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Soft Tissue Release is a clear, concise, and practical book that guides you in understanding and applying the three types of soft tissue release (STR): passive (clients do not help), active assisted (clients and therapists work together), and active (clients do it on their own). Rather than focus on the specific purposes of soft tissue release, this text provides basic information about the therapy and prepares readers to perform the techniques. The result is a text that professionals and studen...

This useful book discusses craniosacral therapy’s history and present situation as well as its spiritual implications and practical contributions in the world of healthcare. Gilchrist demonstrates how the subtle patterns of this practice become a dynamic force in the body, and how this influences overall functioning. What most sets the book apart is Gilchrist’s discussion of the relationship of the craniosacral system and biodynamic functions to the human energy system. Though dealing with a com...

Your Upper Body, Your Yoga is the highly anticipated final book of the Your Body, Your Yoga trilogy — the definitive investigation of how your uniqueness affects your movements, postures and your yoga. This remarkable trilogy looks at the variations of human anatomy and its effect on the body’s biomechanics. Used as a standard text for many yoga teacher training programs it provides yoga students and teachers a system for exploring what asanas are possible and sensible and which postures should...

Presents a scientific and challenging method for achieving the ultimate physique. Tudor Bompa - the exercise scientist who pioneered the concept of periodization - and Lorenzo Cornaccia, present a six-phase training programme that maximizes both strength and muscle definition.

Newly updated, Cram Session in Goniometry and Manual Muscle Testing: A Handbook for Students & Clinicians, Second Edition is a descriptive quick reference guide for rehabilitation professionals organized in a “head-to-toe” format, including more than 400 photographs and supplemented with concise and illustrative examples of various techniques.  The new edition of this text maintains the original essence of the first edition while touching upon updated information to speak to new clinicians. Min...

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Es ist leider eine Tatsache: Mit zunehmendem Alter baut der menschliche Koerper ab. Ein unebener Boden, falsches Schuhwerk oder eine kleine Unachtsamkeit genugen manchmal schon, um altere Menschen ins Straucheln zu bringen. Die Folgen sind oft Sturze mit schmerzhaften und langwierigen Verletzungen, wie zum Beispiel Knochenbruchen. Hier setzt das LiFE Programm an. Es steht fur Lebensstil-integrierte funktionelle UEbungen und wurde an der Universitat von Sydney erstellt, um die koerperliche Fitnes...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.