While neural therapy has been practiced for about a century, it is part of a scientific tradition that is centuries older. For as long as healers have been trying to ease human suffering, they have been treating blockages. The concept of blockages lies at the core of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Osteopathy, Chiropractic and Indigenous practices worldwide. 

Neural therapy was introduced by Walter and Ferdinand Huneke.  These brothers, a medical doctor and a dentist, were practicing in Germany at the time.  An accidental discovery and a leg injection that healed a lifelong shoulder pain, led them to develop and teach this approach to hundreds of doctors throughout their lifetime.  Dedicated students made this therapy their own, establishing National Associations in Switzerland, Austria,  Italy and Spain.

It was in the early 1980s that neural therapy first crossed the Atlantic.  With European doctors traveling to Latin America to teach, and passionate local doctors leading their colleagues to embrace this exciting holistic approach, its popularity grew among doctors in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru.

The first neural therapy workshops in North America were led by Dietrich Klinghardt, who also taught kinesiology, a controversial but highly useful tool that became very popular.  This led to its use by a multidisciplinary group of providers who shared an integrative approach, in contrast to other countries where it has been exclusively practiced by medical and dental providers. 

NAANT was established in 2017, after the first International Conference in Ottawa, Canada. This initiative was led by the late Dr Robert Kidd, who wrote one of the first English language textbooks on the subject.  After an online webinar series helped us survive the pandemic, the NAANT board of directors have redoubled their efforts to bring neural therapy to America, focused on its promise as a historic medical advance.