Product Description
Principles and Practice of Manual Therapeutics provides comprehensive coverage of the full array of manipulative techniques and their therapeutic applications to common and un-common diseases and/or syndromes. As a volume in a series of books concerning complementary and alternative medicine, Principles and Practices of Manual Therapeutics deals exclusively with the most commonly used forms of manual therapeutics. The book is an overview of the principal manual therapies practiced worldwide, the theories and rationales, and practice algorithms, with contacts and resources for further study. The techniques utilized in more traditional Western therapies (e.g., physiatry, physical therapy), while using many of the principles of complementary therapies, will not be included in this volume due to their conventional nature. The overall goal of the book is to give the reader brief, yet thorough, coverage of alternative and complementary hands-on therapies.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the full array of manual techniques, with applications to common & uncommon
- disorders
- Organized by therapy for easy access to information
- Includes popular therapies such as Healing Touch/Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, and Massage
- Coverage spans both Eastern and Western schools of thought
- Contributors represent the highest levels of each discipline and are recognized experts in the field
- Format is uniform for each chapter, which includes a history of the system, technique or method; basic principles and language; the specific techniques performed by practitioners; the educational background of practitioners; and applicable basic and clinical research
- Appendix provides contacts, resources, and references for each therapeutic modality, allowing the reader to engage in further investigation
- Serves as a vocabulary/lexicon of manual therapies.
