A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPINAL TOUCH

Spinal Touch has its origins with two Chiropractors called John Hurley and Helen Sanders. He was a structural engineer who had become fascinated with the idea of applying his knowledge of structural stresses to the human body. To further this aim he trained as a Chiropractor. He obtained his Chiropractic degree in 1915. While in Chiropractic college he met a fellow student, Helen Sanders, and they married. Together, in the early 1920's, they developed a technique for postural reintegration using engineering principles, laws of leverage, physiology and Chiropractic. They called it Aquarian Age Healing. Drs. Hurley and Sanders eventually divorced and Dr. Hurley moved to Colorado where he continued to teach the technique until his death in the late 1950's.

One of the instructors that John Hurley trained was a Chiropractor called Francis Goes. He worked in private practice and kept the technique pure. In 1962 he taught another Chiropractor called LaMar Rosquist, over a period of about fifteen months, who collated all the material. He originally called it German Therapology, meaning, "a therapy learnt from a German" (Dr. Goes was of German extraction), but was later to change the name to Spinal Touch. Dr. Goes encouraged Dr. Rosquist to improve and refine the technique, and in 1975 he published "The Encyclopaedia of the Spinal Touch Treatment" and began teaching it.

Although unauthorised versions of Spinal Touch had been taught in England since the mid 1980's, it wasn't until 1998 that the first English people went to Salt Lake City to train with Dr. Rosquist to become authorised tutors in the full technique. Only those people who have been trained by Dr. Rosquist are recognised by B.E.S.T to teach the authorised technique.

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