The book will be a compendium of the philosophy, techniques and approaches that get results with clients and enable the massage therapist to build and maintain a successful practice. This book will become a well -thumbed companion beside every massage therapist's bedside!
This book brings a large body of work, known as medical therapeutic yoga (MTY), to health professionals and yoga teachers so they can apply yoga postures to treat acute and chronic disease processes. MTY is based on integrative medicine's biopsychosocial model of care, a patient-centered approach - shown to be the most effective.
This book is an adventurous foray into the subtle aspects of osteopathic diagnosis and treatment, the 'energetic' dimension in relation to the Lesion, the patient/practitioner exchange and touch; the clinical 'art' and the alchemy of practice. The role of visualisation and intention; the mind/matter dichotomy; the evolving view of osteopathy in ......
This book helps the professional therapist incorporate mindfullness-based practices into their clinical work especially when helping patients with interpersonal relationships.
A Clinical Guide to Assessment and Treatment of Myofascial Dysfunctions
An evidence-based textbook about myofascia and how an understanding of its functions and pathology can be used by physical therapists and other bodyworkers to illuminate and enhance their clinical practice.
Motility, relating to the vital energy of the human tissues, is a basic concept in osteopathy. This book presents a simple and systematic definition of motility, based on the movement of all of the body's structures during embryogenesis.
Muscle testing - A Concise Manual, provides a reference for understanding how structure relates to function, and how by knowing function we can learn structural configurations. The book summarises the key anatomical facts and figures, give methods for muscle testing by several techniques, and provides clinically useful information to ......
Musculoskeletal Pain - Assessment, Prediction and Treatment presents a common sense approach to interpreting and applying existing clinical knowledge and new research to help clinicians make sense of the complex phenomena of acute and chronic post-traumatic musculoskeletal pain. Built upon the Assess, Predict, Treat framework, the authors offer a ......
In these unique and lavishly illustrated books and their accompanying videos, the practitioner can for the first time see the effect of manual interventions on underlying body structures. Using over 700 photographs and diagrams these volumes reveal fascial architecture to the reader in all its glory, and sets out the principles and practice ......
