Here's your complete guide to managing low back pain. This Sixth Edition features eight years of completely updated research by Dr. Cox...all resulting in this comprehensive source for diagnosis and treatment. Extensive algorithms of decision making are featured representing the standard of care in distraction adjusting. New chapters include: / History, development and acceptance of dist...

Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.

The human pelvis has recently become a focus for a considerable amount of new research which is relevant to manual therapy practice. In particular, movement within the pelvis is now being recognised and studied in relation to its role in maintaining stability in the vertebral column and subsequent implications for the prevention and treatment of low back pain.

An outstandingly successful and internationally acclaimed work from Mr Grieve. The text provides sweeping coverage of manipulative work in the spinomusculoskeletal field, from practical, clinical aspects to the wider medical and surgical perspective.

Therapists trying too hard to appeal to their uncooperative adolescent clients risk losing cases before they are even underway. These kids are quick to pick up on the therapist who struggles to be helpful, be liked, make conversation, and not upset. So worried is the therapist about saying the "wrong" thing, he or she may wind up saying too little that is useful. The client withdraws int...

Children who have been traumatized and who cannot talk about their experiences-either because they have pledged their silence or because they do not know the words-will subconsciously call for help through their art. The development of the "human figure drawing" (HFD) and the "kinetic family drawing" (KFD) and their scoring systems has brought a standardization to the interview of these ...

Gracie hasn't left her house in thirty years out of fear she'll be contaminated. Jerry spent hours each day picking up debris on the subway platform. Norm's bridge phobia led him into alcoholism messed up his marriage and alienated his children. David - bright, young, ambitious - feared he'd lose his job because he so dreaded giving sales presentations. These are some of the people examp...

Minor Injuries is a unique and accessible guide to the clinical examination and treatment of minor injuries. It brings essential knowledge and skills together in a single text. A comprehensive range of conditions likely to present in each area is described with clear instructions on examination, as well as guidelines on whether to treat or refer. The effective treatments for most injurie...

Presents basic principles needed to understand human kinesiology and pathokinesiology, and discusses new research and hypotheses in the field. Material is organized around general principles of structure and function that are then applied to individual joint complexes using a cephalo-caudal, proximal-distal approach. Concepts developed in earlier chapters are integrated with and applied ...

The technique has played an important part in my life, not only as a guide to physical management and health, but because I am by temperament disposed to examine and probe its psychological aspects. What Alexander called "inhibition", abandonment of bodily effort and conscious management which some other techniques call "non-doing", has helped me through many a difficult situation. A wri...

Alliance de la perception manuelle subjective et de la visualisation expérimentale objective, cet ouvrage représente deux ans de travail et une centaine d'examens échographiques analysés et comparés aux impressions palpatoires de praticiens manuels expérimentés. Cette étude a permis d'établir une théorie sur la physiopathologie du mouvement utérin mobilisé par la pulsion diaphragmatique ...