Rolfing is about integrating the human physical structure through body manipulation. In this text, pictures and personal accounts show how remarkable changes and improvements in body alignment and posture occur after practising this healing art.

This book includes a description of treatment for the peripheral joints to improve joint mobility, articular balance and vertical dimensions of the intra-articular space.

Consumer text of information, motivation, and positive changes to improve and maintain good health. Presents the author's knowledge gained from fifty years of osteopathic practice, reading, post-graduate education, teaching, and common sense.

Ad Warmerdam DHSc, MSPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MTC has had extensive post-graduate training in the US and the Netherlands, and over 20 years of clinical experience. This has coalesced into a unique conceptual framework of muscle-joint interaction....

Since the time of Hippocrates, medical practitioners have noted the clinical significance of temperature changes found over different parts of the body. In Manual Thermal Diagnosis, Jean-Pierre Barral brings this form of diagnosis into the twentieth century. As one aspect of the physical examination, manual thermal diagnosis is a method that utilizes sensitivity to temperature changes t...

Anatomy of Movement: Exercises is the companion volume to the widely-acclaimed Anatomy of Movement. Here the authors describe and illustrate, through hundreds of drawings and photographs, a comprehensive series of exercises involving the most common movements of the body. The exercises - useful in all physical disciplines and therapies - were chosen on the basis of their effectiveness a...

What are the forces that disturb the body's natural alignment and establish conditions of chronic pain and dysfunction? It was this question that led Dr. Ida Rolf on her lifelong search for a means to undo the ill effects of time and injury (both physical and emotional) on the body's structure. The result was Rolfing, an organized pattern of bodywork that has freed millions to live healt...

This work describes how to study human body position and displacement without regard to time, velocity or acceleration.

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, development and acceptance of dist...