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Massage Books Anatomy | Myofascial Release | Trigger Points | Muscle Energy Techniques | Structural Bodywork | Sports Massage | Kinesiology | Movement Work | CranioSacral | |
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Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists. 2nd Edition. Understanding the role of fascia in healthy movement and postural distortion is of vital importance to bodyworkers and movement therapists. Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists presents a unique ‘whole systems’ view of myofascial/ locomotor anatomy in which the bodywide connections among the muscles within the fascial net are described in detail for the first time. Using the metaphor of railway or train lines, Myers explains how patterns of strain communicate through the myofascial ‘webbing’, contributing to postural compensation and movement stability. Written in a style that makes it easy to understand and apply. Anatomy Trains provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the anatomy and function of the myofascial system in the body. The new edition includes a DVD ROM containing video of techniques, Anatomy Trains-based dissections and computer animations of the myofascial meridian lines.
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Modalities for Massage and Bodywork
Discover the modalities that are right for your clients. Gain a better understanding of the top modalities in massage practice with expert insight and a balanced, user-friendly approach! This current, consistently organized resource distills a wealth of information on 21 popular massage modalities into easy-to-read overviews detailing the essential principles behind each therapy. Identify the modalities that best apply to your clients, incorporate key concepts into your practice, and take the first steps toward specialization all with one helpful text! * Leading experts lend years of valuable knowledge and experience across a wide spectrum of massage modalities including prenatal, deep tissue, myofascial release, shiatsu, craniosacral, reflexology, and more. * A companion DVD demonstrates proper techniques for 7 top modalities with over 100 minutes of detailed video footage. |
$99 |
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Trail Guide to the Body Textbook: How to locate muscles, bones and more. THIRD EDITION! by Andrew BielBefore you can assess or treat a muscle, you first must be able to locate it on the body. This acclaimed book, used in more than 1,700 manual therapy schools, is designed as a hands-on tour that will teach you to palpate the body's structure with ease and precision. With 420 pages and 1,100 illustrations covering more than 144 muscles, 206 bones, 30 ligaments and 110 bony landmarks, this text provides an invaluable map of the body. Whether you are a massage therapist, physical therapist, sports trainer or student in any bodywork modality, Trail Guide to the Body is for you! |
$109 This book is in-stock, can be delivered immediately
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Trail Guide to the Body Student Handbook
If you want to differentiate your psoas from your scalenes or just want to ace the next quiz, you'll find the answer here. This handbook follows the chapters and structures as they are arranged in the Trail Guide to the Body textbook. A resourceful complement, this handbook contains 220 pages and 450 illustrations. It offers a variety of questions and exercises including fill-in-the-blanks, drawings to color, illustrations and matching exercises. A fun learning tool that will test a student's Trail Guide knowledge as well as prepare you for national exams.
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The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual
with Trigger Points, Referral Patterns, and Stretching With more than 1,000 vibrant, full-color illustrations and over 4 hours of detailed video demonstrations, THE MUSCLE AND BONE PALPATION MANUAL is the most visually engaging way to help you master and successfully apply palpation techniques in massage therapy. This innovative text uses unique, richly detailed photographic illustrations of muscles as they appear under the skin to give you a thorough understanding of effective palpation. This comprehensive guide provides unparalleled preparation for professional success. No other book offers as much to you as The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual. It contains the most thorough and clear palpation methods accompanied by the highest quality illustrations possible, and it includes a 2-DVD set demonstrating the palpations, too! Further, it offers a complete set of stretches and trigger point illustrations for the skeletal muscles of the body. With chapters on how to palpate, how to stretch, and understanding trigger points, a complete coverage of the ligaments, a compendium of all major massage strokes and draping methods, and a thorough chapter on body mechanics, The Muscle and Bone Palpation Manual will easily take the place of three or four books needed in your library.
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The Muscular System Manual, 3rd Edition The Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body The Muscular System Manual by Dr. Joseph E. Muscolino makes the study of musculoskeletal anatomy easier and more engaging with a highly visual approach! This innovative, vibrantly illustrated atlas details the muscles and bones of the human body with unrivaled clarity and helps you build the strong anatomic understanding needed for success in practice. Feature: A full-color, student-friendly design with special icons that direct you to the CD and Evolve site, and checkboxes that help you to keep track of what you need to learn and what you have mastered. Notes on Functions section explains each muscle’s mover, antagonist, and stabilization functions to help you learn and retain content instead of just memorizing it.
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Palpation & Assessment Skills: Assessment through Touch by Leon Chaitow
(3rd Edition, 2010) The famous Palpation Skills has been designed and developed to help the reader to understand and acquire the palpatory skills which are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. Sensitivity of touch and the accurate interpretation of palpatory tests are required from the start of training in any of the manual therapy professions. It is difficult to learn these from written descriptions or static illustrations alone. By combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations and audio explanations on a CD-Rom, Palpation Skills provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time. This book will be of practical use to every manual therapist and practitioner at all stages of their professional development.
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Stretching Anatomy
is the only book that provides fully detailed anatomical images of each muscle during any stretch; it is like having a full-color X-ray for every stretch. It shows exactly how to reap the benefits of stretching with detailed instruction on changing positions to alter the muscle emphasis and improving safety and effectiveness. See inside every stretch—and maximize flexibility! Stretching Anatomy will arm you with the knowledge to increase range of motion, supplement training, enhance recovery, and maximize efficiency of movement. You’ll also gain a detailed understanding of how each stretch affects your body. |
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Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage by Darien PritchardA recent survey in Australia showed that more than 40% of massage therapists suffer serious wrist and thumb problems. The most significant cause of early retirement from the massage profession is the cumulative strain on the body developed in the course of performing the work. Written by noted teacher and trainer Darien Pritchard, this useful book explains those aspects of massage that can lead to these problems and shows how to apply pressure in ways that avoid them. The focus is on how to use the body safely and effectively. The author explores the benefits of involving the whole body to generate the power and movement that support the hands, saving the hands by using them skillfully, and conserving them by using other body areas such as the forearms and elbow whenever possible. Featuring 2,000 illustrations, Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage is essential reading for anyone involved in massage, whether a student, a professional massage practitioner or teacher, sports massage therapist, or aromatherapist.
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Anatomy of Movement by Blandine
Calais-Germain (Revised Edition) Anatomy of Movement presents a dynamic, integrated approach to the study of the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system and their functional relationship to the movements of the human body. In clear and concise text illustrated with more than a thousand graphic drawings, the author guides the reader on a lively tour of the muscles, bones, ligaments and joints of the arms, legs and trunk. The focus throughout the book is on anatomy not for its own sake, but in its functional relationship to the actual movements of the body in dance, exercise and other physical disciplines.
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Anatomy of Movement: Exercises (Revised Edition)
Blandine Calais-Germain Andrée Lamotte Anatomy of Movement: Exercises, the companion volume to Anatomy of Movement, describes and illustrates, through hundreds of photographs and drawings, a comprehensive series of exercises involving the most common movements of the body. Over a hundred new illustrations were added in this revised edition. The exercises were chosen on the basis of their effectiveness and with concern for their safety. Some are designed to focus on strengthening a particular region or muscle group, others the entire body. Each exercise prepares the body to respond well to the demands of particular movements. Together they serve as a basis for the more specialized movements associated with various physical disciplines and therapies.
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Anatomy of Breathing by Blandine Calais-Germain
Everyone breathes, yet few of us understand how to consciously control breathing to improve our well-being and the quality of many daily activities. Anatomy of Breathing is a clear and helpful guide to both the theory and practice of breathing in its many variations. Hundreds of expert drawings along with easy-to-understand text help you explore just how breathing works. Once you’re acquainted with the principal organs, structures, and forces that affect breathing, you will learn how to control them to enhance the quality and variety of breathing in your own life. Along the way, you will also correct many common misconceptions about breathing. Anatomy of Breathing is filled with helpful practice pages. Here you will learn simple exercises to prepare your body for the benefits of different types of breathing. You will then be shown, step by step, how to practice some of the most common and useful breathing techniques on your own. Anatomy of Breathing is a unique and wonderful resource for anyone who wishes to understand the science and art of breathing, and how to make their own breathing better and more life-enhancing.
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The Female Pelvis: Anatomy & Exercises by Blandine Calais-Germain The female pelvis and its contents are an underappreciated region of the anatomy. Important not only for sexuality, they are also central to the processes of childbirth and elimination. The Female Pelvis was written for women to use over the course of their lives, with a special emphasis on pregnancy, childbirth, and its aftermath. Its purpose is to help women become more familiar with the pelvis and its related structures, and how to keep them healthy and fit. The book begins with a description of the functional anatomy of the pelvis, and how it responds to pregnancy and childbirth. This is followed by a series of specific exercises, initially for self-discovery, and then to increase the flexibility, strength, and coordination of each of the pelvic functions. The book concludes with some guidelines which focus on the pelvis during different phases of a woman's life.
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Chris Jarmey, The Concise Book of Muscles
This book has been written for practitioner of anatomy, massage / bodywork, physical therapy, chiropractic, medicine, physiotherapy, or any other health-related field. Containing full-color illustrations, it is a compact reference guide, clearly identifying all the major muscles, showing the origin, insertion, action, and innervation of each muscle. The book also uniquely illustrates examples of stretching and strengthening exercises for each muscle, allowing the reader to develop an understanding of the mechanics of movement.
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Deane Juhan. Job's Body. A
Handbook for Bodywork This virtually indispensable guide to massage and bodywork is now available in an expanded third edition. Possibly the most famous and widely used single resource in the field of bodywork (required for national certification in massage therapy in the US), this beautifully written book gives a richly detailed picture of how and why the body responds to therapeutic touch. A reader-friendly yet scientifically reliable and detailed introduction to the human body, this updated edition (including new introductory and supplemental material) surveys “bodywork,” showing how its practices alter deep-seated patterns of body and mind. For general reader as much as professional and student interested in the body-mind and not wanting a dry, clinical presentation, this is the book.
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Louis R. Schultz, Rosemary Feitis, Diana Salles, Ronald Thompson The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality
This is a definitive text on the fascia, the organ of
structure, it presents a comprehensive guide to working effectively with
the myofascial system, the "packing material" of the body. This fully
illustrated guide helps you understand how fascia works, what its role
is within the body's anatomy, and how gentle manipulation of the
myofascial tissue is central to lasting therapeutic intervention. This
book also explores the multi faceted influence fascia has on our ever
changing structures, from the embryo to the adult.
It is the result of more than two decades of research and practice,
The Endless Web present in clear, readable language a comprehensive
guide to understanding and working effectively with the myofascial
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Myofascial
Stretching: A Guide to Self-Treatment by Jill Morton
and Brenda Pardy This book is written for both the lay person who has chronic pain, muscular tightness and/or postural dysfunction; and also for therapists to use to recommend home exercise programs for their patients. The book follows the principles of Myofascial Release as developed by John F. Barnes, PT. The techniques utilize sustained pressure and elongation into restrictions in the fascia (connective tissue system) of the body. Two ways to do Myofascial Stretching are included: one using a 4-inch inflatable ball and one utilizing active elongation. The two methods complement each other, especially when one first releases an area of tightness with the ball and then follows up with an active elongation stretch to the same area. The twelve sections of the book relate to different parts of the body and there is a chart to help decide where to start depending on diagnosis and symptoms. |
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The Myofascial Release Manual, 4th
Edition
The Myofascial Release Manual is now available in a completely updated and comprehensive Fourth Edition 2008. Continuing the tradition that started over 20 years ago and with a new focus on the current terminology regarding each technique. This book has a user-friendly format that concentrates on the specific "how-to's" of the myofascial techniques, as well as offering an explanation of the theory and experience of the method of Myofascial Release. The book begins by presenting the basic learning steps of the techniques, then takes the reader into the advanced techniques and evaluations. Additional resources such as posture evaluation forms and references are included at the end of the book, to augment the value of this superior learning tool.
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Fascial Manipulation by Luigi Stecco The fascia, with both its macroscopic and microscopic structure, is the map that can help to orientate any research into the origin of locomotor apparatus’ disorders. This book, which is the outcome of thousands of treatments carried out over the last twenty-five years, provides the necessary guidelines for reading this map. Up until now, perhaps due to its intrinsic complexity, the role of the fascia has been relegated to that of containment. The book illustrates: the connections of the fascia with muscles, bones, articulations and nerves (anatomy of the fascia), the coordinating function of the fascia with regards to all components of the locomotor apparatus (physiology of the fascia), the way to manipulate densified or condensed fascia in order to restore it to its physiological state (treatment of the fascia). This new vision of the anatomy, physiology and histology of the fascia allows one to have an effect on soft tissue dysfunctions in an efficient and long-lasting manner.
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Fascial Manipulation - Practical Part by Luigi Stecco & Carla Stecco Welcome to an exciting new field in musculoskeletal therapy: the fascinating world of fascia. This manual provides practical techniques to facilitate the treatment of the fascia. It describes the topographical location of all the points, the respective movement tests and the modality of treatment for each point. In order to manipulate the fascia it is essential to know the exact location of the points, to perform the movement examinations correctly and to position the patient appropriately for each treatment. This new book will help all of those engaged in learning the method of Fascial Manipulation© to obtain satisfactory results in their clinical practices, as well as improving comprehension of the anatomical substratum of the superficial, deep and epimysial fascia because, as we like to say, only a knowledgeable hand is potent or “Manus sapiens potens est”. This new book published 2009 is specially imported from Italy, is in Hard Cover, full colour, 364 pages, with more than 200 colour photographs.
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Art Riggs,
Deep Tissue
Massage. A Visual Guide to Technique (Revised Edition) With 288 pages, more than 250 photographs and over 50 detailed anatomy illustrations, this in depth book clearly illustrates hundreds of effective therapeutic myofascial release techniques. This book presents a wealth of information in a way the therapist can immediately utilize. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a preface to the new edition, a foreword by Tom Myers, an index, a Suggested Reading list, and extended sections on integrating deep tissue massage into bodywork practice and the psychology of treating injuries. Art Riggs' writing is clear & easy to understand way, putting together all the basics and techniques, also presenting treatment to major injuries . The first part of the book focuses on touch: the quality of touch, how to cultivate, and aspects that define touch. The Second part is on general techniques, and proper use of fingers, knuckles, fist, forearm, and elbow. The third part is on specific strategies on different parts of the body. Each technique is accompanied by beautiful anatomical drawings. The fourth part is addressing common complaint and injuries. Finally Art gives his personal view and advice on massage as a career and how to enjoy and develop your work. This book is not a recipe book to be followed blindly, but with proper training can be moulded to your style, your personality, and the needs of your clients so that you may express your own unique creativity while deepening your practice. |
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Erik Dalton's Advanced Myoskeletal
Techniques Textbook
Erik Dalton's Advanced Myoskeletal Techniques will revolutionize your approach to treating complex pain and injury conditions. The 325 page colorfully illustrated book eloquently blends exciting new muscle/joint research with eighty innovative hands-on techniques…a perfect addition to any sports medicine, structural integration or medical massage practice. Additional contributions from manual therapy leaders such as Aaron Mattes, Whitney Lowe and Ross Pope, DO enhance this intelligent, user-friendly text making it a great boon of reading for the professional, passionate therapist. |
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Serge Paoletti, The Fasciae: Anatomy, Dysfunction and Treatment
The fasciae comprise a wide variety of body tissues including the membranes, ligaments, tendons, and mesenteries. These tissues are all derived from the mesoderm, which undergoes coiling or rolling movements during embryonic development. This is the origin of the inherent micro-movements, or motility, that are so important in many osteopathic approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The Fasciae is the first book to organize the wealth of available information concerning fascial tissues from the fields of embryology, anatomy, histology, and pathology. It describes the roles and mechanisms of the fasciae, and details appropriate testing and treatment techniques. The book is richly illustrated with 157 colour and black and white drawings throughout. |
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Fascial and Membrane Technique. A manual for comprehensive treatment of the connective tissue system. by Peter Schwind, PhD The Fascial and Membrane Technique developed by Peter Schwind combines the fundamental thoughts from Ida Rolf´s Structural Integration with concepts of Osteopathy. With this a successful combination of form-stabilising and mobilising techniques has emerged. Due to this holistic approach the concept will appeal to all manual working therapists. The main emphasis of this book is on diagnostic and treatment of the breathing patterns manifest in the myofascial system; minimalistic as well as global application joint techniques; visceral techniques in the myofascial context; and special treatment techniques in the craniosacral area, eg for mandibular joint dysfunction, care of the upper jaw after implants and for the after effects of a whiplash injury. |
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Jeffrey Maitland,
Spinal Manipulation Made Simple: A Manual of Soft Tissue Techniques
Written for soft-tissue practitioners, this manual gives thorough instructions on how to elegantly and easily release joint restrictions in the spine, sacrum, pelvis, and ribs using soft-tissue techniques rather than high velocity, low amplitude thrusting techniques that "pop" the joints. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, it also provides one of the easiest to understand explanations of biomechanics in print. Using myofascial release, Jeff reveals techniques for releasing joint fixations at the root of common soft-tissue pain syndromes. restrictions in the facets. Jeff with his philosophy background is ingenious in writing, reader is able to follow complicated routines as a story. Jeff first explained the spinal mechanics, testing procedures, then unveils various secrets of releasing joint fixations at cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum & ribcage, from indirect unwinding to more direct facet challenging techniques. A special focus is given on back pain. Jeffrey's skill in storytelling truly made readers to be able to follow the techniques as simple as possible. |
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Harmonic Healing. A Guide to Facilitated Oscillatory Release and Other Rhythmic Myofascial Techniquesby Zachary ComeauxConnective tissue release, or myofascial release, is a major component of manual therapies, including osteopathic medicine. Most methods involve placing the patient in a passive, relaxed position for diagnosis and treatment. However, many practitioners have intuitively sensed that rhythmic motion should be a component of therapy, and increasingly include it in their practice. Harmonic Healing introduces such an application of connective tissue principles, which author Dr. Zachary Comeaux calls Facilitated Oscillatory Release (FOR). |
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Conrad A. Speece William Thomas Crow Steven L. Simmons
Ligamentous Articular Strain: Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques for the Body Ligamentous articular strain is the name given by William G. Sutherland, D.O., the founder of cranial osteopathy, to a group of techniques that he used for treating the body outside the core axis of the craniosacral system. The term has since come to refer to a wide variety of techniques including myofascial release that engage the body's own healing mechanisms in a relatively direct manner. For over thirty years the Dallas Osteopathic Study Group, originally under the tutelage of Rollin Becker, D.O., has been exploring this type of manipulation. Ligamentous Articular Strain is the distillation of their work. The introductory chapters address the historical development of this approach, and review some of its scientific underpinnings. The remaining chapters are devoted to an examination of the body, area by area, from the feet to the shoulders, describing and depicting effective manipulative techniques including myofascial release.
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Simeon Niel-Asher , The
Concise Book of Trigger Points, 2nd edition This practical manual explains how to treat chronic pain through trigger points — those tender, painful nodules that form in muscle fibers and connective tissues. Organized by muscle groups, the book emphasizes hands-on techniques for bringing immediate relief by stimulating the flow of oxygen to the trigger point. Each two-page spread features detailed colour illustrations on one side and straightforward text on the other identifying each muscle's origin, insertion, action, and function. In addition, the author discusses the physiological implications of the trigger points in each muscle, and techniques for treatment. Simeon Niel-Asher is an osteopath who has been working primarily with trigger point therapy for the past fifteen years, having learned this craft from one the UK's most eminent practitioners.
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The Concise Book of Neuromuscular Therapy by John SharkeyNeuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is an innovative healing approach that combines the best soft tissue manipulation techniques of osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, trigger point therapy, and other fields. NMT uses massage techniques and flexibility stretching to balance the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, and eliminate the causes of neuromuscular pain. The therapy consists of using the fingers, knuckles, or elbow to apply alternating levels of pressure, which relax the affected muscles and increase circulation. This treatment enhances muscle and joint function, and can be combined with other modalities as part of a comprehensive program.Read More details
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Clair Davies, Amber Davies
The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment for Pain Relief Trigger Points made simple. Clair Davies summarised the Travell &
Simons' trigger points in this book, and also includes methods to treat
yourself. If you can't afford Travell & Simons this is a very good
substitute. Affordable & covers all the aspects. The Trigger Point
Therapy Workbook is founded on Travell and Simons’s research, but it’s
Travell and Simons made easy. Sixteen-hundred pages of difficult medical
language have been reduced to a concise, easy-to-read 323 pages, while
retaining all the essentials of trigger point science.
With the aid of 376 illustrations, you’re shown in detail how to find
and self-treat trigger points in 120 pairs of muscles throughout the
body. Nine medical doctors have approved and endorsed The Trigger Point
Therapy Workbook, and Dr. David Simons himself wrote the Foreword. The
Trigger Point Therapy Workbook will help you find your trigger points
and show you how to work on them in the most effective and efficient
way. If conventional medical treatment or physical therapy aren’t giving
you the relief you need, your salvation may lie in self-applied trigger
point massage. |
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Clair Davies, The Frozen Shoulder Workbook Author Clair Davies’s success in treating his own frozen shoulder led him to undertake an extensive study of trigger points and referred pain that eventually resulted in his runaway best-seller, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook. Now this renowned bodywork expert and educator revisits the subject of frozen shoulder, offering the most detailed and comprehensive manual yet available about this painful and debilitating condition —a useful resource for self-care and for bodywork practitioners looking to expand their treatment repertoire. Frozen shoulder, the syndrome name for several muscle, joint, and tendon-related symptoms, is experienced as pain and a loss of motion in the shoulder and upper arm. Frozen shoulder is most often observed in women between the ages of forty and sixty and in individuals with type-two diabetes, although a man or woman of any age may be afflicted. Traditional medical treatments for frozen shoulder, which rely on painkillers, steroid injections, surgery, manipulation under anesthesia, and physical therapy, often do little to moderate symptoms or speed recovery. Include: New Techniques: Self-Treatment —fix your own shoulder! Partner Treatment —friends and family can help . Clinical Treatment —for doctors and therapists. |
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Trigger Point Therapy for
Headaches & Migraines - Your Self -Treatment Workbook for Pain Relief By
Valerie DeLaune
"I have such a bad headache!" For many of us, this is an oft-repeated cry of anguish. Statistics about headaches and migraines are so far-reaching: One in six people have chronic headache pain, and one in ten also suffer from migraines, a specific type of headache. Headaches and migraines result in more than 10 million doctor visits each year. This book is welcome relief to the millions who struggle daily with headache. It develops trigger point therapy into an effective self-care approach for relief from headache pain. |
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Leon Chaitow, ND, DO and Sandy Fritz, MS, NCTMB A Massage Therapist's Guide to Understanding, Locating and Treating Myofascial Trigger Points This guide offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand, evidence-based explanation of myofascial trigger points. Information is presented in a simple format, with short explanatory paragraphs, bullet-point summaries, numerous line drawings and photographs, key concepts boxes in each chapter, and a full glossary. The book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains video clips demonstrating the palpation and treatment methods described within the text.
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A MASSAGE THERAPIST'S GUIDE TO LOWER BACK AND PELVIC PAIN This book describes in detail the background to the evolution of "non-specific" backache as well as the assessment and treatment methods ideal for use in combination with massage therapy, deriving from physical therapy, osteopathic, and chiropractic sources. The book describes these methods individually and then integrates them into a detailed description of a massage session focusing on the person with backache. This unique book takes care to consider the needs of the massage therapist, who previously may have had to adapt his/her own methodology from descriptions aimed at other health care professionals. This book includes a DVD-ROM with videos demonstration pf real-life examples of the palpation and treatment methods. 256 pages 183 ills, plus DVD-ROM. |
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A Massage Therapist's Guide to Treating Headaches and Neck Pain
The massage therapist's guide to treating headaches and neck pain is a practical guide for the massage therapist to assist them in identifying appropriate massage treatment for those experiencing headaches and neck pain. The book describes the most common headache types and causes for neck pain that can be effectively addressed with therapeutic massage and associated methods easily incorporated into massage. Assessment procedures are provided both to identify appropriate treatment and to alert the massage therapist to more serious conditions that could be responsible for the symptoms and require a referral for further diagnosis and treatment. Protocols for treatment using massage and other soft tissue methods are provided. The text is written in a practical way that is user friendly. Incorporates a DVD demonstrating the palpation and treatment methods. |
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The Dorn-Method E-book by Thomas Zudrell
A Yes to Self-Responsibility and a No to
Back Pain.
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USD $9.95 Note this is an electronic book, purchasing this item means downloading the pdf file of the book |
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Leon Chaitow, Muscle Energy
Techniques (3rd Edition) with DVD-ROM This comprehensive text describes the basis and practice of Muscle Energy Techniques (MET), a widely recognized approach to treating musculoskeletal dysfunction. It describes those manipulative techniques in which a patient, on request, actively uses his or her muscles from a controlled position in a specific direction against a distinct counterforce applied by the practitioner. Although some may already familiar with MET, they are unaware of its many potential applications. These techniques are combined from methods used in physical therapy, osteopathy, chiropractic and manual medicine. A companion DVD includes the full text and video clips demonstrating the application of techniques. |
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Kathy L. Kain
Ortho-Bionomy. A Practical Manual
This Is the first book on Ortho-Bionomy, a bodywork technique which is quickly gaining popularity among laypeople and therapists from all bodywork disciplines. Kathy Kain gives clear descriptions of the philosophy and concepts of Ortho-Bionomy. The illustrations and easy-to-understand technical instructions show the standard releases taught in Ortho-Bionomy classes. The student is guided from the beginning of a session to the end, in learning this gentle, effective approach to somatic re-education. Ortho-Bionomy’s primary benefit lies in helping people to break the cycle of pain by learning how to correct structural and somatic dysfunction and to release stress. This non-invasive, quick-acting approach is an effective preparation for mobilization, movement and therapeutic exercise. |
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Ortho-Bionomy, A Path to Self-Care by Luann Overmyer Ortho-Bionomy is based on the premise that the body inherently knows how to heal and self-correct, given the opportunity. This user-friendly self-help guide by one of the pioneers of the approach presents positions, postures, and movements designed to release tension and ease pain. Not only are the techniques simple to perform, but they can be done on one’s own, without the use of special equipment. Positions for each part of the body are clearly described in lay terms and illustrated with photos and drawings. Selected topics include low back, hip and knee pain, neck, shoulder, and rib releases, repetitive strain injuries, and arthritic pain in the hands. Quick fixes for sciatica, suggestions for dealing with menstrual cramps, and gentle movement exercises to address posture, scoliosis, and flexibility of the spine are just a few among 150 techniques described. Read more infor & order here |
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200 pages 130 illustrations, DVD-ROM with full texts & videos |
Positional Release Techniques by
Leon Chaitow Positional Release Techniques, 3rd Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of all methods of spontaneous release by positioning. A comprehensive textbook covering all methods of spontaneous release by positioning. The background theory is explained and the techniques described in detail. The descriptions of the techniques are supplemented in the text by clear 2-colour line drawings and photographs and the DVD-ROM provides additional explanation through the use of video demonstrations with narrative by the author. |
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Whitney Lowe,
Orthopedic Massage: Theory and Technique
. 2nd edition Orthopaedics or Orthopedics (US) according to the Oxford dictionary is “branch of medicine dealing with the correction of diseased, deformed or injured bones and muscles”. Whitney Lowe defined orthopedic massage as a broad spectrum of techniques and approaches to treat soft-tissue dysfunction. And this is the main objective of this book to present symptoms of soft-tissue dysfunction and injuries, the cause and the treatment. This is A definitive and accessible resource for all those wanting to use of massage therapy to treat pain and injury conditions, Orthopedic Massage has been written for those interested in understanding and applying massage as an intervention for soft-tissue disorders. The massage techniques used is an integration of trigger point, myofascial, deep transverse friction, and muscle energy techniques. This book is divided into two sections: the general principles, and regional approach to pathology and treatment. The first part run through the general principles the soft tissue injuries, specific massage techniques and its physiological effects. The regional approach describes the pathology of injuries to specific parts of the body. Each type of injuries is systematically described under the following heading: description, treatment, and cautions and contraindications. Most common injuries are described thoroughly. This is not only a bible of injuries, but also contains useful soft tissue manipulation. Chapter 13 summarizes injuries which are not specific to a part of the body but can be more ‘general’ such as muscle strains, ligament sprains, forward head posture etc. This is a very useful reference for massage therapist for treating injuries. |
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