ALF is more of a principle than an appliance
One message, many interpretations
Over the years, ALF has been taught by many clinicians in many places, and each teacher has shaped it through their own experience. The result is something like a language with regional dialects. The vocabulary is shared, but the accent, the emphasis, and sometimes even the meaning of a word can change from one teacher to the next.
We think that is worth saying plainly, because it explains why two providers who both describe their work as ALF may approach the same patient in very different ways. It is also why one of the most helpful questions a family or a colleague can ask is simply, "Where, and from whom, did you learn?"
From his teaching to Synergy ALF
Learning from the source, and growing from it
Through The Synergy Academy, providers have access to more than a decade of Dr. Nordstrom's original teaching, gathered into one convenient, curated online learning library. That library is the fruit of more than fifteen years Dr. Angie Tenholder has dedicated to sharing his work with the provider community.
Dr. Nordstrom always encouraged his students to become independent thinkers who figure things out for themselves, and Dr. Tenholder took that to heart. Over the years, her own clinical experience, and the science that helped her understand it, grew into a way of practicing and teaching that is now her own. Today she offers that version as Synergy ALF, taught through The Synergy Academy and part of NeuralFORM, where the ALF appliance is one option among several.
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ALF is part of the roots. NeuralFORM is where those roots have grown wings.