
Positional Release Techniques
includes access to www.chaitowpositionalrelease.com
Description
Key Features
- Emphasises safety and usefulness in both acute and chronic settings
- Comprehensive coverage of all methods of spontaneous release by positioning
- Easy to follow and extensively illustrated
- Balanced synopsis of concepts and clinical-approach models throughout
- Learning supported by problem-solving clinical descriptions and practical exercises in the book as well as videos and downloadable images on the companion website - www.chaitowpositionalrelease.com
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface to the third edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations1. Spontaneous release by positioning
2. Somatic dysfunction and positional release
3. Strain/counterstrain research
Christopher Kevin Wong4. Counterstrain models of positional release
5. Functional and facilitated positional release approaches, including cranial methods
6. Positional release methods in special situations
7. Positional release and fascia
8. Balanced ligamentous tension techniques
Raymond J. Hruby9. Visceral positional release: the counterstrain model
Edward Goering10. Overview of the McKenzie method
Anthony J. Lisi11. ‘Offloading’ taping to reduce pain and facilitate movement
Dylan Morrissey12. Application of positional techniques in the treatment of animals
J. Brooks and †A. G. Pusey
Product details
- No. of pages: 272
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2015
- Published: September 22, 2015
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780702068461
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702051111
About the Author
Leon Chaitow
Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner’s Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.