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A Massage Therapist's Guide to Lower Back & Pelvic Pain
- 1st Edition - November 19, 2007
- Authors: Leon Chaitow, Sandy Fritz
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 5 1 0 0 - 5
A Massage Therapist’s Guide to Lower Back and Pelvic Pain describes in detail the background to the evolution of “non-specific” backache as well as the assessment and treatment… Read more
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Request a sales quote- Abundant illustrations enrich the text and bring content to life to make it easily understandable.
- Bulleted point text and summaries allow the reader to quickly find information and review important content.
- Easy-reference format and accessible language help break down concepts.
- Accompanying website [previously a DVD] demonstrates real-life examples of the palpation and treatment methods.
2. Imposter back pain
3. How much pain is there, where is it, and where might it be coming from?
4. Back pain – palpation, observation and assessment approaches
5. Pelvic pain
6. Modalities working with massage
7. Outcome based massage
8. Prevention and rehabilitation: core stability and breathing retraining
9. Prevention
10. Other methods – summary of systems, methods and modalities used in manual treatment of back pain
- No. of pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 19, 2007
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- eBook ISBN: 9780702051005
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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.
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