Colour me unconvinced. Beyond lots of testimonials, what scientific evidence does he have that ME/CFS can, essentially, be cured by a fancy massage? If the mechanism is some sort of failure of the lymphatic system, has there been any experiments that actually try and measure the movement of lymph fluid? Any evidence that lymph fluid is flowing 'in the wrong direction'?
This study, IMHO, provides little decent scientific evidence: the confounding factors are too large. An 'advanced practioner' might well be able to get an inkling (even if only subconciously) whether the person they are examining is unwell vs a healthy control, regardless of what prodding and poking they do. Compare ME/CFS patients with, say, MS patients as a control and I'll revisit my view on that.
Otherwise, I'll tick off the following red flags:
- 'Osteopathic approach'
- Trademarked process
- 'Buy this DVD to learn more!'
- AFAIK, not a single paper on Pubmed testing the Perrin Technique itself, just this 'diagnosis' paper and the original hypothesis paper that appears only to have been cited in English by a couple of chiropractors in alternative health journal.
- Apparently very simple approach for a highly complex illness.
Think I'll file this one next to the SMILE trial.
Perrin does NOT claim this is a cure. FACT. I spoke to him direct about this. It helps. EVERYONE on here right now is faced with a bombardment of toxins daily. How does our body clear these? Perrins technique helps, not cure.