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Healing instead of repairing With regard to their origin and healing, Mohamed Khalifa has a completely different view of injuries to that of orthodox medicine. He says: ”What we have to treat is a movement, not an injury.” From Khalifa’s point of view, it is not a question of anatomical reparation (for example, stitching a torn ligament): what is involved is restoring the reflex function of an injured joint. “The function forms the joint, maintains it and builds it up again after an injury,“ he says. And that in a natural way: by means of the body’s own self-healing powers – not as the result of an intervention from outside, and even less so as the result of foreign bodies such as implants. Orthodox medicine, however, only repairs the anatomy and hopes that the function will follow. But that does not happen, especially if other conditions are at the same time not working properly – first and foremost, the unconditioned reflexes. These play a decisive role even prior to an injury. According to Khalifa, an injury occurs because the unconditioned reflexes have already been damaged in minor, unheeded accidents. These reflexes are regulated via the spinal chord and guarantee optimal movement. If they are damaged, the conditioned reflexes, which are regulated by the brain, take over their work – but do not achieve the same degree of effectiveness. That leads either to a sportsman being out-of-form or having ups-and-downs, or to an injury at some stage, resulting from the fact that the complicated interaction of all muscles and joints has been disrupted. The traditional treatment of injuries (operation), however, does not put an end to the negative development: rather, the sportsman winds up eventually in a vicious circle. The unconditioned reflexes are still not working, the optimal interaction of the muscles and joints is disrupted, the sportsman is confronted with coordination problems and has no idea why, or what he can do about it. His sensors provide him with false data. For Khalifa, the conclusion is not that an injury must be treated but that movement must again be made possible. “The doctor treats an injury, whereas I activate a system. The doctor treats a cruciate ligament, I treat the system knee.” Confirmation of Khalifa’s view is provided by a large number of sportsmen. The Premier League in German football is full of players who are staggering from one injury to the next and they don’t know the reason why. On the basis of his understanding of what an injury is, Khalifa has himself worked out a method of treatment which first searches for the starting point of an acute injury and restores, basically, the unconditioned reflexes. Granted that the fact that in doing so he heals even the most serious injuries, such as cruciate ligament tears, solely through the pressure his hands exercise (without operation), makes him appear to the outsider as a miracle-worker, nevertheless the effects he achieves are explicable in terms of quantum physics. And they have been achieved thousands of times – with sports stars such as Boris Becker, Franziska van Almsick, or the Romanian Olympic Gold Medal winner in swimming, Camelia Potec; or with show-business stars such as Herbert Grönemeyer and Karl Moik. Four weeks prior to the world ski championships in Italy, the American skier Daron Rahlves was in Hallein. Afterwards he won silver and bronze in Bormio. For Khalifa, healing is synonymous with growth. By exercising pressure, he sets this growth in motion selectively and with control. His hands serve him as instruments both of measurement and of therapy. For example, a torn cruciate ligament grows again from connective tissue material by virtue of the electro-magnetic signals that result from the pressure exercised, and restores not only the function but also the anatomical structure – an anatomy, however, that has grown naturally. Khalifa’s work ensures not only that the unconditioned reflexes function again, but also that the cells in the area of injury have an optimal supply of nutritious substances. Only then is the healing process complete. Incidentally, insufficient supply through the metabolism is just as much a forerunner of an injury as a disruption of the unconditioned reflexes. As entry to the interior of the body takes place solely via electro-magnetic signals, Khalifa’s treatment damages nothing – as the scalpel does in the case of an operation. Khalifa illustrates the difference between his view and the way traditional medicine works, especially surgery, with the following example: “A man has a wound and it just will not heal. The doctor clips the ends, binds them with adhesive, sews them together, but the wound does not heal. Things change, however, after the patient goes to an internal specialist and is diagnosed as having diabetes. He is treated accordingly, and afterwards the wound heals all by itself because the regulating functions of the body have been set in order again – in this case by means of medication. I do that without medication. If the basis for healing, the metabolism, is not taken into consideration, all the clipping and binding and sewing will be of no use. These are only auxiliary constructs: they cannot lead to a complete healing.” |
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