By announcing that she had completed her “course in kinesiology”, Laure Manaudou aroused very strong reactions as this practice is strongly condemned by some.
TV consultant, speaker and soon kinesiologist: Laure Manaudou is preparing to diversify her activities. Recently interviewed in the columns of Femme Actuelle, the former swimmer revealed that she had completed a “course in kinesiology”. “I have validated my 600 hours of internship, all I have to do is pass the certification”,
she had clarified, indicating that she wanted to help others.
This announcement sparked many reactions. Blame it on the doubts surrounding this practice and the abuses observed. The different training courses are not recognized by the State and kinesiology, founded in the 1960s by an American chiropractor, Dr George Goodheart, is currently considered a pseudoscience, a report published by the INSERM in 2017 also affirming that kinesiology “has not yet demonstrated its effectiveness”.
A baby had died
“Or how a high-level athlete falls into charlatanism… how sad! »reacted Laurence Coiffard, doctor of pharmacy and professor at the University of Nantes, the Association for the Defense of Families and Individuals Victims of Sects in Alsace and Grand Est affirming:
“Laure Manaudou is now a kinesiologist, with an unrecognized diploma, obtained in a few months on unclear bases. »
If kinesiology, singled out by Miviludes (Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Abuses) is so questionable, it is in particular because of several cases which have caused a lot of noise. In 1996, in Germany, Olivia Pilhar, a six-year-old child suffering from cancer, was removed from the care of her parents, who had chosen to turn to kinesiology. The couple had been convicted of abuse and the little girl, treated in a more conventional manner, was able to be saved. The kinesiologist, the former German physicist Ryke Geerd Hamer, nicknamed
“the miraculous cancer healer”had been convicted several times for illegal practice of medicine and fraud, notably receiving three years in prison after the death of a woman.
In France, the best-known case is that of little Kerywan, whose parents also turned to kinesiology. The young baby, only breastfed and deprived of protein, died at the age of 16 months when he weighed only 6 kilos, that is to say the weight of a 4 month old infant, and the parents had been sentenced for “deprivation of care or food followed by death”.
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