Chronic Pelvic Pain and Dysfunction: Practical Physical Medicine Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chaitow, Leon (Author), Lovegrove Jones, Ruth Dr (Author), Chaitow, Sasha (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0702035327 ISBN-13: 9780702035326 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Allied Health Services - Physical Therapy - Medical | Surgery - General |
Dewey: 617.55 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7.4" W x 9.6" (2.00 lbs) 12 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Edited by Leon Chaitow and Ruth Lovegrove, this clearly written and fully illustrated multi-contributor volume offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the subject area accompanied by a range of video clips. Covering all aspects of current diagnosis and management, this new book is suitable for physiotherapists, osteopathic physicians and osteopaths, medical pain specialists, urologists, urogynaecologists, chiropractors, manual therapists, acupuncturists, massage therapists and naturopaths worldwide. ..a welcome addition to the library of any physiotherapist who encounters patients with pelvic pain. Reviewed by Anne Graham on behalf of Physiotherapy Practice and Research, October 2015
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Contributor Bio(s): Chaitow, Leon: - Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner's Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.Jones, Ruth: - Dr Ruth Lovegrove Jones combines the disciplines of international research, writing and education alongside her role as a clinician. She is the author of over 20 peer reviewed articles and is a reviewer for a number of medical journals. She has given over 30 keynote or invited presentations at interdisciplinary meetings in 15 countries and provides professional education in pain, pelvic floor and movement sciences to medical and health practitioners. She has worked in private practice for the last 20 years, establishing a multidisciplinary clinic for pain management, sports medicine and pelvic floor rehabilitation working with elite athletes as well as the more sedentary type. She has a particular interest in chronic pain & the management of complicated pain patients who've "been there...done that". She was awarded a PhD from University of Southampton, UK working collaboratively with a team of urologists, physicists and engineers at Stanford University, California, USA to evaluate the dynamic function of the pelvic floor muscles in women using 2D ultrasound and novel image processing methods. |