Part of the Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Series, this comprehensive resource offers brief, yet thorough coverage of alternative and complementary hands-on therapies, including Chiropractic, Healing Touch/Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, and massage. Focusing on manipulative techniques and their therapeutic applications to common and un-common disorders, it addresses both Eastern and Western approaches to the discipline. Ideal for comparing and contrasting the various forms of manual therapeutics, it describes the basic philosophy and theories of the different methods, as well as the techniques themselves. It also provides an overview of the principal manual therapies practiced worldwide, the theories and rationale behind them, and practice algorithms.A volume in the Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Series Principles and Practice of Manual Therapeutics provides comprehensive coverage of the full array of manipulative techniques and their therapeutic applications to common and un-common diseases and/or syndromes. As a volume in a series of books concerning complementary and alternative medicine, Principles and Practices of Manual Therapeutics deals exclusively with the most commonly used forms of manual therapeutics. The book is an overview of the principal manual therapies practiced worldwide, the theories and rationales, and practice algorithms, with contacts and resources for further study. The techniques utilized in more traditional Western therapies (e.g., physiatry, physical therapy), while using many of the principles of "complementary" therapies, will not be included in this volume due to their conventional nature. The overall goal of the book is to give the reader brief, yet thorough, coverage of alternative and complementary hands-on therapies. (Product Description) sdarticle......Page 1 sdarticle_001......Page 2 sdarticle_002......Page 4 sdarticle_003......Page 5 sdarticle_004......Page 7 sdarticle_005......Page 8 sdarticle_006......Page 9 sdarticle_007......Page 12 sdarticle_008......Page 13 sdarticle_009......Page 36 sdarticle_010......Page 60 sdarticle_011......Page 79 sdarticle_012......Page 99 sdarticle_013......Page 110 sdarticle_014......Page 120 sdarticle_015......Page 129 sdarticle_026......Page 149 sdarticle_027......Page 163 sdarticle_028......Page 173 sdarticle_039......Page 181 sdarticle_040......Page 190 sdarticle_041......Page 204 sdarticle_042......Page 219 Provides a coverage of manipulative techniques and their therapeutic applications to common and un-common diseases and/or syndromes. This book deals with the commonly used forms of manual therapeutics. It is an overview of the manual therapies practiced worldwide, the theories and rationales, and practice algorithms with contacts and resources.
