My name is Dr. Philip Eckardt, I was born on 8 December 1970 in Hamburg. After spending time in Switzerland, France and the USA, I completed my Abitur at the Josef Hofmiller Gymnasium in Freising in 1990. Following some travelling and military service, I embarked on my medical adventure at LMU and TU Munich. I passed my third state examination in 1999 and received my medical licence, but I was unsure whether I should stay in medicine.

It was only when I discovered manual medicine and osteopathy ‘at the last minute’ that a medical path opened up for me, leading to training at the Karl Sell Medical Seminar and the German-American Academy for Osteopathy. In 2003, during a visit to Dr Allan Phillips DO in New Zealand, I found my spiritual home in functional neurology.

Since then, I have been treating my patients and teaching my students using this form of medical perspective and way of thinking. To this end, I established a private medical practice in 2003 and the German Institute for Neurological Integration in 2004, which has been operating under the name Neurolog Akademie since 2009. Neuro-functional medicine can fill a huge gap in medicine, the gap in the treatment of functional disorders, which, according to a comment in the British Medical Journal, all patients suffer from without there being any specific examination and treatment methods available – until now.

Twenty-two years of training and constantly poring over countless books and studies, coupled with thousands of treatments on patients, have led to the systematisation of neurofunctional examination and treatment in the form of the Neurofunctional Integration System. I supplemented my functional neurology training with courses taught by Eric Cobb DC, which I attended in Copenhagen and Malmö from 2016 to 2019. His form of exercises and training are a wonderful complement to the technique of Neurofunctional Integration.

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