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Posture : types, assessment and control
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ISBN: 1628084774 9781628084771 9781613241073 1613241070 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science,

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Posture : types, exercises and health effects
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ISBN: 9781631172540 1631172549 1631172522 9781631172526 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Nova Biomedical,

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This book presents an overview of human posture and focuses on how it can be influenced by a number of sporting and physical activities as well as biomechanical, physiological, and psycho-sociological factors. It presents a range of chapters that discuss various assessment protocols to posture and details how certain approaches such as yoga, postural chain theory, and pilates can be integrated into various management programs. It brings together invited contributions from across the world and from authors who are experts in their specific field. This book is intended for those who have an interest in posture and how it influences function, pathology and treatment. It will appeal to students and clinicians of physical therapy, orthopedics, rehabilitation, osteopathy, podiatry and others involved in the study and management of posture.--


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Muscles and meridians : the manipulation of shape
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ISBN: 0702048690 0702031097 9780702031090 9780702048692 Year: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone,

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Developing a coherent model of human movement is a core value to many manual therapists. Beach proposes the Contractile Field (CF) model, which decodes the traditional Chinese meridian map, promotes a new approach to exercise, and is of great value in understanding and treating musculoskeletal distress.

A sense of dance : exploring your movement potential
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ISBN: 0873224760 9780873224765 Year: 1996 Publisher: Champaign Human kinetics

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Written in a conversational tone, this interactive text will inspire you to develop creative thinking, reasoning skills, and self-expression. Through the use of examples and exercises based on nonstudio experiences, you'll learn how to translate your life experiences into the art of dance. In this book you'll find important information on the ways we use our bodies to be expressive, how we instinctively apply the elements of dance in daily life, dance exploration basics and the elements of movement, how to develop your own dance perceptions and creative resources, and how to translate your perceptions into dance


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Dining posture in ancient Rome : bodies, values, and status
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ISBN: 9780691124575 0691124574 Year: 2006

Meaning in motion : new cultural studies of dance
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ISBN: 0822319365 082231942X 9780822319429 Year: 1997 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,


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Postural assessment.
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ISBN: 9781450400961 Year: 2012 Publisher: Champaign (Ill.) Human kinetics

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This title is the latest addition to the bestselling "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" series! "Postural Assessment" is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to assessing posture, with tips that will enable you to perform your observations in a confident and competent manner. This book focuses on what posture reveals about the relationships among various body parts so that you can be better informed about whether such relationships are causing or contributing to pain or discomfort. The emphasis is on the assessment of static posture in standing and seated positions. This is the latest book by Jane Johnson in the "Hands-On Guides for Therapists" and is written for complete beginners in the use of postural assessment as an examination tool which will generate ideas about what to look for, how to identify common postural forms and how to make sense of your observations. This title is featured at sport medicine events throughout the UK and Europe. Mailing of this title is to medicine and rehabilitation professionals. E-mail marketing campaign to contacts interested in medicine and rehabilitation. This title is also featured in Human Kinetics' monthly "Academic E-Newsletter" sent to over 8,000 subscribers, and on Human Kinetics' Health & Fitness Blog.


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