Somatics for Insurance Companies
  The Claims Department
  The Rehabilitation Department
  The Client
Motor Vehicle Insurance
Funding and a Look into the Future

Somatics for Insurance Companies

Insurance companies have to manage many claims related to rehabilitation, health & wellness. A fine balance needs to be found between services to the client (medical; rehabilitation; legal) and the cost of these services. Depending on your geographical location and the services in your area, many claims with insurance companies are related to basic medical situations, injuries at the workplace (traumatic injuries; RSI etc.) or injuries related to Motor Vehicle Accidents (like ‘whiplash’). The average cost of premiums will be directly related to the average cost of services rendered. Due to the almost unacceptable increase in medical expenses (fees and advanced medical technology) and due to the change in our society (substantial increases in legal expenses, long term disability expenses etc.), it is becoming more and more important for insurance companies to look for cost-saving methods. Somatics can create a significant cost saving aspect for insurance companies.

• The Claims Department
  Deciding on which direction to take in a claim is not always easy. Especially not when dealing with situations where the client has visited many medical specialists and practitioners. To direct your client in the right direction will demand knowledge, skill and experience. Understanding and embodying the core fundamentals of human functioning will be the greatest asset in this process. How else can you truly comprehend your client’s situation and resolve the claim ?

  

• The Rehabilitation Department
  Dealing with severe injuries is not easy. Surgical interventions, physical and/or emotional pain, a sudden involuntary change in life & family dynamics are just a few of the complications in rehabilitation. When understanding and integrating the somatic concepts, it becomes clear how essential and complimentary this approach truly is to rehabilitation. As if existing therapies and modalities are pieces of the puzzle, it will now be possible, often for the first time, to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
  Please also read Somatics for the Public and Somatic Rehabilitation.

  

• The Client
  “People don’t need therapy, they need education.”
  Almost all modalities within the current healthcare system are based on treating the client from a third person perspective, meaning somebody else is doing the work on your body. However, a more successful and empowering process for the client (as well as the practitioner) is when the client is experiencing, exploring and upgrading his own potential from a first person point of view. This fundamental change in approach is responsible for the difference in ‘therapy’ (where a practitioner will be working on you) compared to ‘education’ (where a practitioner is working with you, upgrading your own potential). This change activates the client in his rehabilitation process to become independent in his own process of rehabilitation. For many, this will mean a new beginning and they will finally be able to start moving on with their lives…

  

In this day and age it is becoming essential for Insurance Companies to incorporate changes in philosophy within their programs to maintain a balance between services rendered and costs. It will only be when these changes will be incorporated throughout the whole program that significant results will be seen. Somatics does not only deal with your client, but is even more powerful when incorporated by all your employees as well. Your employees are also dealing with your clients after all. That will make the process complete and a more productive and efficient environment for all involved will be the result.

‘Somatics for Insurance Companies’ – Workshops can be organized in your area. To learn more about this potential, please contact The Somatic Health Center.

Motor Vehicle Insurance

When suffering a ‘whiplash’ injury, an automatic protective reflex mechanism within your body is triggered. This ‘Startle Reflex’ is a total body reflex throughout the whole system. Everybody who has suffered ‘whiplash’ has been exposed to a triggering of this Startle Reflex. It is not until this increase in tension throughout your whole body will have been normalized that proper rehabilitation can begin on the damaged soft tissues. When this total body reflex is not ‘dis-engaged’, the body will remain ‘stuck’ in the power of this reflex and there will be little or no improvement with rehabilitation. Somatic Rehabilitation recognizes these reflexes and reverses its damaging effects within only a few sessions.

It is the experience and philosophy of The Somatic Health Center that many car accidents can easily be avoided. Due to the fact that the majority of our population is suffering substantial amounts of Sensory Motor Amnesia, it is obvious that many people will not and do not have proper reflexes to react properly in emergency situations. The results are in many cases devastating and costly. ‘Preventative Driving Programs’ can easily be developed where drivers are not only taught how to read traffic signs but more importantly, how their eyeballs are coordinated with their feet ! The Somatic Health Center is very interested in assisting further research and development of preventative programs. Please contact us at your convenience.

Funding and a Look into the Future

Somatics is a new modality in the field of rehabilitation, health & wellness. Based on fundamental movement patterns of the human being, it is destined to be successful. To incorporate this basic understanding about human existence (physically and emotionally) is essential for anybody who works in the field of insurance, health care and rehabilitation. This new knowledge and understanding will create a revolution within the field of insurance companies, rehabilitation, pain management and ergonomics, resulting in a more enjoyable and productive environment for all.

Based on the works of Dr. Thomas Hanna (1928-1990), founder of the field of Somatics, and based on existing scientific and medical knowledge and technology, it is a new generation of practitioners and educators that will lead the human race into the 21st century. It is the somatic concepts that create the understanding of rehabilitation, health and wellness that we all have been waiting for. Somatics is not only easy to understand for your clients or employees, but it is also easily teachable to other health care providers or educators.

Looking into the future, it will be important to recognize & acknowledge the field of Somatics for its revolutionary insights. To educate more practitioners will be the first necessary step to take. To provide funding for clients will be important as well for making Somatics available to all (just like healthcare, chiropractic care, physical therapy etc.). Providing the established society with more scientific research will also be necessary for gaining the recognition it deserves and for stimulating changes within existing programs. There is a lot of money out there that can be used in a more cost saving manner and that can lead to a higher quality product (preventative programs, rehabilitation programs, wellness programs and research). Time and money on research can be spend in a more efficient way with more interesting results when somatically grounded. Future ‘functional’ research will only become useful and revolutionary when somatic concepts as ‘first person’, ‘the reflexes of stress’, and the concept of Sensory Motor Amnesia will be integrated throughout the project.

Please also read Somatic Research.