The Conception of Subluxation Explored

Started by Hume O'Rous Dec 7, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Foundations of Chiropractic:Subluxation (2nd Edition)Meridel Gatterman Published by Elsevier Mosby ISBN 0-323-02648-6What’s in a word? According to the physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes;                        ‘A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged             it is the skin of a living thought and may vary in color             and content according to the circumstances and time,             in which it is used’.Subluxation: aberrant motion, acute joint lock, dysarthritic…Continue

Tags: PNS, 'neuromechanical, unit', ANS, reflex'

On Becoming A Person

Started by jimmymorris. Last reply by jimmymorris Nov 4, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes

 A Therapist's View on Psychotherapy, by Carl R Rogers First published in 1967, this book will be somewhat outdated. Despite this, I gained fantastic insight into how the Master psychotherapist developed effective Therapist-Client relationships. A favourite excerpt: 'I believe it will become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the…Continue

Tibetan Medicine - by Tom Dummer

Started by Ronan O'Brien Jul 10, 2011. 0 Replies 1 Like

Tom Dummer, the author of Tibetan Medicine and Other Holistic Health-Care Systems, is perhaps better known for being the Inaugural Principal of the European School of Osteopathy (1974) and one of his other works the Textbook of Osteopathy. Dummer's extensive background in herbalism, naturopathy, osteopathy and later Tibetan Buddhism gave rise to the writing  of this book, as an introduction…Continue

Tags: book review, book, tom dummer, tibetan medicine

The Science and Clinical Application of Manual Therapy–A New Scope for Practice?

Started by Hume O'Rous May 15, 2011. 0 Replies 3 Likes

 The Science and Clinical Application of Manual TherapyKing H., Jänig W., Patterson M., (Editors)Churchill LivingstoneISBN: 978 0 7020 3387 2   …Continue

Tags: Thomas Lundberg, viscero-somatic, ANS, EBM, osteopathic philosophy

Biochemical Imbalances in Disease-A Practitioners Handbook

Started by Hume O'Rous Oct 9, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Biochemical Imbalances in Disease-A Practitioners HandbookEdited by Lorraine Nicolle & Ann Woodriff BeirneSinging Dragon PublishersISBN: 978 1848190337This text has been written by two experts in the field of Functional Medicine, a field which has been rapidly developing within science over the last four decades. Functional medicine recognizes the concept of biochemical individuality as first described by Roger Williams who provided evidence to suggest that each of us has a unique genetic…Continue

Tags: Physiology, Detoxification, Dysbiosis, Functional Medicine

Holism and Complementary Medicine-Origins and Principles

Started by Hume O'Rous. Last reply by Hume O'Rous Jul 26, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Holism and Complementary Medicine is the author’s personal interpretation of what complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) means today and explores where its roots lie. He offers us a tangible and distinct history of alternative medicine as opposed to biomedicine, its orthodox successor. He believes that CAM’s…Continue

Tags: functional medicine, Vitalism, naturopathic philosophy, Johannes von Goethe, Maude Barlow

Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists

Started by Hume O'Rous Jul 23, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Clinical Reasoning for Manual TherapistsMark Jones & Darren RiverPublisher: Butterworth-HeinemannISBN-13: 978-0750639064The authors have written an exceptionally well produced text for physiotherapists, osteopaths and other manual therapists on the art of clinical reasoning and following a diagnostic plan through to a conclusion. I like this approach to clinical management and have read other published work by the authors who make their position clear on all aspects of the consultation…Continue

Tags: clinical findings, Manual Therapy, Differential Diagnosis

Do our minds really work as well as we'd like them to?

Started by Hume O'Rous Jul 11, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Mistakes Were Made (and not by me):Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful actsCarol Javris and Elliot AronsonHarcourt PublishersISBN: 978-0-15-101098-1Mistakes Were Made (and not by me), has been written by two authors with backgrounds in social psychology and fuelled by a particular interest in cognitive dissonance, where the brain tries to reconcile two contrasting viewpoints–in an attempt to maintain a sense of overall personal integrity. Exemplars of cognitive bias (do…Continue

Tags: evolutionary psychology, social psychology, cognitive dissonance, personal integrity

Superb Textbook on Nutrition for Osteopaths & Naturopaths

Started by Hume O'Rous Jun 16, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Food and Nutrition (2nd Edition)Mark WahlqvistAllen and Unwin PublishersISBN: 987 1 86508 692 7When I read the layout of this textbook and skim read a couple of the chapters that looked interesting (due to their novel subject material), I was hooked. Rarely has a book on nutrition been edited with such profound vision. It asks some really pertinent questions about the food chain and human health. Subjects like  Food Law, Food Composition and Processing and Nutrition and Cancer are never covered…Continue

Tags: Green Movement, Geoff Tansey, Nutritional Medicine, McCarrison Society

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Breathing Pattern Disorders

Started by Hume O'Rous Apr 8, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Breathing Pattern Disorders by Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley and …Continue

Tags: yoga, bodywork, OMT, respiration, yellow flags