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Cyriax's Illustrated Manual of Orthopaedic Medicine

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As a practicing physical therapist I always tend to increase my abilities in the field.This book gives anybody interested in orthopaedic/manual medicine the extended knowledge about how to examine and treat patients with motion apparatus' problems.Some says that Cyriax's point of view on manual therapy was very controversive but there had been nobody who trained so many famous therapists as he did.The book,its containess,should be considered an esensive complement of education in the orthopaedic and manual therapy's field.I reccomend!

The Cyriax system is used extensively in the Netherlands for the treatment of spinal injuries. As a patient, I can attest that in 20 to 30 minutes, using this system my therapist would remove the pressure from my herniated disks, massage away the inflamation from the surrounding tissue, properly align my vertebrae to allow blood to flow into my leg, completey removing my pain though I would often enter his office on crutches. After two months of treatments I was symptom free until I reinjured myself in an industrial accident. I'm not exaggerating. I haven't been able to find anyone in Southern California who knows this system as they do in Europe which led me here where I can purchase the book myself. If you're a chiropractor or physical therapist and you really want to help your patients, you need to know this.

This is a well known and fundamental text for everybody concerned in Orthopedics and Physical Medicine, expecially in the field of pain therapy. In this book the Author lavishes his large experience mainly in setting the proper grounds for the technique of joint injections, with both precision and clarity, helped by a large number of very impressive images. I learned very much from it in my clinical activity, until somebody stole it from my bookcase! (It is at the moment unobtainable in Italy, but fortunately Amazon helped me!)