Frequency Specific Microcurrent in Pain Management
- 1st Edition - December 3, 2010
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Authors: Leon Chaitow, Carolyn McMakin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 0 6 9 7 6 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 9 2 5 - 5
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Request a sales quoteThis comprehensive text describes the origins, mechanisms, beneficial applications and practical details of frequency specific therapy - a treatment technique that uses frequencies, micro amperage current and the principles of biological resonance to treat pain and a wide range of medical conditions. It includes condition specific frequency protocols for the treatment of various pain complaints, and multi-center clinical case reports documenting successful application of the technique. Each section includes a review of condition pathophysiology and differential diagnosis, plus current research. A website http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780443069765 features a lecture from the author, practical demonstrations of techniques, fully searchable text and downloadable images from the book!
Physical Therapists, Manual Therapists, Medical Physicians, Neuromuscular and myofascial therapists, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Acupunturists.This book is intended for practitioners with degrees in medicine, physical and occupational therapy, chiropratic, osteopathy, naturopathy, advance massage therapy, myofascial therapy, acupunture and any lisense that permits or does not prevent the use of microcurrent electrical stimulation devices on patients.
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 3, 2010
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- No. of pages: 264
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443069765
- eBook ISBN: 9780702049255
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Leon Chaitow
Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Registered Osteopath and Naturopath; Honorary Fellow and Former Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK; Fellow, British Naturopathic Association.; Fellow, College of Osteopaths, UKCM
Carolyn McMakin
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Director Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Clinic of Portland, President Frequency Specific Seminars, USA