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About Aadel Bülow-Hansen
- Aadel Bülow-Hansen (24 September 1906 – 18 November 2001) was a Norwegian physiotherapist.
- Together with psychiatrist Trygve Braatøy (1904-1953), she developed psychomotor physiotherapy using psychomotorics, which can be used for the treatment of neuromuscular stress conditions.
- Aadel Bülow-Hansen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.
- She went to primary and middle school at Nissens Pigskole.
- She continued her education at Orthopedic and Medico-Mechanical Institute (Christiania Orthopediske and Medico Mekaniske Senter), which had been founded by her father, Victor Bülow-Hansen (1861–1938).
- She was employed by Sophie's Minde Clinic (now a subsidiary of Oslo University Hospital) from 1927 until 1945.
- During World War II, she worked together with neurologist Henrik Seyffarth, to find treatments for work-related stress.
- She came to understand that there might be a connection between muscle tension, respiration, and mental trauma.
- Bülow-Hansen had seen how important controlled respiration was to contributing to a healthy body and can also lead to control of the emotions.
- She was the first physiotherapist to be named to the First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav, and in 2000, she was named as the physiotherapist of the century in Norway.One of her students was Gerda Boyesen, who later developed Biodynamic Psychology, a form of Body Psychotherapy.
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