Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Studio: Churchill Livingstone
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0443058512
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #572,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Muscle Energy Techniques (MET) are manipulative treatments in which a patient, on request, actively uses his or her muscles from a controlled position in a specific direction against a distinct counterforce.

This 55-minute video can be used on its own or as an accompaniment to Chaitows book of the same name. Following an explanatory introduction to MET, Leon Chaitow then demonstrates its clinical use in the assessment and treatment of the following muscles:

Rectus femoris and psoas

Tensor fascia lata

Piriformis

Quadratus lumborum

Pectoralis major

Latissimus dorsi

Upper trapezius

Scalenes and sternocleidomastoid

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!, October 14, 2000

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Denise Masker (Manchester, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Muscle Energy Techniques (Advanced Soft Tissue Techniques) (Paperback)

This is the best book I've come across for introducing a novice to the concepts and practice of MET. Chaitow's other books tend to go into very minute detail about the nervous system component of these techniques. This book is very well ordered and the assessments and techniques don't get lost in the minutae. HIs very clear presentation of the far-reaching effects of dysfunction in one part of the body is excellent. If you are interested in these techniques, this is the book! You can then follow up with his other books on the subject, especially Soft Tissue Manipulations. I'm using this book in a medical massage program in which I am an instructor.

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A little goldmine, April 16, 2002

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Julie Harm (Wollongong, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Muscle Energy Techniques (Paperback)

I teach massage therapy here in Australia. Often, students will ask about books they should buy in order to become better therapists, and this is one that I always happily recommend. The techniques are well explained and relatively easy to apply. What's more they are safe, as well as beautifully effective. Anyone interested in improving their results with bodywork should have a look at this (and most of Chaitow's work, as far as I am concerned!).

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MET's Simplified, June 27, 2006

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Tree (NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Muscle Energy Techniques (Paperback)

What a fantastic book! I am a massage therapist in Australia and wish I had known about this book whilst I was in training. The content is written in a way that makes it very easy to understand. I have also found techniques that work much better than the ones I was taught in class. Well done Leon!