The 11th IAMMM Academy Conference

We suggest that function in the movement system (motor system, MS) ought to be at the centre of our reflections in MM. Dysbalance and dysfunction in movements may be the cause of complaints and pain. Overestimated in modern branches of medicine, pain of the MS is integrated in so-called pain medicine. The knowledge and experience in MM should oppose such opinion and follow the hypotheses that in the MS, pain is often a result of functional impairment. Colleagues from clinics in MM and rehabilitation as well as colleagues from ambulant praxis and teachers in MM in Germany follow this idea, and put their heads together to analyse the importance of function in movement and poster for MM. We propose a continuum from health to illness, with the degrees of imbalance–functional disorder–functional illness (restricted function), where Abstracts (The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author) Conservative treatment and alternative noninvasive treatment options for acute disc prolapse