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Wolf Mehling, MD
| 12 years of private practice in midsize inner city in Germany combining primary care with referrals for manual medicine and psychotherapy. President of physicians' association for manual medicine in my state and member of the state board for manual medicine in Germany. Longtime interest and training in body-work techniques and body-oriented psychotherapy and their application in (chronic) musculoskeletal pain problems. Used two-year research fellowship to conduct (1) a randomized controlled clinical trial on a hands-on mind-body therapy for patients with chronic low back pain and (2) a secondary data analysis on difficulties identifying emotions and their relation to the prevalence of back pain in public transit drivers in San Francisco. Currently on faculty as assistant clinical professor both in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF. 60% of my time is committed to research, completing the research started as a fellow. Also, I am currently involved in a NIH planning grant for international cooperation on a major research project on Yoga and cooperate with scholars from India. I applied for a NIH career award to conduct research that could lead to a clinical prediction tool for early identification of patients with acute low back pain likely going on to chronic pain. This would provide a tool for future research of complementary therapies in the secondary prevention of chronic low back pain. |
- Mehling, W.E., Krause, N, Are Difficulties Perceiving and Expressing Emotions Associated with Low Back Pain? The relationship between lack of emotional awareness (alexithymia) and 12-month prevalence of low back pain in 1,180 urban public transit operators. In press: Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
- Jacobs B.P., Mehling W.E., et al: Feasibility of Conducting a Clinical Trial on Hatha Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain: Methodological Lessons. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2004 10(2)80-83
- Mehling, W.E., [Breath Therapy] in German, book chapter in: Bühring, M. (edit), Naturheilverfahren (Handbook for Complementary ad Alternative Medicine), 2002, Springer
- In peer review: Mehling, W.E., Addressing Obstacles to Clinical Research of “Bodywork” Therapies; A Review of Methodological Issues. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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- Mehling, W.E. (October, 2003). Obstacles for clinical trials in CAM therapies. Poster presented at North American Primary Care Research Group. Banff, Canada.
- Mehling, W.E. (July 2003). [Breath and breath therapy in medical research] in German. Oral presentation at the meeting of the Physicians for Natural Healing Methods. Berlin, Germany.
- Mehling, W.E., Krause, N. (June, 2003) Are difficulties perceiving and expressing emotions a risk factor for low back pain? Poster presented at National Research Service Award Trainees Research Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
- Mehling, W.E. (June, 2003). Proprioceptive training with breath therapy for patients with chronic low back pain, a pilot study. Abstract presented at National Research Service Award Trainees Research Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
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- 2002 – 2004
Breath Therapy and Back Pain. Principal Investigator. $48,748. Mount Zion Health Fund (intramural grant UCSF Medical Center): Clinical pilot trial using an approach from mind-body medicine in primary care clinic patients with chronic low back pain, compare its efficacy to that of physical therapy, and explore the feasibility of an objective proprioception outcome measure.
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