FIMM - FIMM Policy and Mission

FIMM Policy and Mission

Introduction
The International Federation for Manual/Musculoskeletal Medicine (FIMM) is the federation of national societies, worldwide, of physicians who practice Manual/Musculoskeletal Medicine (M/M Medicine). FIMM is a society according to Belgium law.

M/M Medicine is the true medical discipline of the most common causes of pain and disability, namely the reversible dysfunctions of the locomotor system and especially the spine.

M/M Medicine completes and complements the syllabus of both undergraduate and postgraduate education & training of physicians.

M/M Medicine is a specific help for the individual as well as economical for social expenditure.

Leaflet (accepted by the FIMM General Assembly 2005)

Introduction
Definition and goals
Definition of FIMM
Strategies and methods
Internal structure
Position and role for FIMM in health care
Resources

Elaborated by the FIMM Policy Committee*

English leaflet: FIMM policy and mission (97.7 kb)

French leaflet: La FIMM, de quoi s'agit-il? (100.6 kb)

German leaflet: Leitbild (85.8 kb)

How to fold the leaflet (182.5 kb)

* Guido Brugnoni, Italy • Timo Rousi, Finland • Andrzej Sadowski, Poland •
Peter Skew, UK (invited member) • Bernard Terrier, Switzerland (Chairman) •
Marie-José Teyssandie, France • Hans Tilscher, Austria • Wolfgang von Heymann, Germany