Objective: To evaluate the clinical effect of HSE on low back and neck pain and determine differences in pain, use of pain medication, and number of doctor visits before and after 6 months of HSE sessions.
This paper examines the differences within the dimension of chronic pains (Patient Heatlh Questionnaire PHQ 15) before and after participation in an AEQ programme. It also looks at the relationship between this dimension and the dimensions of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (see below).
The study was carried out on programmes conducted by Aleš Ernst, founder and Level 5 teacher of the AEQ method; the results can therefore not be extrapolated to include AEQ programmes led by teachers of lower levels, or to address the effectiveness of somatics, clinical somatics or the Feldenkreis method.
