BOOK
E-Book - Clinical Application of Neuromuscular Techniques, Volume 1
(2008)
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Abstract
The book discusses theories and physiology relevant to the manual treatment of chronic pain, especially as it regards the soft tissues of the upper body. Step-by-step protocols that address each muscle of a region and a regional approach to treatment are features that make this book unique. A structural review of each region, including ligaments and functional anatomy, adds value for new students and practitioners alike.
- Comprehensive ‘one-stop’ text on care of somatic pain and dysfunction
- Designed and written to meet the needs of those working with neuromuscular dysfunction in a variety of professions
- All muscles covered from perspective of assessment & treatment of myofascial pain
- Describes the normal anatomy and physiology as well as the dysfunctions which may arise
- Gives indications for treatments and guidance on making the appropriate treatment choice for each patient
- Combines NMT, MET, PR and much more to give a variety of treatment options for each case
- Describes the different NMT techniques in relation to the joint anatomy involved
- Practical step-by-step technique descriptions
- Includes not only manual techniques but also acupuncture, hydrotherapies and nutritional support as well as guidance for the patient in the use of self-help approaches
- Two-color format
- Up-to-date evidence based content
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Cover | ||
| Clinical Application of Neuromuscular Techniques: The Upper Body | v | ||
| Copyright Page | vi | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| List of boxes | xv | ||
| Foreword | xvii | ||
| Preface to the Second Edition | xix | ||
| Acknowledgments | xxi | ||
| Chapter 1. Connective tissue and the fascial system | 1 | ||
| THE FASCIAL NETWORK | 2 | ||
| FASCIA AND PROPRIOCEPTION | 2 | ||
| FASCIA: COLLAGENOUS CONTINUITY | 2 | ||
| FURTHER FASCIAL CONSIDERATIONS | 2 | ||
| ELASTICITY | 3 | ||
| CONNECTIVE TISSUE AS A ‘SPONGE’ | 6 | ||
| DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS | 6 | ||
| HYPERMOBILITY AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE | 7 | ||
| TRIGGER POINTS, FASCIA AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM | 8 | ||
| SUMMARY OF FASCIAL AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE FUNCTION | 13 | ||
| FASCIAL DYSFUNCTION | 16 | ||
| RESTORING GEL TO SOL | 17 | ||
| A DIFFERENT MODEL LINKING TRAUMA AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE | 17 | ||
| THERAPEUTIC SEQUENCING | 19 | ||
| Chapter 2. Muscles | 23 | ||
| DYNAMIC FORCES – THE ‘STRUCTURAL CONTINUUM’ | 23 | ||
| SIGNALS | 25 | ||
| ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT MUSCLES | 25 | ||
| TYPES OF MUSCLE | 25 | ||
| ENERGY PRODUCTION IN NORMAL TISSUES | 27 | ||
| ENERGY PRODUCTION IN THE DECONDITIONED INDIVIDUAL | 28 | ||
| MUSCLES AND BLOOD SUPPLY | 28 | ||
| MOTOR CONTROL AND RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS | 31 | ||
| MAJOR TYPES OF VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION | 33 | ||
| TERMINOLOGY | 33 | ||
| MUSCLE TONE AND CONTRACTION | 33 | ||
| VULNERABLE AREAS | 34 | ||
| MUSCLE TYPES | 34 | ||
| COOPERATIVE MUSCLE ACTIVITY | 35 | ||
| MUSCLE SPASM, TENSION, ATROPHY | 37 | ||
| WHAT IS WEAKNESS? | 39 | ||
| TRICK PATTERNS | 39 | ||
| WHEN SHOULD PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION BE LEFT ALONE? | 40 | ||
| SOMATIZATION – MIND AND MUSCLES | 41 | ||
| Chapter 3. Reporting stations and the brain | 45 | ||
| PROPRIOCEPTION | 45 | ||
| REFLEX MECHANISMS | 47 | ||
| NEUROMUSCULAR DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING INJURY (Ryan 1994) | 51 | ||
| MECHANISMS THAT ALTER PROPRIOCEPTION | 52 | ||
| AN EXAMPLE OF PROPRIOCEPTIVE DYSFUNCTION | 52 | ||
| NEURAL INFLUENCES | 53 | ||
| THERAPEUTIC REHABILITATION USING REFLEX SYSTEMS | 59 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 60 | ||
| Chapter 4. Causes of musculoskeletal dysfunction | 63 | ||
| ADAPTATION – GAS AND LAS | 63 | ||
| POSTURE, RESPIRATORY FUNCTION AND THE ADAPTATION PHENOMENON | 64 | ||
| MAKING SENSE OF THE PICTURE | 67 | ||
| POSTURAL AND EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES ON MUSCULOSKELETAL DYSFUNCTION | 69 | ||
| POSTURAL IMBALANCE AND THE DIAPHRAGM | 73 | ||
| RESPIRATORY INFLUENCES | 75 | ||
| ADDITIONAL EMOTIONAL FACTORS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DYSFUNCTION | 78 | ||
| SELECTIVE MOTOR UNIT INVOLVEMENT | 78 | ||
| CONCLUSION | 79 | ||
| Chapter 5. Patterns of dysfunction | 81 | ||
| UPPER CROSSED SYNDROME | 82 | ||
| LOWER CROSSED SYNDROME | 82 | ||
| LAYER (STRATIFICATION) SYNDROME | 83 | ||
| CHAIN REACTION LEADING TO FACIAL AND JAW PAIN: AN EXAMPLE | 84 | ||
| PATTERNS FROM HABITS OF USE | 84 | ||
| THE BIG PICTURE AND THE LOCAL EVENT | 85 | ||
| JANDA’S ‘PRIMARY AND SECONDARY’ RESPONSES | 85 | ||
| RECOGNIZING DYSFUNCTIONAL PATTERNS | 86 | ||
| FUNCTIONAL SCREENING SEQUENCE | 88 | ||
| BREATHING PATTERN ASSESSMENTS | 92 | ||
| TRIGGER POINT CHAINS | 94 | ||
| Chapter 6. Trigger points | 97 | ||
| ISCHEMIA AND MUSCLE PAIN | 101 | ||
| ISCHEMIA AND TRIGGER POINT EVOLUTION | 102 | ||
| ISCHEMIA AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME (FMS) | 103 | ||
| FMS AND MYOFASCIAL PAIN | 105 | ||
| FACILITATION – SEGMENTAL AND LOCAL | 105 | ||
| VARYING VIEWPOINTS ON TRIGGER POINTS | 109 | ||
| CENTRAL AND ATTACHMENT TRIGGER POINTS | 112 | ||
| PRIMARY, KEY AND SATELLITE TRIGGER POINTS | 112 | ||
| ACTIVE AND LATENT TRIGGER POINTS | 113 | ||
| ESSENTIAL AND SPILLOVER TARGET ZONES | 114 | ||
| TRIGGER POINTS AND JOINT RESTRICTION | 114 | ||
| TESTING AND MEASURING TRIGGER POINTS | 114 | ||
| CLINICAL FEATURES OF MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS | 118 | ||
| Chapter 7. The internal environment | 125 | ||
| LOCAL MYOFASCIAL INFLAMMATORY INFLUENCES | 125 | ||
| WHEN INFLAMMATION BECOMES GLOBAL | 131 | ||
| MUSCLES, JOINTS AND PAIN | 140 | ||
| SOURCE OF PAIN | 142 | ||
| NEUROTOXIC ELEMENTS AND NEUROPATHIC PAIN | 144 | ||
| WHEN SHOULD PAIN AND DYSFUNCTION BE LEFT ALONE? | 151 | ||
| PAIN MANAGEMENT | 154 | ||
| Chapter 8. Assessment, treatment and rehabilitation | 161 | ||
| NUMEROUS INFLUENCES | 162 | ||
| A BIOMECHANICAL EXAMPLE | 162 | ||
| ‘LOOSENESS AND TIGHTNESS’ AS PART OF THE BIOMECHANICAL MODEL | 163 | ||
| THREE-DIMENSIONAL PATTERNS | 165 | ||
| NEUROMUSCULAR MANAGEMENT OF SOFT TISSUE DYSFUNCTION | 166 | ||
| NUTRITION AND PAIN: A BIOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVE | 167 | ||
| PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS IN PAIN MANAGEMENT: THE COGNITIVE DIMENSION | 170 | ||
| GUIDELINES FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT | 171 | ||
| WELLNESS EDUCATION | 172 | ||
| GOAL SETTING AND PACING | 172 | ||
| Chapter 9. Modern neuromuscular techniques | 177 | ||
| NEUROMUSCULAR THERAPY – AMERICAN VERSION | 177 | ||
| EUROPEAN (LIEF’S) NEUROMUSCULAR TECHNIQUE (NMT) | 191 | ||
| Chapter 10. Associated therapeutic modalities and techniques | 205 | ||
| HYDROTHERAPY AND CRYOTHERAPY | 206 | ||
| INTEGRATED NEUROMUSCULAR INHIBITION TECHNIQUE (INIT) | 210 | ||
| LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE TECHNIQUES | 212 | ||
| McKENZIE METHOD® | 213 | ||
| MASSAGE | 215 | ||
| MOBILIZATION AND ARTICULATION | 217 | ||
| MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUES (MET) AND VARIATIONS | 218 | ||
| MYOFASCIAL RELEASE TECHNIQUES (MFR) | 221 | ||
| NEURAL MOBILIZATION OF ADVERSE MECHANICAL OR NEURAL TENSION | 223 | ||
| POSITIONAL RELEASE TECHNIQUES (PRT) (Chaitow 1996a) | 225 | ||
| REHABILITATION | 230 | ||
| RELAXATION METHODS | 231 | ||
| RHYTHMIC (OSCILLATORY, VIBRATIONAL, HARMONIC) METHODS | 231 | ||
| SPRAY AND STRETCH FOR TRIGGER POINT TREATMENT | 233 | ||
| ADDITIONAL STRETCHING TECHNIQUES | 235 | ||
| USING MULTIPLE THERAPIES | 236 | ||
| Chapter 11. The cervical region | 243 | ||
| THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN: A STRUCTURAL WONDER | 244 | ||
| MOVEMENTS OF THE CERVICAL SPINE | 250 | ||
| ASSESSMENT OF THE CERVICAL REGION | 253 | ||
| CERVICAL TREATMENT: SEQUENCING | 273 | ||
| Chapter 12. The cranium | 325 | ||
| CRANIAL STRUCTURE | 326 | ||
| NMT TREATMENT TECHNIQUES FOR THE CRANIUM | 351 | ||
| Chapter 13. Shoulder, arm and hand | 399 | ||
| STRUCTURE | 401 | ||
| ASSESSMENT | 407 | ||
| TREATMENT | 429 | ||
| ELBOW | 485 | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ELBOW TREATMENT | 485 | ||
| STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION | 485 | ||
| EVALUATION | 487 | ||
| RANGES OF MOTION OF THE ELBOW | 488 | ||
| INDICATIONS FOR TREATMENT (DYSFUNCTIONS/SYNDROMES) | 489 | ||
| TREATMENT | 493 | ||
| FOREARM, WRIST AND HAND | 498 | ||
| FOREARM | 499 | ||
| WRIST AND HAND | 499 | ||
| PHALANGES | 508 | ||
| THUMB | 511 | ||
| PREPARING FOR TREATMENT | 511 | ||
| ANTERIOR FOREARM TREATMENT | 513 | ||
| POSTERIOR FOREARM TREATMENT | 522 | ||
| INTRINSIC HAND MUSCLE TREATMENT | 529 | ||
| Chapter 14. The thorax | 539 | ||
| STRUCTURE | 540 | ||
| POSTERIOR THORAX | 541 | ||
| ANTERIOR THORAX | 550 | ||
| THORACIC TREATMENT TECHNIQUES | 557 | ||
| Index | 579 | ||
| ELSEVIER CD-ROM LICENCE AGREEMENT | 596 |