This completely revised new edition provides an essential guide for all level 3 and 4 students of massage and aromatherapy. Includes material on baby massage, sports massage, and Indian head massage.
"It is happiness toward which our own nature obliges us eternally to tend" (Baron d'Holbach)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Child and Adolescent Care highlights the contribution of complementary and alternative medicine to paediatric health care. In three clearly defined sections, it will be an invaluable guide for paediatric nurses, health visitors, and nursery nurses as well as other health practitioners including physiotherapists and occupational therapists : Sec...
This book is an essential guide written for all students and practitioners of Reflexology. Completely revised, the new edition includes a two-colour design to further enhance its user-friendly approach. It provides extensive coverage and a balanced account of the fundamentals of practice in one readable and accessible volume. The new edition includes a full-colour chart of the feet at th...
Acupuncture: Visible Holism provides a theoretical complement to currently available guides to the clinical practice of acupuncture.The author presents the groundbreaking concept of acupuncture as "visible holism," as well as an entirely new theory concerning the origins of acupuncture, the identification of the meridians, and the discovery of the acupoints.Acupuncture: Visible Holis...
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 conditions encountered, their diagnosis an...
Since most diabetics usually rely on pharmacotherapy without due attention to non-pharmacotherapies, their condition is often aggravated rapidly which brings not only adverse impact on their physical and mental health but also a burden on their families. This book concentrates on such non-pharmacotherapies as psychotherapy, kinesitherapy, Qigong therapy, acupuncture and moxibustion thera...
Presents basic principles needed to understand human kinesiology and pathokinesiology, and discusses new research and hypotheses in the field. Material is organized around general principles of structure and function that are then applied to individual joint complexes using a cephalo-caudal, proximal-distal approach. Concepts developed in earlier chapters are integrated with and applied ...
Throughout history, acupuncture has provided painless, low-cost, non-invasive relief for conditions ranging from back pain and headaches to cancer and AIDS. As Americans seck viable, costeffective health care alternatives, the benefits of acupuncture are gaining new respect in the West. In this guide, Marie Cargill, a licensed acupuncturist, demystifies acupuncture explaining: how and wh...
Ayurvedic Acupuncture is based upon the Suchi Veda, a 3,000 year old Vedic text which in the Ayurvedic system is the Science of Acupuncture. It has been practiced as an accessory therapy since it was used in conjunction with other forms to effect healing. It belongs more correctly to the branch of surgery, one of the eight medical disciplines of Ayurveda.
