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Soft Tissue Manipulation
A Practitioner's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Soft-Tissue Dysfunction and Reflex Activity - 4th edition,

(Healing Arts Press, Vermont)
ISBN: 0-89281-276-1
Hardcover Book. 272 pages
70 two-color illustrations

This groundbreaking text 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.

Contents include:

  • Somatic dysfunction – the soft tissue component
  • Diagnostic methods
  • Techniques and Index of neurolymphatic reflexes
  • Basic spinal neuromuscular techniques
  • Muscle energy techniques
  • Strain-counterstrain (Tender point) technique
  • Postural and Emotional considerations
  • NMT in clinical use
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 , Past President, American Massage Therapy Association

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