This book shows how manual therapy - massage, osteopathy, chiropractic, physiotherapy, manual medicine - can help relieve pain. Includes: 1. What Is Manual Therapy? 2. Body Mechanics 3. Methods of Treatment 4. General 'Mechanical' Disorders 5. The Spine 6. Head and Neck Pain 7. The Thoracic Spine and Chest 8. The Lower Back 9. Arm Pain 10. Leg Pain
The Science Beyond the Controversy Institute of Medicine, Janet Joy, Alison Mack. become dependent on illicit drugs than are women. The risk of drug dependence for white Americans is approximately double that for African Americans.
Better data are needed to help shape efforts, especially on the groups of people currently underdiagnosed and undertreated, and the IOM encourages federal and state agencies and private organizations to accelerate the collection of data on ...
Most of the natural methods I describe in this book cost nothing near what you would pay for medical procedures or pain prescriptions. Neither does this book have the side-effects nor the dangers of traditional medicine.
The Scottsdale Pain Relief Program: The Revolutionary Seven Day Drug-free Program to Reduce Pain
This book details a range of approaches from basic implant therapies to more advanced therapies, making it an ideal companion to an advanced training program in interventional pain management and a useful resource for developing a team that ...
But for many of Portenoy's patients , pain thrived as though it had a life of its own , outlasting the injury or illness that had first caused it . In the face of treatment , it often proved resistant , or intractable .
This text also explores the latest evolving techniques and appropriate utilization of modern equipment and technology to safely provide care.
The text is enhanced by the wide use of illustrations, including amazing color 3D-CT images that enable you to easily visualize anatomy. The first part of the book gives the fundamentals you need for modern pain practice.
Focused primarily on the management of chronic pain, the book covers the major chronic pain conditions in the head and neck, spine, and extremities.
Trigger point inactivation followed by stretching is more effective than trigger point inactivation alone, but stretching without prior inactivation can actually increase trigger point sensitivity (Edwards and Knowles 2003).