There are courses for Bertelé method open to doctors, rehabilitation therapists, psychologists, massage-physiotherapists and psychomotor therapists.

First Year


Four weeks continuously full-time (in May). Between the first and the second year the student will have to participate in at least one week of practice during one of the weeks of intensive therapy and also participate in 10 treatments with a qualified therapist so as to learn and understand the therapeutic strategies of the technique. The course is worth 50 ECM credits.

Second Year

Two weeks full-time. Between the second and the third year the student has to attend three days of visits-treatments with Dr. Bertelé. The course is worth 50 ECM credits.

Third Year


One week full-time. The course is worth 28 ECM credits.

After the diploma regular refresher courses are foreseen.

The objectives of the course are:
- preparation and instruction of students in the methodology of the observation of patients who present with osteo-artho-muscular, postural and neuromuscular pathologies. With such observation it is possible to do a better evaluation of the patient at the beginning of rehabilitation therapy and a check on the efficacy of the therapy itself

- reading and de-coding the language of the body so as to succeed in understanding the message of the emotional disorder and profound suffering which is manifested in postural and neuromuscular pathology.

- understanding the postural rehabilitation technique according to the principles of the Mézières method, which has the scope to rebalance the physiological muscle function through lengthening of the hypertonic and constantly retracted muscular chains, especially in orthopedic (scoliosis, disc hernia), and neurological (hemiplegia, coma recovery, multiple sclerosis) pathologies, often after surgical interventions.

- educating patients in how to maintain the optimum posture obtained with the treatment

- how to take care of the patient

To gain health is to change and to evolve, to treat is to help the individual to understand their disorder and to accept it so as to be able to become healthy.