Our Purpose
Welcome to Triggerband LLC. We promote the Fascial Distortion Model (FDM) to practitioners in the fields of osteopathy, chiropractic, and physical therapy. Typaldos Manual Therapy (TMT), which is the practice of FDM, came from the work of Dr. Stephen P. Typaldos, D.O.
What is the FDM and what is TMT?
The FDM says that most musculoskeletal injuries are caused by six distinct types of fascial distortions. TMT is the treatment method Dr. Stephen Typaldos, D.O., developed to fix these distortions.
What Triggerband can do for you
Here you can order an FDM textbook, register for our upcoming TMT seminar, and join our professional web discussion forum.
Doctors and patients alike can create a user account and become Triggerband members. It's free, just click on the link in the red box to the left. This is an interactive website. Here is a summary of current and future resources: discussion board, submission of articles for publication, users post comments about published media, patient referrals, individual web pages for member doctors, and links to external resources. We invite and appreciate all comments, questions, and suggestions to help improve services for both patients and doctors.
How can I learn the FDM?
In the wake of Dr. Typaldos's tragic death, we are implementing a plan to promote and protect the FDM. Doctors who attend the seminar this fall can, upon sufficient mastery of the techniques, mentor new TMT practitioners in week-long rotations. Of course, this is not a requirement for attending the seminar.
Our October seminar will probably be the only one of its kind, as it is intended to mark the beginning of this mentoring program. Experience has shown that, although helpful, a three-day seminar is simply not enough training to learn TMT. Learning the FDM and TMT is more like doing a second residency or going back to school. But efforts will indeed be richly rewarded with patient satisfaction and volume, peer respect and admiration.
About the Manager
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Alexander Zissimos Typaldos, the son of Dr. Stephen Typaldos, remembers hearing about the first fascial distortion when he was only 10 years old. He was among the handful of “patients” to experience Dr. Typaldos’s earliest treatments! As a child, Alexander watched as the FDM grew – the number of distortions rose to six, a loyal following of osteopaths emerged, and Dr. Typaldos wrote his textbook and lectured around the world, while establishing his 100 percent manual therapy practice.
Alexander also witnessed firm resistance toward the FDM from most osteopaths and orthopedists, and even hospital administrators when Dr. Typaldos worked in the ER. How could anyone reject a model as sound as the FDM, and treatments with such clear and impressive results? Disgusted with corruption in the medical profession, Alexander decided not to follow in his father’s footsteps, instead pursuing a career in law.
March 28, 2006, the date of Dr. Typaldos’s death, changed the direction of Alexander’s life. Alexander initially managed his father’s estate part-time, working with Marjorie Kasten, P.T., Dr. Typaldos’s trusted advisor. Then in January of this year, Alexander devoted himself fully to promoting the FDM. He explains why he did so this way: “I can only have peace knowing I am doing everything possible to help patients with fascial distortions. I owe it to them. And besides, it will take someone outside of medicine to change medicine, right?”
Alexander has a bachelor of business administration degree from Southwestern Adventist University, and a law degree from the University of Maine. He enjoys reading, bicycling, and attending church events in his spare time. |
