The student will learn the form of holistic alternative therapy that claimed to be used to correct misalignments in the spinal column and other joints. In its theoretical approach, it is somewhat related to chiropractic and osteopathy, although it is different in its practical application. Early students of Dorn, like Helmuth Koch (who coined the name Dornmethode), Hildegard Steinhauser, and Harald Fleig, started to teach the method in the 1990s, enabling its use to spread in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Dorn intended for it to become a folk medicine, free from trademark or copyright so it was universally accessible.