One of the original co-authors of the NMAHM®, John Vasey MCSP, DipTP was a member of the teaching faculty at the Physiotherapy School & Hospital, Corunna Street, Glasgow. He was taught directly by T McClurg Anderson, the founder of both the Faculty of Physiotherapy, and of Human Kinetics.
John Vasey introduced Lesley Crozier to this system, and they began the initial stages of developing the NMAHM® by exploring the background life sciences involved in movement analysis and applying them to
critiquing Human Kinetic practices. Similarly Lesley Crozier introduced Sheila Cozens BSc (Hons), MCSP to the NMAHM®, and the NMAHM® has continued to further evolve over the time they have worked together as MovES~Movement Education Services Ltd. Although it is known that others took the early Kinetic teachings forward, the degree of development of that system
as applied by others
cannot be truly identified.
It is known for instance that two major shifts happened within the practice of Human Kinetics. The first was when T McClurg Anderson was asked to develop methods of enabling the teaching of his system: it seems that he came to regret developing a “formula”-based approach which although appeared to help his notion of enabling others in industry to teach his method, also seems to have caused dilution and distortion of the system. The second was when a number of trainers chose to eliminate the teaching of the part of Kinetics that Anderson appears to have felt was the most important element - that of Specific Conditioning. This step in turn seemed to add to the dilution of the original Kinetic Approach.
Some visitors/readers may be ware that recently some practices between both systems (Kinetics and NMAHM®) appear to have come more closely together: the specific reasoning for this occurrence has not yet been formally investigated, and so cannot reliably be ascertained.
It is however clear that claims to efficiency within McClurg Anderson's Kinetics is based primarily upon mechanics, and inducing Kinetic energy shifts. Such issues do not inform the concept of ‘Efficient Movement' as espoused by MovES Ltd within the NMAHM® . It also appears true to say that while practices have diverged in terms of the degree of adherence to the original conceptual elements the NMAHM® is more faithful to TMA's original Kinetics
than any other named system currently known to MovES Ltd personnel.
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