A Manual Therapist's Guide to Movement: Teaching Motor Skills to the Orthopaedic Patient

by Gordon Browne and Gordon Browne

Here's the only available book that examines the use of non-traditional movement systems, especially the Feldenkrais Method and Tai Chi, in the physical therapy setting to treat orthopaedic conditions/injuries. These systems represent a style of internal exercise designed to increase the patient's self awareness and attention to proprioceptive detail, emphasizing integrated or whole body patterns of movement and the use of movement constraints that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443102163
• ISBN13: 9780443102165
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 7.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 10.9"