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BY JEFF SEDDON
Therese C. Sawcher
Pfrimmer has the general
appearance of a kindly grah-
dmother whose day is made
when she treats little children
to cookies and milk on the
porch of her Goderich Town-
ship home. ' Despite her
deceiving looks, however, she
is a 67 year old woman with a
. strong will and deterrratl'gn
zo prove a point she has 'been
making for,over a quarter of a
century,
The point she is stressing is.
-...basically that muscle in-
volvement can be blamed for a
great many of the crippling
ailments for which the medical
profession today has few an-
swers. She •believes that
through her research she has
discovered that when muscles
are .involved, strained, unused,
Or irritated, the results are
• what -cans' es such afflications
as poor circulation, bow
Ieggedness, pigeon toes, club
foot, polio, .arthritis, cerebral
palsy and many other similar
ailments that attack the ner-
vous and arterial systems of
the body.
Mrs. ,Pfrimmer's answer to
this muscle involvement is ,a
deep muscle type therapy that
she has developed that she.
terms the Pfrimmer Technique
of Deep Muscle Therapy. She,
casually.' refers to it as
bloodless s-urgery and con-
tinually reminds her patients
that she does not cure them but
allows their bodies to cure
themselves,
She discove -ed her technique
in a °rather *usual manner.•
During the war years she
operated a .laundry., business,
and the army had so drastically
reduced the male working force
that she had to handle most of
the work herself. Constantly
stuffing, heavy bags of laundry
she spent quite a bit of time
climbing ladders boarding
ships in Goderich harbor when
she handled their laundry.
She strained the muscles in
her legs so badly that she
couldn't move her legs at all.
Paralyzed from the waist down
she was told by a doctor she
would never walk again.
"I was told that the muscles
in my legs were dead and that I
would never be able to walk
ag.aii ," she recalled with a
shudder. "I couldn't believe
that the body would carry any
dead tissue 'around and so I
started to manipulate my own
legs." , .
At that time Mrs. Pfrimmer
was already a regi feted
masseuse. She had attended the
College of Swedish Massage in
Chicago and her knowledge of
muscle patterns caused her to
doubt the diagnosis of the
doctor that had termed her
paralyzed for life.
Refusing to give up, Mrs.
Pfrimmer began to treat'
herself and after three months
she was walking on her own.
She did 'not understand what
she had done but .she was so
enthused with her results. she
began an intensive research
into muscle manipulation.
The discovery that led to the
deep muscle therapy came to
Mrs. Pfrimmer when she was
carving a piece of meat. The
beef was tough and fibrous and
aroused the mass'euse's in-
terest.
n-
terest.
"I looked closely at the meat
and found that the fibres were
not straight' but woven around
one another. The involvement
of the fibres caused the. beef to.
be tough and when.I saw that, I
knew I -had found what I was
looking for.'µ
The result of the meat car-
ving was' the beginning of Mrs.
,Pfrimmer's technique, She
knew that :f she could
manipulate these muscle fibres
from outside the body and free
them to work naturally she
could relieve people of many
,,,painful conditions caused by
She knows it works but doctors won't listen
t
wheeIch�ir�
the same muscle involvement.
Thus the discovery of the
technique of deep muscle
• therapy.
Confident she, had to4ched on
a successful type; uI therapy,
Mrs. Pfrimmer s,et out to prove
her point to , the medical
profession. She accepted
several cases that had been
diagnosed in the same manner
she had been ,,'tial `ear's
"Ili". incurable
She professed that if the
tissues doctors had termed
dead had actuallbeen dead
they • would deoi'mpose and
The technique of deep muscle therapy has proven to work on muscles'regardless of what body
houses them. Here .Mrs. Pfrimmer gives G.D. Direct a treatment to allow him to return to
harness racing. The horse was one of five accepted by Mrs. Pfrimnher as a challenge after he
had been scrapped as a harness racer because, as she discovered, he had been allowed to chill
after a workout and his muscles stiffened so that he couldn't walk. The horse, owned by Jim and
Joan Riehl, has won five races and come second four times after just five deep muscle treat-
ments. (staff photo)
masseuse healsherseif
Breast cancer less. scary
By Wilma Oke specialists to determine
Dr, James Wickwire, a, • surgery called for.
Stratford radictl'ogist,+- told -22.1...n. Mrs. Orville Oke,
delegates to the annual fall presided over the- day
'conference of District 2,
Hospital Auxiliaries
Association of Ontario, held in
Stratford Monday . that many
breast cancer patients can be
saved by early detection by
mammography plus regular
physical examination.
Dr, Wickwire was discussing
the mammography machine
purchased three years ago by
the Auxiliary to the Stratford
General Hospital and the
physical 'and social aspects of
cancer.
Chief of staff of the Radiology
Department, .,at the Stratford
General Hospital, Dr, Wickwire
stressed the importance of
regular self examination of the
breasts by, women especially
after the age of 40. He said any
lump, thickening of the skin,
dimpling, change in or
discharge from the nipple
Galled for an immediatecheck-
up with the family doctor.
Dr. Wickwire cautioned
-against 'haste in surgery if
cancer . was detected in a
breast. He spoke of radical
mastectomy, modified radical
mastetectomy, simple
mastectomy and lumpectomy,
both with- or without
radiotherapy, He told of radical
mastectomy operations p 2r -
formed when less drastic
surgery would have been
' adequate. He said careful
assessment was necessary by
the
Seaforth,
•
-long
conference and gave a detailed
report of the district.
She said there were 61,.E 12
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h,'t'ause they weren't, she
hegaur to treat them buck to
their natural state.
She has few case histories on
1 i le The results of her work are
w,►Iktng around and if anyone
Nhes to check her theory out,
she refers them to people she
has already . treated for proof
that the technique works, She
casually admits that of all the
c,►seti She has accepted, none
have been failures when the
patients stuck to their therapy
as Mrs. Pfrimmer instructed
them to.
Despite her success Mrs.
Pfrimmer h`hs had nothing but
closed doors froth the medical
profession. She .carried her
cause to the Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons, to the
"Toronto Hospital for' ,Sick
Children and to other major
hospitals in Ontario and.
Quebec. Alt she has asked is a
chance to prove her technique
worthy. She has yet to get the.
chance.
'She admits that, reputable
doctors and surgeons, set in
their ways, may have some
hesitation .in accepting the
technique but cannot un-
derstand their. apparent refusal
to investigate it.
"I ask them point blank to
give me a'chance to prove the
teChniciue, but they won't even
investigate it. They just turn
away," said Mrs. Pfrimmer.
Part' of the problems in-
curred in having the therapy
'accepted stems from . body
rubdown parlors. Mrs.
Pfrimmer feels that these
parlors that offer massages
from topless masseures have
blackballed. her profession in
the eyes of the public and the
medical profession. But despite
the hurdles the Goderich
Township woman has met, she
has not had her zeal dampened.
"l, don't bear any grudge
towards doctors because of
their hesitancy," said Mrs.
Pfrimmer. "The problems I
have. encountered have only
given me a stronger desire to
prove that deep muscle therapy
is a ' viable alternative to
surgery and that it works,"
Her 29 years of effort and.
research have not been entirely
without success, She has
shared her,. knowledge with
professional masseures who
wish to become deep muscle
therapists and attend her clinic
to learn the process. For the
past few years she has taught
her theory to students and is
now preparing to graduate the
sixth class which will boost the
number of qualified therapists
in North America to 17 ,in-
cluding Mrs. Pfrimmer,
She has no inclination to
become rich with her
knowledge. She hos , a deep
desire to help people and her
biggest t_hrill in life is still
watching someone enjoy the
benefits of her therapy when
they walk out of her clinic after
they had, been carried. in
seyeral months earlier.
The future is not black as
Mrs. Pfrimmer sees it.
Patients are
coming to her
clinic more often now as part of,
a prescription by' doctors that
aren't sure what she does but
are aware of her success.
She is. hopeful that by
teaching her technique to
students it will be carried On in
the future„ and hopefully im-
proved on, Despite what the -
past efforts have, meant to her
in regard to the frustrations of
not being accepted, Mrs,
Pfrimmer is confident that her
technique 'is here to stay and
may some day actually become'
the bloodless surgery she refers
to it as today.
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