting them.

He became more aware of the prevalence of the so far disconnected fragments of what would eventually become a connected pattern as his practice got off the ground in Victoria in August 1987 and started growing.

Noel’s aspirations toward formalized post-graduate education began lessening around 1989-1990, for several reasons: The first was a growing suspicion that this just may be something big, something new, even with this in its embryonic stages of development. The second was an increasing disillusionment with educational opportunities offered during that period, directed at least in his perception more toward short-term palliative alleviation of specific isolated effects rather than toward their initiating and perpetuating causes. They seemed geared more to "pumping air into leaking tires" than to locating and repairing "leaks." There were (and are) a lot of different pumps out there, pumping in air to slow the leak, but they were (and still are) only pumps.

The driving force throughout has been to find something that works, something to replace all of the temporary bandaids out there, to replace the hollow promises, the dangling carrots, forever just out of reach.

Empirical and anecdotal evidence were powerful incentives for him as the early seeds of this approach took root and began to flourish. His patients were getting better, getting better faster and staying better longer. They were losing their migraines and headaches. Noel began documenting findings, numbers of treatments to completion, etc., and taking a more formalized approach as an indirect result of a fall he had in August of 1995, which left him in considerable pain and unable to return to his practice for almost three months. In retrospect, the accident was providential and perhaps in a sense not an accident, as it supplied the impetus for the steps taken since to arrive at this stage.

He began providing Victoria area physicians with information around this time, through patient progress reports and periodic mailouts.

With this approach, his primary barometer in determining the extent to which progress is being made is the subjective reports from patients as to their levels of pain frequency, intensity and duration, corroborated by palpable and visual physical changes.

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