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Accessible to all health care professionals, this text provides a guide to understanding and managing back pain and is one of the premier examples of a biopsychosocial approach to medicine.
In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience.
Therapeutic Touch involves a variety of subtle interactions intended to help and heal. It is more than touching patients in order to comfort them but rather a set of skills which all healthcare practitioners can integrate into their everyday practice.
As a massage therapist, bodyworker, somatic practitioner, or any type of manual therapist, you hold more than a client's physical body in your hands. You also contact a person's psychological and emotional dimensions.
Until recently most attention was focussed on low back pain but now the key area of interest for new research is neck pain and related headache often associated with whiplash or poor posture in working environments such as using computers.
The Story of the Grand Celebration...
Basé sur les besoins des infirmiers et des aides-soignants, cet ouvrage ne présente pas de techniques mais décrit le toucher comme prise de contact entre soignant et soigné et insiste beaucoup sur la relation avec le malade (comment aborder l'autre ? Rentrer en communication avec un patient pour apporter bien être...).
Le toucher est primordial pour le développement des bébés et des enfants. Il leur permet de se percevoir en tant que personne individuelle et de prendre conscience de leur connexion avec le reste du monde. Dona Finando démontre que le toucher est aussi une clé pour rétablir la santé lorsque se déclenchent les maladies. La thérapie des points trigger...
Vous avez entre les mains le guide de référence pour soulager vos douleurs chroniques et celles de vos proches grâce au massage des trigger points, qui sont de petits noeuds de contraction dans les muscles. Ces noeuds apparaissent lorsqu’un muscle est trop ou mal sollicité, et aussi en cas de stress. L’automassage des trigger points permet d’éliminer de...
This is an excellent resource for anyone currently working with athletes from any level who wish to use hypnosis to improve performance, as well as everyone currently using hypnotherapy techniques i ...
Yoga helps children gain a better sense of their emotions and bodies, stimulates an interest in their physical health and develops gross motor skills such as balancing and jumping. This is a liv ...
Fred Savage, a retired engineer, was painfully crippled with osteoarthritis (also known as arthrosis). Told twice that "nothing more can be done for you," he took his illness as a challenge and learned to live pain-free. Through a combination of exercise, walking, Trager bodywork, and relaxation he returned his body to health and comfort.
This book is the first major text on the kinematics of human motion and is written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. The book begins with careful descriptions of how to study ...
Here's your complete guide to managing low back pain. This Sixth Edition features eight years of completely updated research by Dr. Cox...all resulting in this comprehensive source for diagnosis and treatment. Extensive algorithms of decision making are featured representing the standard of care in distraction adjusting. New chapters include: / History,...
This practical book offers an extensive examination of how manual therapy (MT) techniques work, and how to match the most suitable techniques to different conditions. Drawing on evidence-based research, it explores the physiological, neurological and psychophysiological responses of the human body to MT techniques. In doing so, it helps MT practitioners...
Back pain is a major problem for modern society, affecting most people at some time in their lives. Much has been published on back pain, but most books give either a broad overview of the vital iss ...
Acupuncture and related techniques are increasingly being introduced into a wide range of health care approaches. This book gives a comprehensive introduction and international overview of these tec ...
The human pelvis has recently become a focus for a considerable amount of new research which is relevant to manual therapy practice. In particular, movement within the pelvis is now being recognised and studied in relation to its role in maintaining stability in the vertebral column and subsequent implications for the prevention and treatment of low back...
During professional training all manual therapists learn their professional techniques and skills in depth, but to date there has been little attempt to present the 'fundamentals' of manual therapy ...
This book provides essentiel information on how movement is produced, how to recognize when movement is abnormal, what caused the abnormality, and what must be done to improve it. In this second edi ...
This well-established book for manual therapists covers all basic aspects of examination and the rationale of mobilisation procedures.
This book sets out to explain in detail how it comes about that an animal or a person is able to stand up and move about without falling over. The nature of the problem is spelled out, together with ...
Neale's Common Foot Disorders is recognised internationally as an essential textbook and reference source for podiatrists and chiropodists - for students and established practitioners alike. In this new edition the editors have again provided an up-to-date overview of the practice of podiatry - the pathology and presenting features of the common...
The technique has played an important part in my life, not only as a guide to physical management and health, but because I am by temperament disposed to examine and probe its psychological aspects. What Alexander called "inhibition", abandonment of bodily effort and conscious management which some other techniques call "non-doing", has helped me through...