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Soft-Tissue Manipulation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Soft Tissue Dysfunction and Reflex Activity
  
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Soft-Tissue Manipulation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Soft Tissue Dysfunction and Reflex Activity [Hardcover]

Leon Chaitow (Author)


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June 1987
Dr. Chaitow provides practitioners and students with a working knowledge of the diagnostic and therapeutic use of neuro-muscular, muscle energy and strain-counterstrain techniques, and covers a number of additional individual techniques and systems involving reflex points and trigger points.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.


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"A completely up-to-date and indispensable textbook for students and therapists of all schools."
(American Journal of Acupuncture )

"Chaitow is a visionary in bringing together different alternative and complementary health systems and points of view into a form that offers new therapeutic possibilities."
(Robert King, American Massage Therapy Association ) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Leon Chaitow is a practicing osteopath, naturopath, and acupuncturist who has served as director of postgraduate studies at the British Naturopathic and Osteopathic College and as consulting editor to the Journal of Alternative Medicine. He is the author of several books on health and alternative medicine for both lay and professional readers including The Acupuncture Treatment of Pain, Amino Acids in Therapy, and Candida Albicans. He also lectures internationally. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Thorsons (June 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0722514611
  • ISBN-13: 978-0722514610
  • Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,741,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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muscle energy technique, applied kinesiology, triple heater, alarm points, heart constrictor, muscle energy methods, hyperalgesic skin zones, neurolymphatic reflexes, shortened musculature, tight low back muscles, isolytic contraction, connective tissue zones, flexion strains, neurovascular points, rectal sheath, muscle energy techniques, somatic dysfunction, postural integrity, abdominal technique, post isometric relaxation, operator resists, soft tissue dysfunction, connective tissue massage, isometric effort, intertransverse space
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Neuro-muscular Technique, Stanley Lief, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Academy of Applied Osteopathy Yearbook, Lawrence Jones, Manipulative Therapy, Churchill Livingstone, Boris Chaitow, Area Anterior Figure Posterior Figure, New York, Large Intestine, British Naturopathic Journal, Patient Care, Mobilisation of the Spine
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